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01-05-2009, 03:20 PM | #181 (permalink) | |
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01-05-2009, 11:00 PM | #185 (permalink) |
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Damnit, you guys are making me hungry!
Is Lars Danish anyways, or does he have danish background? I always thought he had German ancestry, but I could easily be wrong...
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01-06-2009, 01:51 AM | #186 (permalink) |
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'Race' is a sketchy concept. Danish in reality is no less a 'race' than something like 'Mexican'. What if he had been talking about a band with a Mexican drummer, and called that drummer a "good-for-nothing Mexican a$$hole"? People would have immediately found that abhorrent.
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01-06-2009, 09:21 AM | #187 (permalink) |
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only if their mexican sympathizers.
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01-06-2009, 09:27 AM | #188 (permalink) |
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If you really find a problem with the post Rainard then please report it. I personally would'nt consider it derogatory or racist. Calling someone Danish when they are Danish is hardly racism really.
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01-06-2009, 09:30 AM | #189 (permalink) | |
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01-06-2009, 09:55 AM | #190 (permalink) | |
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It might be true that he is Mexican and also happens to be an a$$hole, but the construction 'a [x nationality] a$$hole' carries the implication of there being some connection between his being an a$$hole and his given nationality. Such phrases are conventionally used in the context of prejudice. E.g. if somebody said 'he is a black idiot'. It may be true that the subject of discussion is an idiot and also happens to be black, but phrasing it in that way suggests a prejudice and some connection between his race and his being an idiot. |
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