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Originally Posted by ShiningForce
so whats racist about the word nigger? at the end of the day, its just a word. it doesn't carry any meaning other than to identify a black person. i do think that racism is how you see it, and so many people see it in everything they can.
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What's racist about the word is simply that it has become socially unacceptable on a global scale except unless said by one black person to another as an almost form of greeting.
Racism is a society driven morality.
I used to share a regular greeting joke with one of my black relatives from Tanzania and the joke between us basically went along the lines of me calling him sambo and jungle bunny and things like that and him calling me milky, pale face, white boy and the likes, we knew it was nothing more than a bit of fun between us, but the looks we'd get from other people was the funniest bit. Unfortunately i've lsot contact with him the last couple of years, but anyhoo...
Personally, I was disgusted that the gollywogs from the jam vanished, together with any trace of them.
You just have to see an old episode of Till Death Do Us Part with Alf Garnett to see what things used to be like or watch the film Man Friday with Richard Harris and Richard Roundtree to see another good example. Bringing out the original issue of Dandy again is certainly nothing new and personally I really don't get what the issue is. It's basically nothing more than a kids comic, there absolutely no harm intended, the only problem is all these so called purists, rightous law abiding moral campaigners, who essentially are nothing more than stuck up nosey busy bodies with nothing better to do than turn everything they can into their own social crusade. It's pathetic it really is, it's a bloody comic FFS, nothing more, nothing less.
What next, Desperate Dan will be banned for not being a vegetarian?