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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you being so vague about the slur?  [/quote]

second thread I’ve read lately on DCUM where person alleges a “slur” but won’t say what it is, so it is difficult to respond.[/quote]

Cracker, Jew, wetback, gringo, chink wouldn't be bleeped.  There is only one word that would be.[/quote]
One of these things is not like the other, one of these thins just does' belong . . . .
Seriously though, when did Jew become a slur?[/quote]

It's a slur when  you Jew someone down in price. I hear that all the time. [/quote]

Really?! I thought that went out in the 60s or 70s. Wow. Where are you that you hear it all the time?

I am Jewish and have never heard an anti-Semitic slur spoken to my face or within my hearing. I have read plenty, of course. I have never heard a racial slur, either, with the exception of "Oriental" used by my grandparents. I had to look up the term "spic." I'd heard of it but wasn't sure which group it denominated. [/quote]

I don't hear it "all the time." But probably every couple of years. I grew up in Maryland alsuburbs of Baltimore, and I'm white and Christian. By virtue of being white, other white people regularly say racist things to me assuming I am in solidarity with them just because I am white.  I absolutely can see this dad saying shit to a five year old, thinking she won't get it.  I am PP who said my own father called my kid a raghead (I'm married to an Arab).  Many white people say racist and bigoted stuff to each other ALL THE TIME. Not all of course. But there's a reason I moved from where I did.

I call it out when they do. But Daddy Trump Supporter here is likely emboldened by the heightened levels of accepted bigotry brought out by this campaign. I kind of doubt he's got many in his life who would tell him to keep it zipped.  [/quote]

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