[the_chosen_one]

Originally posted by GiRTh
First point, the fact that she used the word means that we can ask the question. I don't see her getting picked on. In fact she made a number of contentious statements before entering the house. Now that she's disgraced herself in this manner, people have the right to know. I don't think she is being subjected to hatred. I watched her interview on BBLB and was genuinely taken by her honesty.

Second point, as you pointed out, JR made a joke and as nodis has pointed out, he is the kind of performer who tries to push the boundaries. And yes, the term kike is officially defined as derogatory, so it is racism in full flow.

A baby's first word could happen to be 'kyke', but a baby could never make a racially derogatory statement.

Do you see what I'm getting at, racism in verbal form is about the content of statements, not about phonetics. Attacking these silly individual words doesn't stop racism. Educating people stops racism, which includes all these ignorant people hurling the word 'racist' around.

I'm not referring to you Girth, you have made some very solid arguments all over the forum, but some of our fellow posters are using this word 'racist' to hide behind their ignorance, when ignorance itself is what causes discrimination.