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  • Race Card Backfire

    In the Sci-Fi section in my store, we have several chairs. Now this area, the Romance Section, and the kid section garner the most mess from lazy customers. People even bring over magazines, a good 75 ft walk, to read.

    So yesterday, i'm in Sci-Fi pulling Returns and Strips. This guy comes to the group of seats, with a stack of magazines, and sits down. Sometime later, he dumps the last magazine in the seat next to him and starts to leave.

    Me: "Excuse me, put back your magazines!"
    SC: *Turns Around* "What did you say to me?"
    Me: "Put back the magazines you dumped in the....."
    SC: "Your picking on me because i'm black. You hate Niggers!!"
    Me: "......I don't give a damn if you call yourself a Martian or if you have Gold Skin, either you put the magazines back on the shelf, or i'll have Mall Security escort you off of mall property."

    Luckily for me, two of my co-workers were also helping me, and just so happens a Mall Security Officer turns the corner.....

  • #2
    What?

    What ?????? I am Black, I would never consider calling myself the N-word which basically is what he just did. Does he have such a low opinion of himself?

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    • #3
      Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
      What ?????? I am Black, I would never consider calling myself the N-word which basically is what he just did. Does he have such a low opinion of himself?
      I'll be honest, I use any amount of derogatory terms on myself. The best way to shrug off something mean is to turn around and make it your own. I call myself a fat Mick b*tch all the time. How bad can it be if I refuse to be put down and/or embarrassed by it? Like Margaret Cho talking about people calling her a "fat d*ke".... "I just don't see how that is an insult," she wonders aloud. "That means I would get to eat fried chicken AND p*ssy." Until the day that people will stop with the name-calling, you gotta have coping tactics.
      "I don't have to take this abuse from you, I've got hundreds of people dying to abuse me."
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      • #4
        Quoth Hon'ya-chan View Post
        SC: "Your picking on me because i'm black. You hate Niggers!!"
        2. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.

        Well, don't we all?

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        • #5
          Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
          What ?????? I am Black, I would never consider calling myself the N-word which basically is what he just did. Does he have such a low opinion of himself?
          I don't think it was a case of the SC calling himself that word. I think it just reinforced the act of him accusing the OP of being racist, and thinking of all black people as... that word (God, I hate that word, and I'm white.)
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          • #6
            Quoth unclejampuff View Post
            I'll be honest, I use any amount of derogatory terms on myself. The best way to shrug off something mean is to turn around and make it your own.
            I so agree! I'm SPICKtacular lol!
            Last edited by Ree; 03-07-2008, 03:30 AM. Reason: Editing quote

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            • #7
              Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
              What ?????? I am Black, I would never consider calling myself the N-word which basically is what he just did. Does he have such a low opinion of himself?
              It has nothing to do with low self-esteem. Nearly every black person in my area uses the word "nigger" extensively to refer to themselves, anyone they know that is also black, and sometimes (rarely) people who aren't black, although for that, they seem to prefer the word "homey". Also, the phrase "my sister/brother" is also turning into "my nigger" or sometimes just "my nig".

              You know how teens use the word "like" waaaaaay too much? Change that to "nigger" and you can get an idea of just how often it gets tossed around in casual everyday speech.

              I rather suspect it's some reverse-racism thing because it's seen as ok for them to use it, but if a non-black did, then it's not. I just think it makes them sound ignorant.

              ^-.-^
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              • #8
                Quoth Hon'ya-chan View Post
                You hate Niggers!!"
                "No, I hate ignorant slobs!"

                I wonder how it would have went over if you had said, "Sir, we don't tolerate racism in this store. If you want to use degrading, offensive language you'll have to do it somewhere else."

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                • #9
                  UGH
                  at work, the majority of the people i work with are black and indian. They regularly refer to themselves via derogatory terms, such as the N word, K***** and C*****. I cringe whenever i hear it....
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                  • #10
                    the N word is used in america(among african americans) much like the word "dude" it really doesn't mean anything when exchanged among african americans, and I have friends who just call everyone that word. if you want an example just put on some 50 cent, or an episode of chappelle's show


                    even if other minorities say it it's not as big of a deal, but if a white person says it you might get shot

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                    • #11
                      It is disempowerment. If a minority uses a derogatory term about itself, it becomes less hurtful when the word is used against them by the rest of society.
                      "I can tell her you're all tied up in the projection room." Sunset Boulevard.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth cinema guy View Post
                        It is disempowerment. If a minority uses a derogatory term about itself, it becomes less hurtful when the word is used against them by the rest of society.
                        At least, that's what Black people say in order to justify using that word. If it actually DID become less hurtful, then there would be a point where I would not slap the shit out of my White husband for using it. As it stands, my brother and sister know not to use that word around me.

                        OP, you should have said what a previous poster said about racist language not being tolerated in your store. I would LOVE to have seen his face!
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                        • #13
                          Quoth KnitShoni View Post
                          At least, that's what Black people say in order to justify using that word. If it actually DID become less hurtful, then there would be a point where I would not slap the shit out of my White husband for using it. As it stands, my brother and sister know not to use that word around me.

                          OP, you should have said what a previous poster said about racist language not being tolerated in your store. I would LOVE to have seen his face!
                          It also has to do with the familiar vs the unfamiliar.

                          Have you ever (rhretorical) talked to someone about an asshole in your family only to have them verbally agree and start to talk bad about them? How many people wouldn't feel at least minorly offended about how THEY could talk about your family like that?!

                          As wrong as it is (you bad mouthed them first), we instinctively side with our group (be it team, family, race, company, etc). How many times have we seen a mother take up for a criminal child, when they know it's wrong?

                          You may say I am reaching, but that is really the only corollary that works. There is a reason why blacks can say it and whites can't (right or wrong).

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                          • #14
                            Quoth unclejampuff View Post
                            I'll be honest, I use any amount of derogatory terms on myself.
                            Same here... although this actually started cause of a bartender I know. She said some guy had called her a Daego Potato (purely in jest, I assure you), as he found out she was of Irish Italian descent. Me, being actually Irish, of Italian descent, dubbed myself a Potato Daego from then on.

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                            • #15
                              When someone says something like that, they believe that you will be so embarassed at being labled as a racist, that you will do anything to prove you are not.

                              Want to know what I say to deflate that manipulative little script?

                              Race-card Playing Douche: "You hate n:ensored:s! (I cant' even bring myself to type it. Bleh.)

                              Me: Yes, I do.

                              RCPD:

                              People hate it when you don't play by the script. All of a sudden, here's a person who isnt' bothered by being labled with something ugly. All of a sudden, their race card doesn't work. And they just don't know how to react.

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