Inside the NBA and the Double Standard of Racism

[Xxain]

PAOerfulone said:

Xxain said:

If that was a question you answered it: Because 'boy' directed towards black people, from white people, is usually another form of racism. Its not the same the other way around. You have made it clear that you understand that "boy" is racist when coming from a white person to black a person. Only in that context is boy racist so why would you expect it the other way around? 

On to your next paragraph. Bitch ass Nigger is no doubt without question racist. Hell, I would question a black friend that called me a bitch ass Nigger(not nigga). Bitch ass black boy.... depends on the context. I get and understand your words but I am not of the idea that black boy, brown boy, white boy ext are inherently racist. If I am joking around with some close non black friends and they call me a bitch ass black boy for whatever reason, I'm not gonna be like oh you fuckin racist!!!. I get if ya'll don't understand part.

 

Because it's a DOUBLE STANDARD. It's hypocritical. You can't have it one way and not the other. If a white guy calls a black guy 'boy' as in insult, it's racist. But if a black guy calls a white guy 'boy' as in insult, it isn't?? In the first scenario, everyone would go crazy and rip the white guy a new asshole, regardless if he didn't mean it like that. But in the latter scenario, if it's the black guy who says it, "it's not racism, he didn't mean it like that." That's a heaping pile of bullshit. Why do minorities get the benefit of the doubt and not white people? All it does is absolve black people and other minorities of that responsibility. That's not equality, that's patronism. And patronsim is nothing more than discrimination disguised as equality.

You answered this question:

Because 'boy' directed towards black people, from white people, is usually another form of racism. 

Only in this case has the word boy ever been used as a racial thing. In no other situations is this true. Boy has never been used in this way towards any other groups of people so why even consider that it was meant that way? Its not about double standards; if the term only means something one way.. then it it means something one way. That is the point of terms like this. One way dehumanization.