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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][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]

NP. So you are saying that if you are non-white it is okay to say gator bait? No one should say it, regardless of the color of their skin. I don’t think any assumption was made about the race of the person saying the comment. The point is that this is an inappropriate to say In 2022 and to educate yourself if you didn’t know what it means. I think everyone can agree it is not an appropriate thing to say. I also think some people may not have ever thought of the origins of the phrase. [/quote]

NP here - But if you read the string, someone brought up the white race in this. No one previously identified as such.  Clearly a racist assumption.  No one used a word in a racist context until a white derogatory name was called. Also, the White MIddle Age Lady said she is sick of white defense. Who’s white in all this??  Again, racially motivated.[/quote]

Agreed. And the very fact she describes herself, leading with her age, race, gender (“Middle Age White Lady”), demonstrates she likely subscribed to identify politics or seeing others by the color of their skin or other generalizations.  Let’s let’s recap, as this is getting confusing:

1. Poster One of an unknown race uses a derogatory racial term (likely unintentionally, as it wasn’t in a racial context), but still wrong and cringe-worthy nonetheless.

2. Poster Two calls calls out Poster One, using a derogatory racial name (in context as racist and clearly intentional).

3. Poster Three (self identified as white, middle aged, female) says she is not Poster Two, but that she is tired of a typical white defense (paraphrased).

4. Poster Four calls out Poster Three for assuming a specific race (white) is involved in this discussion at all.

My scorecard says Poster One should apologize for the inadvertent use of a racially charged term.  Poster Two is the worst offender by name calling with a racially charged word on purpose, and should apologize and do better.  Poster Two and Three should also apologize for assumptions based on skin color of any poster who didn’t identify as such.  Poster Three should also look deep and promise to do better as she clearly leads with race, gender, age, etc (yikes - trifecta!).  Now, here’s the mind-blowing hypothesis: Poster Two and Poster Three are the same person!  Should do all of the above and then use soap.

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