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Out of our cotton pick'n minds

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Astrodome, Apr 13, 2018.

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What is your opinion of this story?

  1. This phrase offends me

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  2. ESPN is way too liberal/progressive

    38.2%
  3. This phrase doesn't offend me but shouldn't be used anymore

    35.3%
  4. Fire the announcer

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  5. Astrodome is a cuck

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  1. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Of course. Context matters. There are any number of otherwise stereotypical things I can talk about and not offend until I tie a particular race, ethnicity, nationality to it.
     
  2. DonnyMost

    DonnyMost be kind. be brave.
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    Nobody votes for the language police. Rightly so.

    Trump 2020 thanks you.
     
  3. Buck Turgidson

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    I'm fairly certain everyone agrees that is unacceptable.

    Do tell....
     
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  5. cml750

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    Sort of like calling a black Trump supporter a "Trumpanzee"?
     
  6. TheresTheDagger

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    It's so "gangsta".
     
  7. Deji McGever

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    One of my high school's greatest rivals in football was the...
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    If I was privileged enough to presume it was a racial slur I would guess it would be towards Mexicans.

    My mom made bad grades in school because her stepfather made all her and all her brothers and sisters work picking cotton, because that's what broke ass poor people still do in many parts of Texas. Neither my mother or anyone I ever saw in Robstown is black and the phrase is still common in rural South Texas where people are 1. overwhelmingly hispanic and 2. grow cotton if they have money and 3. pick it if they don't.
     
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    I think if getting rid of the announcer was because of this comment, it is unfortunate and was a poor decision. I feel bad for the guy.
     
  9. conquistador#11

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    people do that? I thought that thread was just for any follower of trump doing racial things. let me check the "trumpanzee thread"
     
  10. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Yes, that is a real problem too.

    o_O
     
  11. JuanValdez

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    I don't like the Trumpanzee thing, regardless of color.
     
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  12. cml750

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    It doesn't bother me too much personally. Words and names are not near as offensive to me as actions but people who use/used the term "Trumpanzee" are some of the most butthurt people there are when it comes to political correctness.
     
  13. Invisible Fan

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    Looks like the incident left a black mark on his career.
     

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