Tired of reading PC crap? Okay.
“Nigger, Boogie, Jig, Jigaboo, Skinhead, Moolimoolinyon, Schvatza, Junglebunny. Greaser, Greaseball, Dago, Guinea, Wop, Ginzo, Kike, Zebe, Heed, Yid, Mocky, Himie, Mick, Donkey, Turkey, Limey, Frog. Zip, Zipperhead, Squarehead, Kraut, Heinie, Jerry, Hun, Slope, Slopehead, Chink, Gook.
“There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of those words in and of themselves. They’re only words. It’s the context that counts. It’s the user. It’s the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent. I get tired of people talking about bad words and bad language. Bullshit!”
Ah, the words of the immortal George Carlin.
There are so many other words we’re not supposed to say. If I may expand upon what Mr. Carlin says above, it’s not just the context of the speaker that counts. It’s also the context of the listener; in fact, I’d hazard to say that the context of the listener is far more important.
I’ve posted politically incorrect material before. Some others see it as an oddly-drawn guy with a lit, old-fashioned iron ball bomb perched on his head. Others see it as a representation of facts and concepts about religious extremism in today’s world. (I would be included in this group.)
A few see such material and would react by greeting me with a machete and an axe.
This last says something about me, but says far, far more about those like the attacker who wish me to say nothing that offends them.
Bullshit on that.
Crout should be Kraut.
I feel like the public schools have let me down, I honestly have to look a couple of those up.
Now here’s a question:
If a word is only bad contextually, whose fault is it that it’s bad: the speaker, or the listener?
Or is there a fault at all?
The words may not be intrinsically offensive, but your spelling is. It’s ‘Schvatza’ (Yiddish) or ‘Schwarzer’ (German), ‘Wop’ (for immigrants WithOut Papers), and ‘Heinie’. Oh, the magic of cut-and-paste…
Everybody’s a critic. Cut-and-paste was one of the few things that Microsoft did exactly right.
Fun fact: “kike” came from the Yiddish word “kikel” (circle). When immigrants were processed through Ellis Island, sorters would put chalk marks on the lapels of clothing worn by those entering the country. Jews got circles drawn–thus “kikel”.