Virote_Considon
The Great Dictator
Well, it isn't a sarcastic comment.
Is "uppity"
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aronnax
Let your spirit be free
How can a word be racist, if the person truly uses it in a non-racist way.
Words have different meanings that change over time. . .. .. .. .. .. . no longer refers to old or unpleasant woman. But if I was to live life, only knowing that . .. .. .. .. .. . meant old and unpleasant woman, and I call an Old lesbian woman that, well by god, I was just calling her unpleasnat and old. Nothing else.
Words have different meanings that change over time. . .. .. .. .. .. . no longer refers to old or unpleasant woman. But if I was to live life, only knowing that . .. .. .. .. .. . meant old and unpleasant woman, and I call an Old lesbian woman that, well by god, I was just calling her unpleasnat and old. Nothing else.
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
'Uppity' is racist? Never heard that before. Is it an American definition?
Looking at dictionary.com suggests so:
Well, firstly, take note of 'by blacks of other blacks'. Secondly, that definiton suggests that uppity evolved from 'uppish', meaning 'conceited, arrogant', and only began to be used to describe self-assertive blacks later on.
So, yeah, I agree with MobBoss, too.
Looking at dictionary.com suggests so:
Online Etymology Dictionary said:
Well, firstly, take note of 'by blacks of other blacks'. Secondly, that definiton suggests that uppity evolved from 'uppish', meaning 'conceited, arrogant', and only began to be used to describe self-assertive blacks later on.
So, yeah, I agree with MobBoss, too.
Dr.Mindbender
King
If I had said it before you, I would have meant it in a sarcastic manner.
QuoVadisNation
keeping your angel alive
What context would that be, Cutlass?
Kennigit
proud 2 boxer
I had never heard that "uppity" could be a racial slur until now. Granted I am from a significantly younger generation, but I hold no fault to the congressman. Uppity has always meant snobbish and stuck up whenever I've heard it and used it.
Trajan12
Deity
If only everyone cared this goddamn much about getting rid of job discrimination.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Living in the southern tip of a border state, I have to say I've never heard that phrase "uppity negra" and have only ever heard it used without racial connotation. My sister is often referred to as being "uppity" beacuse she's a snobby brat.
I'm immediately reminded of when Howard Cosell referred to Redskin Aliven Garrett with "look at that little monkey go!" not intending to use the racial connotation of that term "monkey." It's just really sad that people can't understand context, or get over things like that. After all, you don't see me up in arms every time some black man calls a white man a "stick cracka" or something.
However, given Westmoreland's record, I really doubt if he didn't mean it in a racial context, or that he was ashamed that it was if he didn't.
I guess some poor black guy must get hanged before some people remember what is racism and what is not...
I am definitely not racist. But such news actually make me resent black people and want to avoid them.
I do not claim to empathically understand the whole historical context, that is just how such news make me feel.A hypothetical question: Can a black person be uppity? And if he is, would saying that to him be racist insult?
skadistic
Caomhanach
It is only rasist if a white person says it.
philippe
FYI, I chase trains.
I agree with mobboss too. uppity isn't racist.
Abaddon
Deity
No, I don't think is it
JohnRM
Don't make me destroy you
Next thing you know, it will be racist to call someone 'black' or 'African'.
Trajan12
Deity
ZOMG Enslavement of the White Race!!!1!!! LOLOLOLOL"
Now that we've got all the sensationalism out...
, that has to be the most contradictory thing I've heard all day.
"I'm not racist, I'd just like to judge an entire group of people based on what a few people, quite possibly not even in the target race, have said!"
Now that we've got all the sensationalism out...
I am definitely not racist. But such news actually make me resent black people and want to avoid them.
, that has to be the most contradictory thing I've heard all day."I'm not racist, I'd just like to judge an entire group of people based on what a few people, quite possibly not even in the target race, have said!"
"I'm not racist, I'd just like to judge an entire group of people based on what a few people, quite possibly not even in the target race, have said!"
I don't deny that my emotions may have been contradictory. So what?
Plus, do you want to say that your opinion of said group - whatever it is - is based on careful, personal assessment of each and every one of its members?
Trajan12
Deity
I don't deny that my emotions may have been contradictory. So what?
Plus, do you want to say that your opinion of said group - whatever it is - is based on careful, personal assessment of each and every one of its members?
First of all, having an opinion of a group in general is beyond silly.
Second of all, yes. My opinion of each and every individual I ever meet is based on how they present themselves as a person first and foremost and afterward what I've gotten to actually know about them as a person. The same as every decent and objective minded human being's is.
The poor oppressed white race. Having their vocabularly enslaved to the consequences of connotation.
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