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What color of brown is nigger brown anyway? Negroes come in lots of colors!
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Last edited by Winter Storm; Apr 20, 2007 at 11:46 AM.
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Not everyone/thing that says prints "nigger" is out to demean black people, but keep in mind that word took about 200 years or more to downgrade from "ultimate insult" to just "nasty insult". I was speaking idiomatically. |
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I have to agree with Klaus. Lord knows if the couch was cracker white, every lame-ass comedian from here to the ends of the earth would be using it for fuel in the equally lame-ass comedy shtick. Double standard much?
It's just a fucking word, and what's more an error that was caused due to translation issues. Oh noes the word nigger was used by accident and I'm black! Time for the lawsuit. FELIPE NO
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So this lady's actually gonna sue the company over a word? Hahaha sweet. I hope she wins so it'll teach those little Chinese kids to learn to read!
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It's not like words have meaning, right? Words have no meaning at all!! Hmm www.dictionary.com There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Yes, the word has meaning and has the mild potential to traumatize an entire family. Maybe. But to get offended over an obvious mistake that was explained reasonably and satisfactory to the point that they need to sue and make a scene of themselves is ridiculous. The only person at fault here is this mother.
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It was a mistake. And HOW anal is it for people not to want to sit on the couch? Okay, I just read the rest of the article. The woman wants the people responsible to "own up" to the mistake. THEY ALREADY DID! The software company said--"That's our fault. We apologize. It is regrettable." So now she wants money that could come 6 months to two years from now? Sheesh! I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?
Last edited by Leknaat; Apr 21, 2007 at 01:19 AM.
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Here's the couch. Actually, it kinda is the right color. I was speaking idiomatically. |
"Nigger brown couch" is the funniest thing I've read in a while. Racism is hilarious, especially when it's not racism.
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I dunno, if I bought a couch and it was called "cracker white", I would be on the floor laughing.
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What's wrong with her eyes? That's the real issue here.
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Hmm. Do I type a furious reply and say how many people here don't seem to 'get' racism? Like how they think theres really nothing wrong with the word nigger, it's just a word, a damn word that black people been plugging for years anyway, damn coons they use it themselves? (even though the spelling is with an a) How people seem to think that every (although some do admitedly) black person who gets offended is just looking for attention and 'overreacting' just 'over a silly little word that school kids and thugs use in the playground'? How if the story was about a woman getting money over the use of the word bitch, they'd be more sympathetic? How people need to stop relying on the media and (lol) start thinking for themselves? How we can all make the world a better place, by Recycling? How only they can prevent forest fires? How to do the level select for Sonic 1?
Or, do I sit back and laugh at the description as 'nigger brown couch'? Lol! Honestly, I'd just settle for an apology from the couch company, and that they didn't do it again. I doubt I'd try to sue over it. Seems like a dumb mistake from the chinese carpet company that they're going to rectify anyways. Unfortunely, the word cracker is never going to mean as much to white people, as the word nigger does to black people. It's not just the word it's the history blah blah blah. You all KNOW. Just as if the couch was labled as 'Every Nazi's dream!', the word Nazi would just be enough for Jewish people to get angry. But if I knew an asian person who was offended by the word 'paki' and he thought he could get money, and he was willing to share with me, I'd say GO FOR IT! This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Maybe it's Niger-Brown, the Chinese-to-English dictionary is so stupid.
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Last edited by siyeclover; Apr 21, 2007 at 11:13 AM.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...whoa. Hold the phone. Just noticed something here. Is this chick Canadian? Cause, the story's from Toronto. Now, I'm no expert, but the Canadians didn't have slaves. So, like, that whole, "Nigger" issue, I'm thinking, you know, since it's really from the American South, can it really be a big deal for a Canadian black person? Does it have the same connotations? Do English black people, like black people in Britain, get offended by the word "Nigger"? Really?
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It's a win win. LOL. Either way, the subject is funny to me. It might be racist, funny. It's just cause the asians are like *Scratches the back of his head* Nigger is our way of saying it's a black/brown couch! Maybe she should have bought a couch from america, LOL! Oh and about the jew thing, I've seen many people throw around 'that's jewish' regardless if they are jews or not so it's become one of those words no one cares about especially on the net. And lol @ the jew couch joke. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
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Now I know it's easy for me to speak out of my cracker-white mouth, but I think black people are pushing themselves back a few years each time someone becomes (willingly or not is irrelevant) offended by the racial slur. Obviously, the world has changed, and we know that what we had done in the past was wrong. There are a few people who still think that black people were born to pick cotton, but there are also people who thing it's their duty to massacre 32 people in a University. I realize that blacks have a much darker history than whites, but every time a black person connotates "nigger" with "worthless big-lipped slave" is doing their race a disservice. They should be pushing themselves to a point where nigger is taken the same way cracker would be, not using it as an excuse to get money, press, etc etc. (Yes, I know some get genuinely offended, but this is where they need be strong and push themselves ahead). It's kind of like gays. I have no problem with gays, but every time they have their Gay-Pride parades, It goes against the idea that they are just like you and I. If we want everyone to be equal, we can't have these minority/ethnic groups sticking themselves out like a sore thumb. Spoiler:
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I'm black and I get a chuckle out of it. I suppose they could take it the wrong way and if so they could always send it back.
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