#125

But then we come back to

I’m just trying to work out if you’re just being picky, which I am totally cool with, or being deliberately obtuse, which is just silly.

#126

Haven’t seen Noam Chomsky post on here since the move to the new boards, so it’s just me now I’m afraid

#127

I think Pinker still has a couple of joke accounts.

#128

Yeah my nan would never call mustard mustard. It was always “French mustard”, the terrible racist that she was.

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#129

@pinkybrain

#130

I worked in Nigeria for a week. A co worker from there who I became really friendly with in that week thought it was hilarious that I couldn’t say his name. It involved a strange throat click sound at the start. I really did try, but being the imperialistic scum I am, I couldn’t manage it.

#131

My folks still have ‘a ch*nky’ every Saturday night
:worried:

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#132

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#133

The joke I immediately thought of making. Just so you’re aware.

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#134

Guys stop being racist. It’s pronounced ch*nky and don’t try to pretend that your mouth isn’t capable of pronouncing the asterisk.

#135

Oh, picky totally! That is the entire point of linguistics after all

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#136

my grandparents were all working class irish as well as old so yeah, you pretty much have to be racist. but they were benign racists, like i think because of the way they were treated by english people in ireland and when they came to england they sort of empathized a lot with other immigrants. it was more unthinking problematic terms they’d use. calling chinese food “a ch!!ky” and so on.

i miss my benignly racist irish grandparents :cry:

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#137

I think all sandwiches are racist in some ways.

#makeuthink

#138

are you saying the klanwich i enjoyed in mississippi last autumn was problematic in some way?

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#139

I’m not a huge fan. Give me an E.D.L.T. instead any day of the week.

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#140

“It’s a race of people, but it’s also a food” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBagN5En-N0

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#141

see stuff like that pisses me off. i know it was on the apprentice but just the utter gobsmacking indifference to a part of our history where we committed genocide more than once is…really fucking weird and chilling.

like putting churchill on the currency when he was an aggressive imperialist, warmonger and killed millions of colonial subjects with his fucked up policies (e.g., bengal famine)

gone off topic a bit here but i think this stuff is all linked and accounts for well-meaning mistakes as well as deliberately hateful actions.

#142

now i’m like brent in the office when they’re trying to think of more custard puns.

:thinking:

#143

Especially if the bread is Mighty White

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#144

You’ve got me here (no you haven’t)

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