Thanks BB, so are you!BionicBunny wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 11:07 amJust because a few people decided it was offensive doesn’t mean it’s an offensive racial slur. Everything is offensive now days and Too many people are trying to make everything politically correct and that’s walking on eggshells to please a few people and that’s walking on eggshells.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:53 amNo but in consideration for the fact that it's come to be offensive, we can choose not to use it. That's not walking on eggshells - it's just being a bit more conscious. I didn't realize any of that until Southern brought it up.BionicBunny wrote: ↑Sun May 31, 2020 4:19 pm
First, Becky is racial? I don’t know where you were going with that...
Second, I didn’t say you didn’t get to choose how you feel. I said you don’t get to choose a meaning of a word and expect everyone else to treat that word the way you view it when it isn’t a racial slur. The meaning isn’t racist. So people are not going to see it as racist and just because you do and you get offended doesn’t mean others should have to walk on eggshells.
I’m not telling you how to feel. Feel however you feel. But you don’t get to tell other people how to feel or that a word that doesn’t have a racial meaning to it is factually racist. It is not.
I mean no disrespect to southern. She is one of my favorites on here along with you and AZ and a few others.
But I’m not a PC person. If people in general try to tell me I can’t use a word because they decide it has a different meaning and it’s offensive I’m going to ignore it. I can’t control what other people get offended over and you can’t please everyone so I don’t live my life trying.
I get the frustration with constantly being told everything is racist or being called a racist and this is why I vehemently call out people who use racism to attack other people. It waters down our voices and makes it painfully difficult to have conversations like this. I can’t expect you to understand my frustration if I’m not trying
to understand yours.
But I’m not them and I think you mistook what I said as it’s a racial slur that you should never say or your damned a racist. We have agreed on some things, some maybe not, but I’ve never called you a racist and I’m not doing that now.
I think that is a fair compromise, even though we don’t agree.