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[Hyper Sensitive News] NYC Spanish Teacher Fired For Using 'Negro'

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by percicles, May 24, 2013.

  1. Dairy Ashford

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    Pairing them is part of the absurdity, particularly since River's "only in America" statement implies there is some kind of widely expressed anti-black bias, related to these two scenarios, beyond the board itself. That's not even considering the fact that several white posters criticized the white student in the previous scenario for yelling at his teacher. River's presenting a contrived dichotomy and making flatly dishonest assumptions about minor students' academic privacy to assert a fundamentally false notion of racial persecution.
     
  2. CometsWin

    CometsWin Breaker Breaker One Nine

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    Honestly, I find it kind of rude. Mexicans I've found in particular use it in a way that comes off as giving an extremely negative connotation.
     
  3. AroundTheWorld

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    How about "negrito"? Sounds kind of cute, doesn't it?
     
  4. Dairy Ashford

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    I've only heard that once: in the "Edmund Perry" TV movie, when he and the other Exeter kids went to Spain and the waiter wouldn't serve him.
     

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