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Started by garbon, December 10, 2014, 09:59:07 PM

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Do you use the term?

Sure do
7 (14.6%)
Not really but what is old is always new again
6 (12.5%)
Nope
27 (56.3%)
THAT'S RACISS
3 (6.3%)
I'm from outside of North America and that's normal speech, blackie
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garbon

December 10, 2014, 09:59:07 PM
I was just at a holiday party (as a +1 to a friend's party) and had, as it happens, several occurrences of being asked my background / where I'm from. More than a few times when I explained, I got back "Oh so you're mulatto" to which I smiled my assent. One of the people was a black woman who then said, "Oh are we allowed to say that now?"

I realized that while I don't necessarily take issue with the term, it does feel dated / I don't use it personally as it makes me feel like a black person using slave terms.

What say you, Languish?
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Ideologue

#1
December 10, 2014, 09:59:52 PM
No, I don't. :lol:
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CountDeMoney

#2
December 10, 2014, 10:04:34 PM
"Oh, you're high yellow."  So there's worse, I guess.

I wouldn't say mulatto.  It is dated, and sounds like a fucking desert.

sbr

#3
December 10, 2014, 10:05:18 PM
That word always reminds me of ice cream for some reason.

Two scoops of Mulatto in a waffle come please.

mongers

#4
December 10, 2014, 10:05:27 PM
Good grief, that's an old term.

Using it almost make someone sound like their talking about horse breeds rather than people, to my ear it has overtones of a slave owners talking about their chattels.
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garbon

#5
December 10, 2014, 10:08:07 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 10, 2014, 10:04:34 PM
sounds like a fucking desert.

Well I do taste pretty sweet.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

#6
December 10, 2014, 10:12:42 PM
I'm as likely to use mulatto as I am to use quadroon or octoroon.

garbon

#7
December 10, 2014, 10:13:24 PM
Brain would like that the party also had a discussion about the difference between zoophilia and bestiality, as well as the normality of fucking donkeys in parts of Colombia. :wacko:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

derspiess

#8
December 10, 2014, 10:15:08 PM
When my sister in law got knocked up by a black dude she was all excited she was gonna have a 'mulatito'.
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Ideologue

#9
December 10, 2014, 10:15:20 PM
Is there a difference?
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garbon

#10
December 10, 2014, 10:18:23 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on December 10, 2014, 10:15:20 PM
Is there a difference?

From wiki (/that was my question):

QuoteSome zoophiles and researchers draw a distinction between "zoophilia" and "bestiality", using the former to describe the desire to form sexual relationships with animals, and the latter to describe the sex acts alone.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

#11
December 10, 2014, 10:25:59 PM
Used to, I had no idea it was anything but a neutral term.  So now I just use 'mixed-race' which is vague but it is the best we have I guess. 

I think we should use all the old Spanish Caste terms.  White people can now be 'Creoles'.  Or maybe not.
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Jacob

#12
December 10, 2014, 10:44:54 PM
Don't use the term... it seems pretty dated, yeah.

Ed Anger

#13
December 10, 2014, 10:46:08 PM
HEY BOY
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CountDeMoney

#14
December 10, 2014, 10:51:51 PM
You sounded taller on the radio.
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