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Is this deliberate or accidental racism?

• sp332 13y ago
  Looks like seiji didn't know "monkey" is a strong racist term, and just used it to describe behavior. Still insulting but not racist.
  • nilved 13y ago
    Accidental racism is still racism, but this isn't even accidental.
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    • seiji 13y ago
      My language isn't entirely confined to reality all the time. Sometimes there's crosstalk in inadvertent ways. Sorry for any hurts.
    • frenchy 13y ago
      There are two kinds of accidental racisms. The kind where the speaker means what he says, but does not identify it as being wrong. The second is where the speaker mis-speaks and doesn't actually mean to convey what the readers see as racist. I believe this is a case of the second.
    • waterlion 13y ago
      Accidental deliberate misunderstanding is still deliberate misunderstanding.
  • seiji 13y ago
    The noble behavior of stoning people to death based on tribal affiliations doesn't really require dignified descriptions of the people. Urban Dictionary barely mentions the word monkey may be racist. It's 3x more likely to be slang for girl parts.
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      • seiji 13y ago
        This is why we have laws and not mob rule. All civilized nations have done away with capital crimes by this point in the timeline.
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    • velis_vel 13y ago
      > Urban Dictionary barely mentions the word monkey may be racist. It's 3x more likely to be slang for girl parts. Oh, well, if Urban Dictionary says it, it must be true.
• mindslight 13y ago
  Is this deliberate or accidental sanctimonious groupthink topic derailing?