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Fair point. I've revamped the sig for you, brosef.you want me to dial back the race-baiting? bruh when's the last time you looked at ya sig?
If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.
Gay isn't morphed into an offensive term. You were trying to morph "flower" into an offensive term. You and only you was giving the word power.
Fair point. I've revamped the sig for you, brosef.you want me to dial back the race-baiting? bruh when's the last time you looked at ya sig?
If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change.
SMH. You are stuck in some very myopic thinking. You are basically equating "honky or cracka" to flower. Basically your argument is solely about one word and how blacks essentially are the only people who can be offended. You are also arguing how changing one letter, despite the intent being the same in some cases, changes everything. Can you not see how that is quite silly?
cool. i had you on my ignore list for quite a while after the trayvon verdict. i didn't realize who's alias this was until a few days ago.
You got me all wrong buddy. I'm aware that "honky" may offend some people for some reason (for what reason, you never explained). The problem is when you said that someone calling you "honky" would offend you the same as someone calling you a "flower" because of the person's intent to offend you. YOU are the one equating it, not me. You would re-create a word into an offensive word just because of your pride. You don't see how silly that is?
save ya keystrokes, creep.
It's an outrage that the Eagles told Cooper to take some time off. Total outrage. I am seriously considering stepping up as the white man's Al Sharpton over this .
Seriously after all the white guilt bull the negro man has put us through over the past 150 years. We have allowed them to vote. We have allowed them to own property. We have allowed them to gain employment on an almost even level as the white man. We have allowed them to sell crack cocaine to our school children. We have allowed them the freedom to apparently become rap stars who stomp on the American flag. We have allowed them to become President of our country. What is the big deal over one white man dropping some n-bombs at a country music event? The white man is naturally and righteously prone to dropping n-bombs, especially at hallowed redneck events such as a Kenny Chesney concert or a NASCAR race. Riley Cooper is guilty of no crime other than being white. Next thing you know, the President will go on TV and say that if he had a son, he would be the kind of person Riley Cooper said he would fight, and the media will pressure law enforcement to charge Mr. Cooper with crimes he has no business being charged with. This is an outrage and we will not stand for it.
I'm gonna go buy a pack of Marlboro Blacks and ask the clerk if they're on sale for 3/5ths the cost of a regular pack.
No. I'm trying to prove the point that the word is not the issue. No matter what it is. Especially if you are arguing about words in the context of just changing one letter around. You are equating the difference in the letter and the power of the N word(s). I am telling to you rise above this terrible logic and recognize that intent is what matters.
vick may have been more offended if cooper had said to him: 'what's up dog ?"
*unfollows vick*
Nah sorry man, I'm not going to give a powerless word power whatever context it is in. Someone calls me a flower, I would just laugh at the person. I want you to stop acting like a flower and be the bigger man DPG. Stick with the words that are already born with negativity and go from there. Don't re-create words because there are already enough bad words in our language.
That doesn't make any sense. But to each their own. BTW, I know you know this, but I was just giving examples and it was not literally "me" getting mad or giving power. I didn't feel the need to explain at first, but I thought I might as well because you did not seem to be getting it.
What if Cooper said porch monkey or spook?
You didn't.
And a slur is just a word that people get offended at. The only reason why it has power is because people keep owning it. I'd much rather a person call me the N-word while still showing me respect in the work place and even being friends with me than a person refraining from using it but still acting prejudiced. As far as my opinion of Cooper goes, it only thing that would matter to me is if he'd be less inclined to have interaction with me than he would a white fan.
Sure, he's to blame. But a person who steps out in traffic and gets hit is also to blame. That doesn't make the carnage better.
And I agree with people who keep talking about fake outrage. He doesn't owe his teammates an apology for using the word, maybe an explanation, but that's it. He wasn't saying it to them, or about them, so it's not their offense to take. He does owe them an apology for creating this distraction, though.
What a crock of . No amount of counseling or apologizing is going to change a thing. Either you cut him for using unbelievably bad judgement or you accept his apology and move on. No amount of counseling or taking time off is going to change a thing. It's all a show for PR reasons.
All I can say is I really wish he wasn't wearing flannel at a Kenny Chesney concert.
I have a question....Who in the saw that video & was like "OMG! That's Riley Cooper saying the N-Word." If I were a nobody like him I would have felt relatively safe spewing garbage like that too. He looked like every other cracker there.
Eagles got a strong effort from their starters tonight. Vick and Foles looked good, and Riley Cooper and Jackson had nice catches. Matt Barkley coming in now.
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