(September 24, 2016 at 8:29 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 24, 2016 at 7:29 pm)The_Empress Wrote: It's a horrible word, and while I mostly agree with you on this topic, it distracts me so much, I can't keep reading.
It is, isn't it? But I pretty much had it with people hiding behind not using that word if their every post oozes the desire to degrade people of color. So better call a spade a spade. I for one find it worse when someone wants to give themselves the air of being fair and balanced while doing the tap dance when being called out and asked why they singled out a particular country to make a moot point.
So, I rub it into their faces. Because that's what they'd like to say and what they feel, in every post they make on minorities. In fact, they actually say it. Maybe not using the word, which would be the honest approach, but in their choice of topics. Such as the - admittedly horrible - domestic, which probably wouldn't have made it into a thread if the perp hadn't been Nigerian. Otherwise we would be encouraged to discuss every domestic, and there are quite a lot. Horrible and less horrible. But if they are committed by red blooded and white colored males, they're not usually newsworthy for these fair and balanced persons.
Believe me: I get what you're saying. I just have a hard time getting past it when I see it just... sitting there.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.