Posted on 01/22/2018 1:39:16 PM PST by EdnaMode
There’s currently a debate raging as to whether a teenager should be allowed to call her dog Negro. Actually, some people are so annoyed Twitter user @rebeca_macias18 named her missing hound the Spanish word for black they have suggested it should be changed. But the anger towards her seemed a bit unfair as she’s from Mexico, so speaks Spanish, and was not trying to offend anyone.
@rebeca_macias18 negro is missing😢 please if anyone sees him message me!!!
Some social media users argued she should have known how insensitive the word, which has been used to disparage black people in America, was. This Twitter user seemed to suggest the word should be changed even though it wasn’t supposed to refer to a person’s skin colour
@BeautiFul_JaA First of all the fact that negro is used in Spanish as a color is racist asf. The end https://twitter.com/priscillux/status/955264581730906112 … 3:15 AM - Jan 22, 2018
@Luyanda_D__ You definitely ain't gonna find that dog now with a name like that..... 1:21 PM - Jan 20, 2018
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How niggardly of them...................
Just to be safe, outlaw Spanish as a language. /sarc
Unlike English, there actually is a governing board that makes the rules that direct how the Spanish language is spoken and written.
I'm sure they'll be bitchin' about the Rio Negro next ...
I don’t think Negro was used as a term of disparagement. It’s not the current preferred adjective but it wasn’t a particular insult.
Well at least she didn't include this picture with the tweet
I once had a black dog named Blackie.
Boy was I a racist. To this day I still feel so guilty.
Rename the dog RGB (0,0,0).
I’ve been to the fabric district in L.A. YES, they do say “negro” as black when my GF was buying black satin and chiffon. It is what it is.
“the word, which has been used to disparage black people in America,”
WUT
Perpetually offended people are themselves highly offensive.
Blacks use the word to describe worthless men in baggy pants. It is apparently trademarked so other cultures are unable to use it.
Once again,
Twitter.
Put Twitter in the rear view mirror. No good comes of this site. Even when people argue that there is good, there is no good.
There are people that you want to hear from, they should blog and you should subscribe. They should publish and you should read. Twitter is all of those, and none of those.
Black in Spanish is negro. There is no Spanish word for n....r. And negro is not a word used in America to disparage black people.
Clearly she should have named it Perro de color.
Is this him?
Of course they do!
Spanish is a LATIN derived language, as is Italian and Portuguese, French, Romanian, and Catalan.
It would be like somebody telling English speaker we need to get rid of the word ‘black’ because it offends them.....................
I had a black lab named Sambo. And nobody cared.
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