| eggs2see said: CGI & Encoded nibble - 100,000million gazzillion dollars says you are both from north america. Because no one else from any other country would care about using that word. I can't belive i even just said "that word" thats hilarious. But in the interest of keeping the peace, and respecting others wishes, i will not mention said word. |
Words are just words.
I have no problems with words.
I have problems with racists a-holes who use particular words to be racist.
The person using the word in this thread probably didn't mean it in a way to be racist but he used in the sense as he wanted to make fun of the person in the video for looking like and behaving a certain way which is most often associated with a certain race of people. The word doesn't offend me if it was used as a way of describing characteristics of someone. words offends me when they are used to describe someone with disdain and ridicule.
For example I have an austic, epileptic and down-syndrome brother. I don't mind it when people call him retarded as a way of describing, in English, some of his conditions because those words accurately describe his condition; his development is retarded relative to people without the condition. I mind people using the word retard to describe people who are dumb and doing stupid things (i.e. "Dude that's so retarded...") because they are using the word in a hateful and disrepectful manner. Also, using retarded to describe something without referencing what it is retarded with respect to is also just dumb :). Kapisch?
EDIT: added example
