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tisonlyi · 06-24-2009, 01:43 PM

Bad words or gestures used with venom attack you for something you are, something you're related to or something you've done.

Four eyes = personally, physically offensive.
Cunt = personally offensive due to an unwelcome behaviour.

Bastard (traditional) = Calls into question the sexual morality of your mother, her relationship with your father and your relationship with your entire family.

Nigger/*Monkeynoises*/Gollywog/Paki/Rag head/Gook/Spic etc = Categorise, denigrate, deride and degrade you, any and all characteristics about you, anything you do or have done as well as every one of those things directed against all of your family, ancestors, friends and their ancestors back into antiquity and beyond. Purely as a function of your skintone and/or culture.

Any insults, used with venom, have a range. The range for racist abuse (not just the words, the abuse, the venom is necessary as well) is way off the chart with regard to something personal and physical, like four-eyes.

Got that, you four-eyed honky?

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And, growing up and existing in a some well-mixed areas, those racial bad words could be thrown around, without venom, and they're fine.

Like "gay" went from an insult to a positive statement of pride (with a little reaction at the moment that will pass), people take back bad words and deprive them of their power.

In a way, lifting the word up to its status as "unspeakable" maintains and even inreases its power and the power of the idiots who would use it as invective.

06-24-2009, 01:43 PM	#28 (permalink)
tisonlyi Nothing	Bad words or gestures used with venom attack you for something you are, something you're related to or something you've done. Four eyes = personally, physically offensive. Cunt = personally offensive due to an unwelcome behaviour. Bastard (traditional) = Calls into question the sexual morality of your mother, her relationship with your father and your relationship with your entire family. Nigger/Monkeynoises/Gollywog/Paki/Rag head/Gook/Spic etc = Categorise, denigrate, deride and degrade you, any and all characteristics about you, anything you do or have done as well as every one of those things directed against all of your family, ancestors, friends and their ancestors back into antiquity and beyond. Purely as a function of your skintone and/or culture. Any insults, used with venom, have a range. The range for racist abuse (not just the words, the abuse, the venom is necessary as well) is way off the chart with regard to something personal and physical, like four-eyes. Got that, you four-eyed honky? ---------- Post added at 10:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:40 PM ---------- And, growing up and existing in a some well-mixed areas, those racial bad words could be thrown around, without venom, and they're fine. Like "gay" went from an insult to a positive statement of pride (with a little reaction at the moment that will pass), people take back bad words and deprive them of their power. In a way, lifting the word up to its status as "unspeakable" maintains and even inreases its power and the power of the idiots who would use it as invective. __________________ "I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}-- Last edited by tisonlyi; 06-24-2009 at 01:53 PM..