Thump said:
Does that mean that if someone wants to use derogatory terms for Jews, Mexicans, Arabs, etc.. then it's OK?
Arabs have been getting slammed here almost since the site opened.
OK, let's get this shit out in the open. Out of all the people who've read this thread, three have dinged me and none are black (and one is Rashmish, who simply used it as excuse for a ding...he's called me "white trash" in his dings to me before, so his calling me a "racist shit" in one is laughable).
Just to let you all know, I lived in a Girard neighborhood with a high population of blacks while I was a young kid from 1962-1969, during the civil rights period. I went to school with black kids, played with black kids, hung out with black kids, and my best friend was black. How good of a friend was he? I remember to this day his asking me, "Why do white people get sun tans?" An honest question from a 10-year-old black kid to his white friend. Was I offended? No way. Despite our difference in skin pigmentation, I knew exactly why he asked it. I could relate to it. Yet today, the PC police would consider it in bad taste.
I PM'd one of the two white members who dinged me about my post and told him what I just told you all. His reply was, "Just b/c you lived in a neighborhood with black people doesn't give you the right to say it." Well, actually it does. So, it's OK for blacks today to use it and not for whites? See, that's what I hate about PC bullshit...they have America convinced (especially white America) that the word is so vile and conveys so much hate in itself (when it actually doesn't) and that it is many times worse than even the word "Fuck" that no one (at least no white people) should even be allowed to say it. It's funny that I can call tibor a raghead, we all rag on the entire French nation, we can call fans from West Virginia white trash and hillbillies, and members can post "Fuck Arabs" and get a laugh, but if I use "The N-Word", people shit their pants full. Folks need to get a grip...it's just a damned word.
Is it an offensive word? Hell, yes...it's meant to be. Is it a degrading word? Again, hell yes. Does its offensive, degrading connotation apply to Don King? No doubt.