Is this Rantisi guy for real?

[midnight Target]

And you guys say the Libs have lost common sense.

[Torque]

Originally posted by lazs2
yankee and redneck and honky are vile and bigoted terms and the only people who should be allowed to use it are white people.

as in two white people saying 'hey honkey... whaa up?"   Anyone else saying it should of course be arrested for a hate crime.

lazs

So where does the word "japs" fall into your category?

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
It could be percived that way. What do you think?

I don't know, if a group of people go around kicking bellybutton wouldn't thier name become a complement?

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by Thrawn
I don't know, if a group of people go around kicking bellybutton wouldn't thier name become a complement?

That seems like odd resoning. Why would a people "kicking ass" neccesarily make some nickname for them a complement and thus acceptable.  

For example take the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the general use of the term "Brave" to describe indian historical figures. The term "Braves" obviously refers to the strong tradition of Indian warriors. By your standard it would be a complement and perhaps not offensive. Yet the fact is that many indian people are offended by that name being used to characterise their people.

[Capt. Pork]

Originally posted by midnight Target
And you guys say the Libs have lost common sense.

I never claimed they had any to begin with.

This discussion, however, is a bit off the original thread topic.