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What charming casual racism. "It's pretty ghetto" ... "The ghetto way is just to run this on a machine" ... "The ghetto reversing is to run strings."

by sbi 12y ago

twosheep 12y ago
Is that racist? I thought ghetto just meant poor/inelegant, across all colors and nationalities.
- deleted 12y ago
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- jessaustin 12y ago
  When sbi sees the word "ghetto", she thinks of a particular race. So this is a case of the pot calling the kettle... Whoops! Never mind...
antsar 12y ago
Racism? Webster's definition[0] of ghetto (and that of any other respectable dictionary) makes no reference to any particular race. Would the phrase "the poor man's solution is to run strings" also be racist, by your logic? [0] a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions; the poorest part of a city
- mbrubeck 12y ago
  That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes: > 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto (Note: I'm not calling the article's author racist, just noting that the above claim about Webster is factually mistaken.)
  - integraton 12y ago
    In the US for the past many decades the word "ghetto" has referred to qualities associated with poor urban american neighborhoods, specifically black neighborhoods, and only has a historical connection to jewish ghettos. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/segregated-from-its-history-how-ghetto-lost-its-meaning http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/seg...
- sbi 12y ago
  Webster's Dictionary does not discuss the pejorative use of the word "ghetto" and in any case is not an arbiter of racism.
  - random_pr 12y ago
    Well I'm glad that you seem totally qualified to be our great arbiter of racism. What would we do without you?
callum85 12y ago
Be very careful accusing people of racism. When you get it wrong, you undermine complaints about real racism.

What charming casual racism. "It's pretty ghetto" ... "The ghetto way is just to run this on a machine" ... "The ghetto reversing is to run strings."

by sbi 12y ago

What charming casual racism. "It's pretty ghetto" ... "The ghetto way is just to run this on a machine" ... "The ghetto reversing is to run strings."

twosheep 12y ago

Is that racist? I thought ghetto just meant poor/inelegant, across all colors and nationalities.

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jessaustin 12y ago
When sbi sees the word "ghetto", she thinks of a particular race. So this is a case of the pot calling the kettle... Whoops! Never mind...

antsar 12y ago

Racism? Webster's definition[0] of ghetto (and that of any other respectable dictionary) makes no reference to any particular race. Would the phrase "the poor man's solution is to run strings" also be racist, by your logic? [0] a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions; the poorest part of a city

mbrubeck 12y ago
That's only one of the definitions in Webster. It also includes: > 1: a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ghetto (Note: I'm not calling the article's author racist, just noting that the above claim about Webster is factually mistaken.)
- integraton 12y ago
  In the US for the past many decades the word "ghetto" has referred to qualities associated with poor urban american neighborhoods, specifically black neighborhoods, and only has a historical connection to jewish ghettos. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/segregated-from-its-history-how-ghetto-lost-its-meaning http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/seg...
sbi 12y ago
Webster's Dictionary does not discuss the pejorative use of the word "ghetto" and in any case is not an arbiter of racism.
- random_pr 12y ago
  Well I'm glad that you seem totally qualified to be our great arbiter of racism. What would we do without you?

callum85 12y ago

Be very careful accusing people of racism. When you get it wrong, you undermine complaints about real racism.