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Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Barrister

Funny, I'm listening to a witness statement where one girl says another girl is beautiful, and says she looks like Pocahontas.  Everyone involved is native, of course.

I guess it's like you have to be black to use the N word, but there didn't seem to be any irony in using the name Pocahontas - it was just her way of saying a beautiful native girl.
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Quote from: Barrister on November 27, 2017, 04:56:04 PM
Funny, I'm listening to a witness statement where one girl says another girl is beautiful, and says she looks like Pocahontas.  Everyone involved is native, of course.

I guess it's like you have to be black to use the N word, but there didn't seem to be any irony in using the name Pocahontas - it was just her way of saying a beautiful native girl.

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Quote from: Barrister on November 27, 2017, 04:56:04 PM
Funny, I'm listening to a witness statement where one girl says another girl is beautiful, and says she looks like Pocahontas.  Everyone involved is native, of course.

I guess it's like you have to be black to use the N word, but there didn't seem to be any irony in using the name Pocahontas - it was just her way of saying a beautiful native girl.
:lol:  Wait.  You're serious?  You don't get the difference?
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Quote from: Barrister on November 27, 2017, 04:56:04 PM
Funny, I'm listening to a witness statement where one girl says another girl is beautiful, and says she looks like Pocahontas.  Everyone involved is native, of course.

I guess it's like you have to be black to use the N word, but there didn't seem to be any irony in using the name Pocahontas - it was just her way of saying a beautiful native girl.

It's almost like there's a difference between using a word to describe someone who looks like a specific character and using the same name as a  pejorative to dismiss someone based on their ethnicity.

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Quote from: garbon on November 27, 2017, 04:58:04 PM
Quote from: Barrister on November 27, 2017, 04:56:04 PM
Funny, I'm listening to a witness statement where one girl says another girl is beautiful, and says she looks like Pocahontas.  Everyone involved is native, of course.

I guess it's like you have to be black to use the N word, but there didn't seem to be any irony in using the name Pocahontas - it was just her way of saying a beautiful native girl.

:mellow:

Okay, I agree with garbon here. Jesus Christ, Beeb.
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Barrister

Quote from: Jacob on November 27, 2017, 05:10:13 PM
Quote from: Barrister on November 27, 2017, 04:56:04 PM
Funny, I'm listening to a witness statement where one girl says another girl is beautiful, and says she looks like Pocahontas.  Everyone involved is native, of course.

I guess it's like you have to be black to use the N word, but there didn't seem to be any irony in using the name Pocahontas - it was just her way of saying a beautiful native girl.

It's almost like there's a difference between using a word to describe someone who looks like a specific character and using the same name as a  pejorative to dismiss someone based on their ethnicity.

Of course I get the difference.  It was just the coincidence that I was listening to this witness statement where one girls calls another as being "like Pocahontas" at the same time this story comes across the news wire.
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It's no coincidence you're being a douchebag.

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Quote from: Jacob on November 27, 2017, 05:10:13 PM
It's almost like there's a difference between using a word to describe someone who looks like a specific character and using the same name as a  pejorative to dismiss someone based on their ethnicity.

At the risk of being pedantic, Trump is using it as a pejorative to dismiss someone based on their purported ethnicity, not their actual ethnicity.

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