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Vigo:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 22, 2011, 07:10:42 pm ---
Nobody seemed to care when the word Canuck was being thrown around the forum left and right. It's just as derogatory as white trash.
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Who knew Vancouver hockey was so offensive? :dunno
ChadTower:
Even the dictionary lists it as derogative. Basic meaning is "Canadian (often western) white trash". Every time I bring that up someone points out the hockey team as proof it's not a slur. In reality that team is not much different from the Redskins. Yeah, some Canadians use it to refer to each other, but that's how slurs work. You can call your own people the slur. People here don't know because people here don't know jack crap about Canada to begin with.
Vigo:
Maybe it could ruffle someone's feathers in 1800, but not today.
Canuck is about as offensive as Yankee. Other countries may throw out Yankee in a lowbrow sense, but definitely not maliciously. If Americans use it, it often even out of pride. It's slang, not a slur.
lilshawn:
well... for fear this will be P&R'd I guess I can consider canuck, honkie, and cracker hate crime material and therefore be hypersensitive when anybody of any sort of ethnicity says it to me...but be okay with it when my brethren say it.
just sayin'?
Vigo:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on June 23, 2011, 11:52:41 am ---well... for fear this will be P&R'd I guess I can consider canuck, honkie, and cracker hate crime material and therefore be hypersensitive when anybody of any sort of ethnicity says it to me...but be okay with it when my brethren say it.
just sayin'?
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That's why I am a fan of the Harry Callahan philosophy. Be a racist to every single ethnic group out there, including your own. That way it is technically not racism anymore. :P
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