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Is WHITEY an insult?
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Posted 3 months ago It insults the hell out of me!! wagoncop said that. hard to come up with an ethnic slur that has less of a sting than "whitey." Those who take offense are confusing prejudice—which is making negative assumptions about people based solely on external characteristics, of which all races and ethnicities are guilty—with racism, which is prejudice in action. And if they're really that dumb, then I guess they deserve to be insulted. NOTE: This is not the whole Chicago Tribune article, IF you want to read it all http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-change_whiteyjun15,0,981005.story Whitey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Whitey may refer to: Whitey, in African-American slang , is a term for white people whose attitude is seen as representative of The Man . However, it is considered an ethnic slur ... In the original, which I cannot find now,but I posted this A.M. it had Eric Zorn as the wruter in that article he also diminished the word "honkey", Honky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Look up honky, honkey, hunkey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Honky, Honkey or Honkie is a predominantly American pejorative racial slur for white people. ...(W.C.s note: it is my understanding "honkey" was a term coined as an insult to white men who honked at black women while looking hor sex, since I am not guilty of such an offensive act I am in fact insulted)!
The purpose of this post is to show how far the Chicago machine can go to make their candidate, Obama, look good even if it means trying to make white people believe they are not being insulted when they are!
T.G.G. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Dauuuuummmmmmnnnnn Right it is an insult........ If someone used it in here I would take great pleasure in hitting the big red button For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life. The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 SCREW TIBET FREE SCOTLAND !!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Sure it's an insult. And if Cindy McCain used some sort of ethnic slur on the campaign trail, the media would absolutely destroy Sen. McCain by playing it over and over. I for one am absolutely sick of the double standard! 2 Cor. 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new." |
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| Posted 3 months ago Well we always seem to come back around to the fact that some people don't just want equal rights they want special rights. How many generations are we going to be expected to pamper somebody for the sins of our forefathers? Police Link Forums Moderator PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Here is a link to this mornings post, it is a little different: http://www.policelink.com/news_feeds/visit?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.chicagotribune.com%2Fnews_columnists_ezorn%2F2008%2F06%2Fwhitey-is-allri.html
I really have to wonder how a remark by Cindy McCain referring to "darkies" would be taken! T.G.G. |
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| Posted 3 months ago I am offended, but usually consider the source and laugh. I am more offended by the double standards that are the rule rather than the exception. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then it may be a troll doing an impression of a duck. |
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| Posted 3 months ago KSP494 says ...
It depends on how long we are willing to put up with it. As long as we sit back and just take it, we will be dealing with this type of thing. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I believe this is part of the problem. 2 Cor. 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new." |
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| Posted 3 months ago Yes, it is on the same derogatory level as someone using the "N" word..... I am a female, lol. |
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| Posted 3 months ago goodlight says ...
Absolutely a double standard. My first experience with this was in college. A guy who happened to be African-American was smashing the windows out of his ex-girlfriends car with a baseball bat. As an Intern Officer I felt almost sure I was supposed to do something about it. SO I called for back up, a Campus Police unit arrived and we approached the guy with our weapons drawn. We talked him into dropping the bat and he surrendered. The next day I found myself in the Chiefs office explaining why I drew my weapon on a guy who was armed with a base ball bat!?!?! The guys parents said it was because he was black. Be asured that if ANYONE was armed with a bat and smashing car windows I would consider them to be a deadly threat regardless of race. I reject your reality and submit my own. |
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| Posted 3 months ago bmorgan says ...
______________________________________________________________________________________________________ he was from Africa?????? You said African American...... For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life. The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 SCREW TIBET FREE SCOTLAND !!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago bad_LT says ...
Trying not to insult anyone....sometimes being PC is like trying to pick up a turd by the clean end. I reject your reality and submit my own. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Call me a Scandinavian-American. I am a minority. And don't call me the "w" word. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then it may be a troll doing an impression of a duck. |
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| Posted 3 months ago As my grandmother said..... I wish my forfathers would have done a better job of border security... She is a Native American.. Her husband was Scottish
Therefore from now on I am to be refered to as a Scottish-American For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life. The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 SCREW TIBET FREE SCOTLAND !!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Let's see I'd be an Irish, German, English,....... Oh heck I'm just an American. I reject your reality and submit my own. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Something the liberal keep forgetting
WORDS MEAN THINGS= If you make a statement there is a meaning behind each and every word !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life. The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 SCREW TIBET FREE SCOTLAND !!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago In my fanily if I said I was Italian-American somebody would correct me that in our family Anerica always comes first, so I am an American of Italian decent! T.G.G. |
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| Posted 3 months ago I have never been fond of the words people choose to use to try to slam an individual based on their skin color. The "N" word repluses me coming out the mouth of any person of any color. I've never been called "whitey" but I did have a colored individual call me a "cracker". I did my best not to laugh at her ridiculous attempts to offend me, but when she asked "do you want some cheese with that, cracker" I laughed histerically and realized the race card seems to only come into play when an individual has no other excuse for their wrongful behavior. And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln |
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| Posted 3 months ago wagoncop says ...
_____________________________________________________ There you go................................ If you live in the USA your an American.......... PERIOD Most of the people who claim to be "african american" could not speak a word of any of the languages spoken there, hell they can not even find it on a map........................... For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life. The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 SCREW TIBET FREE SCOTLAND !!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago Oh ya I almost forgot to answer the question..... Yes Whitey is an insult that I don't take lightly. I reject your reality and submit my own. |
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| Posted 3 months ago bad_LT says ...
