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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are equating a clearly racist term like anchor baby with vanilla terms like courage and valor then you are clueless...or perhaps just really racist.[/quote]

You kind of missed the point.  Figures.[/quote]

Nope. You think you are making a valid point, but you are not.

Sticking with your rationalization, there's nothing wrong with wetback, spic, chink, nigger, etc.

You can't carve out a special exception for anchor baby since anchor and baby when used separately are acceptable words. It doesn't work that way. It's a racist, derogatory term. Period. [/quote]

I would never say the above terms, much less type them. Anchor baby is not in the above category. There is not debate about the acceptability of your words above. There is not debate that FU is a gross swear word.  There is debate about anchor baby. It is a politicized term, and last I heard-it was actually acceptable in the United States for people to disagree over politics.  The point is if we focus on parsing every word with nuance to the 9th degree  we may end up not being able to 'talk' at all. Except in FUs, which I guess you don't find offensive.  You seem very comfortable with the picking and choosing if you are the one doing it?

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There is no debate about the racist connotation of that term. Only you and a smattering of racists are defending it. Here's the litmus test: can you say that term to a latino's face? How about at the office? Or on the playground? No. The answer (of course) is no.

You sound like one of those "good Christians" who smugly tells their Jewish colleagues "Merry Christmas!"

Context matters. And there's no context where you can call a Latino in 2015 an anchor baby or say that into a microphone without being called a racist...unless, of course, you are a republican presidential candidate rallying the racist base. [/quote]

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