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Originally Posted by Edna Mode
You clearly aren't able to grasp the concept of reclaiming words.
You know it was goddamn racist and your continued and almost obsessive hate towards her on this board is questionable in itself.
Do you understand that black people have had terms like this used against them, as a way of demeaning them, for hundreds of years.
First of all, the term "ghetto" in this case is being used in an American sense, not a European sense by referring to "ghetto" in a way to describe being "low class black."
Although Megan is British, we know she was using "ghetto" in its pop-culturally and culturally intended meaning, in which it's referring to African Americans of low income and class. She certainly wasn't referring to the Warsaw ghettos or anything like that. She was using the term in the eu promoted by popculture, in reference towards African Americans.
Now, with reclaiming a word. Think of it like this. If somebody tossed a water balloon at you every morning, reclaiming a word is grabbing that water ballon from them and holding it in your hand so that they can't hit you with it anymore and cause the same amount of water damage.
That's what reclaiming a word does. Now, that applies more to the use of the "n word" within Black communities rather than the term ghetto. Though some rappers use the term in reference to where they may have once grew up because it is true that many African Americans grow up in low income urban areas that would commonly be referred to as "the ghetto," this word being applied to Tiffany most certainly does have a racial connotation. Why?
1. Tiffany isn't from "the ghetto." She's from Utica. A small city near upstate New York State, a few miles away from mountains, wilderness, and forest.
2. Megan was clearly going to say "another word" before pausing for a minute and saying the c word. what was she going to say? Pause the video and look at her teeth, lips, and mouth. Now go to a mirror and make an n sound. Note the similarities.
She did use this word in a racial context. She was drunk, she was angry. Furthermore, I think she knew she got caught making a racial comment, hence why, after she did and security came in, she suddenly started begging everybody, "don't put this on Telly! You can't put it on telly!"
Yes, she said a word that has a racial connotation to it.
She was using it in a demeaning way to say that Tiffany was low class and black.
As someone who studies language as well as culture and pop culture for a living, I can assure you that that word was not said by Megan in a non-racial way.
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Do you understand that black people have had terms like this used against them, as a way of demeaning them, for hundreds of years.
How old are these people 200 years old?
I would imagine most black people under 40 have never heard it uttered by anyone apart from a black person