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Old 17-01-2016, 05:32 AM #35
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...'ghetto' can't not be more potentially offensive than the c word because of it's association with black history of segregation, whereas with the c word, it's a personal thing as to whether it's more offensive terminology than anything else that was meant as an insult because in the context that they were both said, they were being used to express anger and to insult...I do honestly think though, looking back on it and after Megan calmed down and was spoken to by BB...she hadn't connected the meaning of it, so for her wasn't meant as a racist thing...so although it was right that BB warned her, it's an intentional thing as well..?../which I don't think she had..I think I've seen Aisleyne mentioned through this in that she had described herself as something like a 'ghetto chick' or whatever and that must never have been picked up on by BB or the public...well, if we always take out intent and literal meaning with things...then she surely would have also been being racist because she's white so has never been historically subjected to segregation as a minority and so to attach that word to herself would be racist as well..(I think, I'm getting confused now....)..so a difficult one really/complicated...I'm no fan of Megan at all and I think that BB has to act on these things but I honestly don't think that she realised there was any more offence to using that word, than there was to using any of the other words she had used as insults....
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