Posted on 11/13/2014 5:14:15 PM PST by walford
Thug
As Richard Sherman pointed out after receiving criticism about his post Super Bowl interview, “It seems like [thug] is the acceptable way of calling someone the n word nowadays. Substituting the word thug doesn’t disguise the negative association with Black people.”
Urban/Inner City
The Black community is often referred to as urban or inner city when people are uncomfortable talking about Black people or where they live.
State’s Rights
During the Civil Rights Movement, politicians used racially coded appeals and words such as “state’s rights” to try and capitalize on the racial anxiety during that time.
Welfare and Food Stamps
When President Lyndon Johnson wanted welfare to include a racial component, it became possible to associate welfare with helping minorities. The same stigma is used with food stamps today. When Newt Gingrich called Obama “the food stamp” president, everyone knew what word he really was using.
Law and Order
During the Civil Rights Movement, the opposition said that “Law and Order” was needed to handle the racial tension and civil rights protests. In other words, we need to control the Blacks.
Cut taxes
Making the poor and people of color sound more threatening, cutting taxes has long been racial code for not using tax payer money to help Black and brown people.
These people (Aha! “These people” is code for “n***ers”!) can find so few instances of actual racial insults, that they have to redefine other, non-racial terms as being racial.
LOL! Excellent.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
I think the most absurd point came when The Grievance Elite stated that when conservatives made political references to GOLF, it was ipso facto a racial attack on the Prez.
Freaking G O L F.
Called it a DOG WHISTLE, or something.
The author is a walking example of the Gruber Principle in action.
Chigger {: )
uncomfortable talking about Black people or where they live
“state’s rights” to try and capitalize on the racial anxiety during that time
Welfare and Food Stamps
“Law and Order” was needed to handle the racial tension
using tax payer money to help Black and brown people
Imagine having stereo-types like this associated with you, and being more concerned with the stereo-type than with stopping the behavior that caused it...
Speaking coherent English is racist.
"teenagers" when talking about violence without any other detail....we all know it means they are black...
"diversity" when used almost always means "anybody but a white guy"...
courts ruling that voter ID is against the law really mean "it'll prevent the illegals and the felons from voting and it'll prevent "our" people from voting multiple times at multiple locations", "our" or course meaning the preferred minority...
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ROFL, no kidding. Even after the reign of Tiger Woods, say the word “golf” and up pops a picture of old white guys in my mind. I doubt it’s much different for 99% of the population.
Teen now means male black criminal between 10 and 40.
Similar to Europe where “youth” means male muslim criminal between 10 and 40
“Thug” is a Hindi word for a fanatical worshipper of Kali who robbed and strangled travelers as part of her murder cult.
To refer to the urban black criminal element, I usually use “teen”, “youth” or “yoof”, or “mischief maker”.
Years ago, the running joke was: "that's offensive! You should call them chegroes."
Uh, they forgot “Amish”.
this guy is not calling a spade a spade...
The first time I heard the word “urban” to mean something different from “in the city” was from some liberal educators I happened to be working with. I was confused when one of the schools they were talking about was way beyond the city limits and out in the middle of the corn fields. They explained that an urban school is a minority-
majority school, no matter where it is physically located, and that’s the term they always used. It seemed to me more of a euphemism of the left.
Good point you make!
Small addition on my part: stereotypes must be earned. You can’t get one for being benign.
Wow.
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