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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 m
by 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 agoThat'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 agoIn 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 agoWebster'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 agoWell I'm glad that you seem totally qualified to be our great arbiter of racism. What would we do without you?