Originally Posted by Tark
Dude now you are just arguing for the sake of it... when you call a black guy a nig**r it's only truly hurtful because of the history behind the word and the atrocities that happened in the pass. Factor in the real act (apart being called a nig**r once in a while) of discrimination that this person had to endure during his life, maybe not from you personally but from others who would also use this term.
The derogatory words used to describe a white person does not have that heritage, that pass related it. I have yet to see a act (physical apart from just being called whitey) of this "reverse racism".
I do also agree that sometimes the white man is accused a bit to anxiously of being racist. I didn't read the finger joke that everyone is talking about... so can't/wont comment on that.
So honkie doesn't have the history nor does whitey that the other words do. I can appreciate that so this makes it ok for me to refer to someone as a "ching chong"...after all it doesn't have the history of hatred behind it.
You may think I am arguing for the sake of arguing, but I am not. I am arguing that the line of reasoning you are using is wrong and it is still an offensive term regardless of the history behind it, or lack thereof
