[Ammi]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

It is all about context. She WAS intending to be racist when she used the word and she realised her intention.

The word 'Ghetto' is no more offensive than the words 'Council house' - until they are used in a an intentionally derogotary manner:

Can the phrase; "Get back to your council house" BE anything other than insulting?

American blacks DO use the 'N' word as a term of endearment when talking to each other or about each other, but that very same word has far more offensive intent when used by a non-black person to describe a black person.

If one of my white English mates were enjoying a bowl of fried rice and I called him a Rice Cruncher" it means nothing - Zilch - but if I said that to a Chinese man eating the same dish, then it would have a whole new meaning and would cause offence.

There was simply NO other reason for Megan to use the word 'Ghetto', and to defend the indefensible is laughable

And I am no P.C. aficionado.

..it is though Kirk, because ghettos existed as a place of segregation...