i think we’re pretending ghettoblaster was actually offensive to anyone and not, you know, a lie.
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is said ghetto being blasted with some block rocking beats?
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Using ghetto as an adjective because the noun in question is associated with Black people is actually offensive, unlike using ghetto according to its dictionary definition.
well as someone whose family were in actual ghettos before marched to death, i guess i find both the common use of boombox and your heroic travel to get jerk kitchen equally offensive.
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As someone else whose family were in actual ghettos before being marched to death, I politely suggest you educate your fellow posters on nomodsnomasters of this fact. They certainly won’t listen to me!
you mean that the location of the jerk chicken store in silicon valley is not really worth of being called “kinda ghetto” (ghettoish)? Or, you know –
The sentence “the jerk chicken store is kinda in the ghetto BUT it’s tasty” might be doubly offensive? What is the purpose of the BUT in that sentence, other than emphasizing how the store is worth a visit even though black people live near by?
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As someone whose family members who didn’t make it to America were killed in ghettos, is this another personal attack calling people from nmnm antisemitic?
No. Just not educated on the historical significance of certain words. And as Otatop pointed out, I never called the posters at nomodsnomasters antisemitic.
What do you think is more commonly accepted by the local residents? The use of “kinda ghetto” to describe the location of the Jamaican restaurant in Menlo Park or the use of “ghettoblaster” to describe a boombox in a black-prominent neighborhood in London?
My uneducated guess is that local residents would react more kindly to jal than to wookie in this case
(none of the issues are big deal, but you guys decided to quadruple down)
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Please feel free to point to where I have defended Wookie’s use of “ghetto.” Go ahead, I’ll wait. Or are we doing that thing again where all anti-captains are the same poster?
Where did I point that you have? You just took off that part when you quoted my sentence and the issue was brought up by Wookie himself. The post you quoted was not directed at you nor is it a reply to your post. The you was plural. I lived in NC for a year, but i feel like using y’all would be cultural appropriation.
I hope you’re done waiting.
Sure seemed like you were responding to me. But I’ll accept your explanation that you weren’t and you agree with my posting.
Sure bro
i mean you wrote the place is in the kinda ghetto BUT it has amazing chicken.
How would you read that sentence other than a way to justify your travel into that neighborhood? You can even use the ESL card.
Gonna have to do this at karaoke night.
i don’t agree with your posting. I would let both ghettos reference slide. If I remember correctly, you made a very very big deal out of the use of ghettoblaster. I do not remember you making a big deal out of wookie’s use, which again, I would argue is way more offensive to the actual people we are trying not to offend.
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