I couldn't agree more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....................Now do you think we could find something else to talk about. |
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| Posted 3 months ago The "N" word ??????? Look it up
Means a stupid uneducated person. Note the date........... 1786 For so long as one hundred men remain alive, we shall never under any conditions submit to the domination of the English. It is not for glory or riches or honours that we fight, but only for liberty, which no good man will consent to lose but with his life. The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 SCREW TIBET FREE SCOTLAND !!!! |
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| Posted 3 months ago goodlight says ...
I totally agree. |
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| Posted 3 months ago bmorgan says ...
A couple of years ago, one of our officers had his baton taken from him when a guy snuck up behind him. The POT hit the officer in the back of head hard enough to cause that bled as if he had been shot. The officer dropped to his one knee and thankfully still had the presence of mind to draw his weapon, spin around and shoot him. I thought there was going to be a riot over the whole thing! The black community came out (including several black ministers) and spoke out against the officer shooting an "unarmed" man. Obviously, it was ruled a justifiable homicide and the officer is now a detective. 2 Cor. 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new." |
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| Posted 3 months ago Of course there is a double standard in this country. And that's true for more than just race. Personally, I don't get offended. You can call me anything you want. I know who I am and what I am and couldn't care less about the opinion of someone I've never met. In other threads we tell the new guys they need a thick skin and to not become offended when people call us Pigs or other not so nice names for cops. Then we run to another thread and talk about being offended over name calling. I tell people all the time that we learned in 1st grade that names can't hurt us. If they call you a bad name just consider yourself the better person and move on with your life. Pent up hostility and unnecessary negative emotions just cause ulcers and headaches. But that's just my opinion. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Georgia_Cop says ...
I don't get offended by someone calling me something because like you, I am very secure in who I am. Besides the older I get the less I care what others think anyway. The part that is offensive to me is the double standard. 2 Cor. 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new." |
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| Posted 3 months ago I can understand the bitter pill of double standards. I just don't feel like "offended" is the correct terminology for it. Women get offended by dirty jokes. Homosexuals get offended by gay references. Sanitation Engineers get offended when you call them janitors. This politically correct world we live in is become so ridiculous as to be laughable and depressing at the same time. I find the double standards of the race issue to be annoying. I never owned a slave and neither did anyone else in my family. EVER. So to hear that I owe somebody something for events that occurred many generations ago is maddening. But I don't take offense. It's just in the same category as most other stuff that bothers me about liberals Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Yes it's an insult and white trash is very insulting. There should be no such thing as the term "reverse discrimination". It should be classified as discrimination and affirmative action should be to protect everyone from discrimination. In like manner the spirit also joins in with help for our weakness, for the problem of what we should pray for as we need to we do not know but the spirit itself pleads for us with groanings uttered. No man serving as a soldier involves himself in the commercial businesses of life, in order that he may gain the approval of the one who enrolled him as a soldier. 5. Moreover, if anyone conten |
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| Posted 3 months ago Georgia_Cop says ...
As I said above, I don't let the names bother me, but am offended by the double standard. My children were never taught to distinguish people by color. When my daughter was in second grade, she was trying to tell me about a certain teacher. I couldn't figure out who she was talking about. She said, "She's the brown one." Remember, I'm from that backwards Southern state with the stereotype of racial prejudices and hatred; Mississippi. BTW, slaves were outlawed by the time my forefathers arrived in the US. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then it may be a troll doing an impression of a duck. |
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| Posted 3 months ago The most simple reply is "where is it coming from and what is the intent of the use?". Conversely, would Blacky not be considered an insult in 99% of the population? I do not see a way that it could be used in a non-chalant way or as brushed off as being non-racial. Myself, being Native American, would not appreciate being referred to as a "brownie" or a "white brownie" due to my complexion. Equal rights equals equal standards to be held accountable for. If you can do it, don't get pissed if someone else does it. If you are above doing it, then be offended and make a difference and not an excuse. |
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| Posted 3 months ago I really don't get offended when I am called names. I was a cop too long to let it bother me anymore. Like some of you though I do get rather upset with those people that make an issue out of race or skin colour and/or have and promote double standards. Do not tell me that I owe anyone something because a half dozen generations before someone may have been held in slavery. Lots of people have from all races and nationalities. It's not done now so get over it. I do not think anyone should get preferential treatment over another simply because of the pigment of their skin. I do not see the need for the NAACP, The Negro Collage Fund, Miss Black America, or any other organizations that cater to only Blacks or some others that cater to only Mexicans, or whatever. Having them for Whites only was wrong and it is just as wrong to have them for anyone else only. I judge people for who THEY are and what THEY believe in and how it relates to me. Skin colour does not come into play over it, nor should it. If you have a problem with this idea then I believe it is you that has the problem and not me. People like Jackson and Sharpton who make a living out of continuing hatred between people of different races make me sick and I cannot stand them, they are WRONG. Those people that are planning on voting FOR Obama for no other reason than they feel it is about time a Black man is President or "he is one of our own" you disgust me. Those that are planning on voting AGAINST Obama just because he is Black I have similar feelings about. If people do not start looking beyond race then we are in deep crap, all of us. |
