[Will.]

Which do you think is more offensive?

I was speaking to someone in nursery today whilst watching Finding Nemo and making cup cakes and they said they don't get why people are finding Gehtto that offensive, they said it's not that racist and C word is more offensive.

Thoughts?

I don't really have an opinion on it, although I guess C word is never a good term regardless of the content.

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Will.

I was speaking to someone in nursery today

I knew you were young Will but jeez

[Crimson Dynamo]

**** is a horrible word and degrades women

ghetto? - please

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by MB.

I knew you were young Will but jeez

I lost it

[bots]

the c word is almost common usage. Cant say I ever used or even been close to using ghetto, but it refers to a run down unlawful place to my thinking, and has no racial connotations to me anyway

[Northern Monkey]

Depends who you don't mind offending most women or black people.
Seriously though i've heard women say "prick" many a time.**** is fair game imo.Ghetto is in itself not a racist word.
I'd say **** is more jarring to the ear.You call someone a **** they know you mean business.So i vote for ****.
Megan was not racist but she was close.If she'd said 'black ****' then that would have been racist but.....She did'nt.

[chuff me dizzy]

The C word

[Crimson Dynamo]

can you imagine if she had called her a n word ****

I think that would have broke the internet more than Kims fat arse

it certainly would have killed twitter

[jet]

I have never associated the word ghetto with racism.

I associate the word **** with aggression and venom. So to me that's worse.

[hot2go]

Ghetto is an ideology or a place of high unemployment....news flash, you don't have to be a black person to be hard up or to like gangster rap.....to attribute the ghetto to racism is an insult to the black community .....of course it's not racist and Magan wasn't being racist either....she was commenting on Tiffanys style and image not on the colour of her skin......those who want to defend Tiffanys stupidity will have to do better than the racist card....sorry, that's too easy a cop out.

[Headie]

Lemme guess, the person you were taking to was white.

Both are offensive but the "ghetto" part is often categorised as a negative stereotype of black people, whereas the c word is just an insult in general

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Lemme guess, the person you were taking to was white.

Both are offensive but the "ghetto" part is often categorised as a negative stereotype of black people, whereas the c word is just an insult in general

so why do we only really hear black people using the word?

huh?

[hot2go]

The context in which the word ghetto is used can change its meaning where as the word **** is always offensive and aggressive when used to describe someone...it is possible to dislike a black or a white person and it have nothing at all to do with the colour of their skin...but if you call someone a **** then you pretty much think that person is a complete ****....LOL....

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Hayden

Lemme guess, the person you were taking to was white.

Both are offensive but the "ghetto" part is often categorised as a negative stereotype of black people, whereas the c word is just an insult in general

Actually the person wasn't white.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Jamie Foxx made an arse of himself the other night at the globes by taking faux offence at the word uttered by Tarantino

google it

[Withano]

Neither are offensive to me. Ghettos exist. **** means vagina. The only way ghetto can be deemed racist is if a person was to presume that all ghettos are built up of only one race, this is untrue and more offensive than the word itself.

[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.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by jet

I have never associated the word ghetto with racism.

I associate the word **** with aggression and venom. So to me that's worse.

..it is though Jet, it has a huge racist association and in the context that it was used..in anger..?..extremely offensive...there would never have been any 'ghettos', if black people had never been segregated and obviously they're associated with 'poverty/slum areas' as well because black people were discriminated in with employment also, so were very poor/struggled to have an earning...you can't live with white people, you can't work alongside white people, you can't share public transport with white people, you must live separately and etc and etc....and so the rise of the ghetto you could say. because where else was there..?...in the context it was said, while insulting Tiffany and in anger, it could not be perceived as anything other than extremely offensive and racist...the c word may offend some people but never ever with any historical associations of having been oppressed, so much less of an insult overall...

[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...

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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

Bless you Ammi, re-read my post. We are both saying the same thing.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

Bless you Ammi, re-read my post. We are both saying the same thing.

...oooops, I might need Specsavers I think Kirk......

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...oooops, I might need Specsavers I think Kirk......

Actually Ammi.....

Spoiler:

When DARE I disagree with you?

[Denver]

C U Next Tuesday Gemma fat arse

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Withano

Neither are offensive to me. Ghettos exist. **** means vagina. The only way ghetto can be deemed racist is if a person was to presume that all ghettos are built up of only one race, this is untrue and more offensive than the word itself.

but a ghetto is a place, not an adjective, and its use as an adjective is mostly by whiten people describing black people/culture. Like, nobody other than Tiffany would be called ghetto.

[Pete.]

Didn't Nikki use Ghetto to describe Aisleyne?