Sometimes.
It was the white kids who put the word ‘greasy’ in front of it, though.
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Yep. There’s one who posts here who declared me an honorary wog because I wore Adidas shoes instead of Nike, and had a pair of Kappa trakkies. Cool by me. If they use it, and don’t mind, I’ll use it too. But if it offends I won’t. Horses for courses.
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My mum, who is Maltese, copped a fair bit of racist ■■■■ from other mums when I was going through primary school (mid 80s). They told her that her kids would never amount to much because English was not her first language (she came to Australia with only very basic English language skills). Kept referring to her as non Australian, not part of the school community etc.
Anyway, those comments stayed with my mum for many many years. She would cry thinking she let me and my brother down because she "wasn’t Australian " enough.
A couple of months ago she ran into some these mums down at the local shops. She happily noted that her kids have 3 degrees and two Masters between them and in senior management roles so they could all go and ■■■■ themselves.
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Regarding the FIFA21 Game
"Celebrations
Some celebrations have been removed from the game for Fifa 21 which might good news for fans who don’t like them and think they’re mean.
EA say they’ve gone for “toxicity” reasons.
Sam Rivera, lead gameplay producer for Fifa 21, said two celebrations have been removed including the ‘Shhh’. This is when the player holds his finger to his/her lips and it’s sometimes seen as a way to provoke another player.
Another to be banned is the ‘A-OK’ - a [finger challenge celebration made popular by Tottenham Hotspur player Dele Alli] which only lasted one season"
Toxicity reason?
Lol fk off
Those who don’t are talking Boolshit.
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And calling them ‘Ottomans’ is probably offensive to Turkish people, so just call them oversized stools, I suppose.
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On behalf of all constipated people, that is offensive.
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That will create a hell of a stink.
Or maybe just call them pouffes
At the end of the day, its is just a label. If the person doesn’t take the conatation on board it isn’t a problem. It ony becomes one when someone else enters the equation because it upsets them. Terms of endearment are different for everyone and for some, very different indeed.
I agree, but in the past it was all about intention, not about what others thought.
I called my school friend (who was no 5 for the Bombers), Sambo which was the only name he responded to back in the 1960s and 1970s and my intent was pure. Today, I doubt he would even be called Sambo within his family, and imagine if I was cheering him at at the Footy calling him Sambo.
everything offends everyone these days. i honestly wish i grew up 30 years ago, it would of coincided with us being relevant in the 80s too
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Yep, you probably would have enjoyed watching the Bombers at Windy Hill standing in the outer with the Esky at your feet.
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It’s a good way to get banned, too.
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the burden of using different words for things. it’s just… just… so hard sometimes. how can we continue living like this
I confess that not being able to use words like retard, with the emphasise on the second syllable, and to a far lesser extent spastic in their non-derogatory meanings gives me some consternation.
As slurs they’re very grade three anyway, and I wouldn’t use them.
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Mid-century sitcom aspersions like dweeb, dork, nerd and square now cut so deep these days because they have always been impossible to refute.
Yah could be right. Im betting PC stuff was a thing in the 80s too.
And give it another 20 years people will be looking back at now thinking different things as well.
Mind you I think the worlds been in the toilet for 20 years. We peaked in the 90s.
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Or in my case, under my feet, as I had to stand on my older brother’s esky to see.
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While we’re on the subject, Siamese Twins.
Siam isn’t even a country anymore.
If memory serves it was coined after Chang and Eng.
Conjoined is certainly more descriptive, I guess, but I honestly don’t understand what’s intrinsically offensive about the former description.