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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In with a 3.9UW and 33 ACT. White male, no hooks. If you're not a Gator you're gator bait![/quote]

Yeah, I wouldn’t use that phrase. It’s racist.[/quote]

Jesus Christ.[/quote]

Just another cracker who doesn’t seem to care that Blacks were fed to alligators as “gator bait”. That’s where the phrase comes from.[/quote]

“Cracker” sounds racist too. One seems accidental, the other seems intentional.[/quote]

A white person who is ignorant of that term’s origin and the declines to apologize for using it … that’s poor character. We can do better. I have never used that term and didn’t know its racist origin. Thank you for educating me! [/quote]

I’m confused, which word did you use?  One is certainly racist (and intentional), the other seems to be (I trust your facts, as I never knew) but was accidental. Both are bad (if your assumptions are true), but the intentional use of a racist word is even worse.  Words are just letter, but meanings and intent can be very harmful.[/quote]

People who prattle on about anti-White racism are tiresome and have poor character. Sure, both are bad. Anti-Black racism is entrenched, endemic, and deadly. Trot your faux victimization wares to someone else. Signed, Middle Aged White Lady[/quote]

So, to be clear, ma’am: it’s ok for you to use a racist word intentionally to call out another’s use of a racist word (assuming you are correct as I don’t know) unintentionally.  Interesting times.[/quote]

“[b]Assuming you are correct as I don’t know”??? Educate yourself. Google is your friend. You have been given a heads up that it is a horrible thing to say. Is this still common refrain by students at UF in 2022? Embarrassing [/quote][/b]

All I know, ma’am is that you were not only name-calling, but used a racist name to call out the offender.  No one else was name calling nor using a racist word with harmful intent, but you.[/quote]

Actually, I wrote this as a NP. So I wasn’t name calling or using any racist names. Never have and never will. Just stop.[/quote]

But you did automatically assume one party was white, correct?  You inserted race by assuming the original poster was white and using a racial term intentionally. Many folks are this earth (white, black, brown, etc) have used that expression, especially a student from  a school that has an alligator as a mascot, not knowing about a picture 100 years ago. “ _____ (insert any predator) bait” is a pretty common expression.  But again, you assumed those using it are white and we’re doing it until ally. That’s the classic example of racism, ma’am.  And, I’m a URM, so I am speaking from a position of knowledge. You should know that too, and do better.[/quote]

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