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DaSy
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 Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:36 pm |
I'm trying to understand when it becomes racist to refer to another persons race, in the terms that racist is being used in this thread.
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alfablue
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:37 pm |
| DaSy wrote: | | Alfablue - do we know whether Indians are offended by being referred to as Indian then? |
I don't know - I was merely trying to explain why some words that relate to ethnicity may be considered to be more of a racial slur than others. Just theorising, not attempting to write the rule book.
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teagar
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:38 pm |
| DaSy wrote: | | I'm trying to understand when it becomes racist to refer to another persons race, in the terms that racist is being used in this thread. |
In absolute terms it is, but socially it's fine to do so.
It's the context and the way the term was used in the OP which caused all the faff.
Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie. |
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alfablue
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 4:42 pm |
| DaSy wrote: | | I'm trying to understand when it becomes racist to refer to another persons race, in the terms that racist is being used in this thread. |
I am reluctant to put my head above the parapet again, but I would suggest that it is when the person's race is described when it can have no logical relevance to the issue - on this thread the implication is that the person's race, ethnicity or nationality is somehow an explanation for the behaviour upon which the OP commented. So stating "person A behaved badly (they were of race B)" connects the bad behaviour with race (and is using racial stereotyping) - I can see why that causes offence.
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dmclite
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dmclite
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Posted Fri Nov 6, 2009 5:32 pm |
Last post was tongue firmly in cheek.
+1 alfablue.
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Chip \'oyler
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Fungus The Muffin Man
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Fungus The Muffin Man
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John C.
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:49 pm |
The first time I had a crash, the first person on the seen was an Aussie on holiday ( a doctor BTW). Now I don't have a degree, but that was how I have always told the story. Does this make me a racist ?
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Chip \'oyler
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 4:15 pm |
No - but what has him being a doctor got to do with it?
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rake
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 4:21 pm |
according to these pages it does.
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STEFANOS4784
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