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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2020, 05:46:35 AM »
Years ago watched an Oprah a segment on watermelon recipes. Oprah said a lot of black people wont eat watermelon because they don't want to be mocked for it. It's tragic people are so scarred by racism to feel self conscious about something as simple as enjoying a piece of fruit. Aren't people wonderful?

It's used in the US in a racist context.  And that's sure as shit the context meant here.

I did not know that.
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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2020, 06:11:44 AM »
Years ago watched an Oprah a segment on watermelon recipes. Oprah said a lot of black people wont eat watermelon because they don't want to be mocked for it. It's tragic people are so scarred by racism to feel self conscious about something as simple as enjoying a piece of fruit. Aren't people wonderful?

It's used in the US in a racist context.  And that's sure as shit the context meant here.

I did not know that.

FYI "Coon" is the British equivalent of the N-Word.  Reggie has used it a couple of times now.  If he did that in the street in the UK it would constitute a criminal offence and he knows it. 
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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2020, 07:10:44 AM »
The things you learn here.
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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2020, 07:32:57 AM »
Years ago watched an Oprah a segment on watermelon recipes. Oprah said a lot of black people wont eat watermelon because they don't want to be mocked for it. It's tragic people are so scarred by racism to feel self conscious about something as simple as enjoying a piece of fruit. Aren't people wonderful?

It's used in the US in a racist context.  And that's sure as shit the context meant here.

I did not know that.

FYI "Coon" is the British equivalent of the N-Word.  Reggie has used it a couple of times now.  If he did that in the street in the UK it would constitute a criminal offence and he knows it.
Also a term the KKK use in the south.
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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2020, 08:55:09 AM »
There's a sizable list of them.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2020, 08:56:41 AM »
FYI "Coon" is the British equivalent of the N-Word.  Reggie has used it a couple of times now.  If he did that in the street in the UK it would constitute a criminal offence and he knows it.

This site is hosted in the US where we have the 1st amendment that protects us from ridiculous, Orwellian laws like that.  :M

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #21 on: August 24, 2020, 09:12:36 AM »
Then I'd say it's hate speech and against the rules laid out in our host's TOS.

Since when is this nebulous thing called "hate speech" been against the host's TOS?

The history of this place is full of all kinds of hate being thrown around in many directions. Solieyu and even Lit in his early days were notorious racists but we tolerated them because this was first and foremost, a free speech site.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #22 on: August 24, 2020, 09:20:36 AM »
There's much more recent example.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2020, 09:21:32 AM »
There's much more recent example.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #24 on: August 24, 2020, 09:26:12 AM »
There's more recent examples of racial slurs than those members.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2020, 09:44:58 AM »
Yep, and several of them are probably from me.   :lol1:

I'm just anti-PC and don't give a fuck.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #26 on: August 24, 2020, 10:51:32 AM »
Tend to have a bit of compassion for people who seem to genuinely worry about accidentally doing or saying something to be perceived as racist. Since bigotry can sometimes be constructed around reading between the lines, it's probably not difficult to accidentally do. That must be stressful.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #27 on: August 24, 2020, 11:11:36 AM »
Yep, and several of them are probably from me.   :lol1:

I'm just anti-PC and don't give a fuck.

LENNY BRUCE IS NOT AFRAID!!!   :headbang2:

Yes you have towards me, twice.  :zoinks:

Trying to be edgy and anti-PC as a desperate attempt at being cool doesn't mean you get away with saying the N word, you stupid cunt. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence.

The only difference is that no one seems to call you out on it... which I find odd. I'd argue you'd need to be sinbinned all the same, just like Reggie.
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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #28 on: August 24, 2020, 11:42:44 AM »
Yep, and several of them are probably from me.   :lol1:

I'm just anti-PC and don't give a fuck.

LENNY BRUCE IS NOT AFRAID!!!   :headbang2:

Yes you have towards me, twice.  :zoinks:

Trying to be edgy and anti-PC as a desperate attempt at being cool doesn't mean you get away with saying the N word, you stupid cunt. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequence.

The only difference is that no one seems to call you out on it... which I find odd. I'd argue you'd need to be sinbinned all the same, just like Reggie.

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Re: i try every day to be a wonderful person
« Reply #29 on: August 24, 2020, 11:46:46 AM »
Joined a decade ago with the full realization bigotry is tolerated in multiple forms, and since then that perception hasn't changed. Do think a serious line was crossed, but this isn't it.