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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
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I, too, find the NAACP super offensive.
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Yeah, I don't get that one.. I also don't get why "oriental" is racist.
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The odd part is she claims to have meant to say "people of color" vs "colored people".

How is one offensive and one not? It's the same thing. And I'm not saying she's wrong, she's right about one being less offensive, and it makes no sense.
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Yeah, I can't say anything other than I agree with Leisher's last post.
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GORDON wrote:Yeah, I don't get that one.. I also don't get why "oriental" is racist.
Can we start calling each other Occidental as a thing? Is that allowed?
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I heard oriental was bad because it is identifying people based on a geographical location. I have heard plenty of sensitive liberals, however, never hesitate to negatively generalize "southerners."
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GORDON wrote:I heard oriental was bad because it is identifying people based on a geographical location. I have heard plenty of sensitive liberals, however, never hesitate to negatively generalize "southerners."
As my wife like to remind me, ORIENTAL IS A RUG. Apparently some of her Asian classmates hated the word, and that was their excuse.

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But if you call them asian, aren't you generalizing them based on a location? It makes no damned sense.
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TheCatt wrote:
GORDON wrote:I heard oriental was bad because it is identifying people based on a geographical location. I have heard plenty of sensitive liberals, however, never hesitate to negatively generalize "southerners."
As my wife like to remind me, ORIENTAL IS A RUG. Apparently some of her Asian classmates hated the word, and that was their excuse.

Lame.
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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
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