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29-01-2015, 12:34 PM | #26 | |||
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See.. it's people of colour, not coloured people ben! god ben you're so stoopid.
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29-01-2015, 12:58 PM | #27 | |||
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So let me get this straight... He was highlighting the unfairness in the industry for black actors. And in doing that he used the word coloured... and that's the thing that's got the attention? If he didn't use it as an insult and he was highlighting an injustice for black actors, maybe they should cut him some slack.
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29-01-2015, 01:31 PM | #28 | ||
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So how we gonna know when 'black' becomes a racist term?When we get the police knocking at the door because we said a racist word?He did'nt say ****** fgs.I might just decide to be offended by being called white,I am clearly a mixture of pink and brown and maybe a touch of white.I now wish to called 'multicoloured'.
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29-01-2015, 02:01 PM | #29 | |||
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Blackboard............Chalkboard Blacklist................Blocklist Blackballed............Ballotballed Blackmailed............Extorted So the word Black is slowly being removed from our lexicon Political correctness gone ...MAD !!! .
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29-01-2015, 02:19 PM | #30 | |||
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Coloured is very offensive, but he was coming from a good place tbf and just didn't know better.
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29-01-2015, 02:20 PM | #31 | |||
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I cant even be bothered to answer this.
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29-01-2015, 02:22 PM | #32 | |||
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His apology was very genuine and everybody seems to have moved on. If you dont think the word colored in offensive then sorry but no one cares. It went out of date ages and if you missed it then too bad.
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29-01-2015, 02:25 PM | #33 | |||
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I consider this a be an actual racist comment. The term 'chip on the shoulder' was used during the civil right movement to highlight blacks who were not acting in the way some wanted them to. Are the chip on shoulder brigade uppity too?
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29-01-2015, 02:26 PM | #34 | |||
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29-01-2015, 02:27 PM | #35 | |||
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29-01-2015, 02:28 PM | #36 | |||
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I remember when I was a lad being told I had a chip on my shoulder. Its an old expression that was often used again if f you;ve not heard of it then you're not as clued up as you think.
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29-01-2015, 02:29 PM | #37 | |||
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Not you thats for sure.
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29-01-2015, 02:29 PM | #38 | |||
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I've obviously heard that expression before but never knew where it came from
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29-01-2015, 02:31 PM | #39 | |||
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I find it strange that you dont accept language has changed. Ten years ago words like meme were hardly used but now everyone knows what that is./ Languages change and if you;re not up with the changes then you need to try a little harder.
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29-01-2015, 02:32 PM | #40 | |||
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29-01-2015, 02:33 PM | #41 | |||
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I am aware language is fluid but I asked who decided it and why
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29-01-2015, 02:33 PM | #42 | |||
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Heres a test for you - tell a black person that he has a chip on his shoulder and see how he responds.. I'll pay your hospital bills for you Just cus you aint heard of it dont mean sh*t to anyone.
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29-01-2015, 02:36 PM | #43 | |||
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40years rears ago word like electricity were hardly used. You seem to accept the new words but have a real problem letting go of the old offensive word.
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29-01-2015, 02:40 PM | #44 | |||
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“ Master Shipwright and his Assistant, Chatham Dockyard, to Navy Board, 17 June 1756. On Tuesday a petition was brought to the Honourable Thomas Cooper, Esq., Commissioner of this yard, by John Bissenden and Robert Woodriff, shipwrights, in behalf of the whole body of shipwrights, relating to their carrying chips out of the yard on their shoulders. The next day the Commissioner sent for them in the presence of the Master Shipwright and the First Assistant and represented to them the ill consequence of such proceedings, and read to them your Honourable Board's warrant of the 4 May 1753 on which the said two men withdrew the petition and said they would talk to all the people and believe everybody would be satisfied with what had been said to them. And in the afternoon the Master Shipwright sent for all the foremen and quartermen and read the Order to them of the 4th May 1753, and give every quarterman a particular charge to tell all his men separately what the order was relating to their lowering their chips and carrying them under their arm out of the yard. This day at twelve of the clock some few of the workmen about one hundred and fifty came up first to the gate without any chips, afterwards about twenty more came and lowered their chips agreeable to the Board's warrant. Then came John Miller, shipwright, about thirty feet before the main body of the people, on which the Master Shipwright ordered him to lower his chips. He answered he would not, with that the Master Shipwright took hold of him, and said he should. He, the said Miller replied, 'Are not the chips mine? I will not lower them.' Immediately the main body pushed on with their chips on their shoulders, crowded and forced the Master Shipwright and the First Assistant through the gateway, and when out of the yard give three huzzas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_on_shoulder Hopefully a black person that you speak of will be a bit better educated and not some aggressive oaf who attacks people for figures of speak like in your myopic world |
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29-01-2015, 02:41 PM | #45 | |||
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29-01-2015, 02:43 PM | #46 | |||
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I know where the origin of the word comes too but back in the day it was an expression that was often used like uppity to describe a black person who was not behaving in the way that others wanted him to behave.
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29-01-2015, 02:45 PM | #47 | |||
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Perhaps you need to look at your peer group and reassess?
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29-01-2015, 02:45 PM | #48 | |||
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Who decided that we use the word troll or meme? You find out on your own but you dont want to know.
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29-01-2015, 02:48 PM | #49 | |||
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No need to reassess I speaking from personal experience.
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29-01-2015, 02:50 PM | #50 | |||
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Wow.........looks like I stirred up a hornets nest by using the term "chip on the shoulder"
We are moving through the age of racism into the age of equality in race,religion,colour and sexuality but I agree we still have a way to go. But racism is a two way thing, if non black people see a black person and actually see a person (with a slightly darker tone to their skin) then that's fine ,BUT the black person has to see a person (with slightly lighter blanched skin) also. Not a closet colonial slave master intent on subjugating or oppressing that person. Black people especially young black people need to step up also and see that most people now don't give a fig about a person's skin colour. The chip needs to come off the shoulder now, and all sides need to move on and not be offended when an innocent word is taken out of context and the user suddenly facing accusations of racism. ridiculous really........... .
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