Two bombs exploded in New York...

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

I don't knowingly post false information:

Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?_r=0

As for my choice of words, it was deliberate, to provoke someone who thinks whites are superior.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

I don't knowingly post false information:

Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?_r=0

As for my choice of words, it was deliberate, to provoke someone who thinks whites are superior.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

Then call them "white" people rather than use a childish and disparaging word.

In any case, it's not actually true - is it?

I don't knowingly post false information:

Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, including the recent mass killing in Charleston, S.C., compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?_r=0

As for my choice of words, it was deliberate, to provoke someone who thinks whites are superior.

That's a daft way to try to goad someone. It's just using a racial slur - the very thing which you claim you don't like.

Ben Reilly wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

That's a daft way to try to goad someone. It's just using a racial slur - the very thing which you claim you don't like.

"Pasty" is a derogatory description of someone's complexion, not their ethnicity.



She's not White European, but as pasty as they come!

eddie wrote:Rags, I have called my child pasty.
"I don't think my my daughter is feeling well...she's looking pasty"

It's a way of describing someone who's whiter than white. A very fair-skinned white person.
Blacks call a certain shade of black,  "red skin"...

"Josh is a red skin guy"

eddie wrote:I think you're over-exaggerating your hatred of the word because you've made it your bone of contention.
I bet you've used it in the past yourself to describe someone who's looked unwell, for example.

Added further to that, I have said many times and loudly, that I disagree with most (all?) other admin here about banning words -  so calling someone 'pasty' is such a mild and nothing term, that I'd hardly have noticed it at all if you hadn't made a whole meal out of your contention bone.

Raggamuffin wrote:

eddie wrote:I think you're over-exaggerating your hatred of the word because you've made it your bone of contention.
I bet you've used it in the past yourself to describe someone who's looked unwell, for example.

Added further to that, I have said many times and loudly, that I disagree with most (all?) other admin here about banning words -  so calling someone 'pasty' is such a mild and nothing term, that I'd hardly have noticed it at all if you hadn't made a whole meal out of your contention bone.

I think you're deliberately misunderstanding Ben's intention. He has admitted that he used it in a derogatory way because the people he was talking about are/were white - it's nothing to do with them being unwell. You really don't get the issue of double standards do you? All the bleating on here about racism, and then the admin come out with racial slurs themselves.

The Devil, You Know wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

I think you're deliberately misunderstanding Ben's intention. He has admitted that he used it in a derogatory way because the people he was talking about are/were white - it's nothing to do with them being unwell. You really don't get the issue of double standards do you? All the bleating on here about racism, and then the admin come out with racial slurs themselves.

I just wonder why white liberals hate themselves and others so much for things that happened before they were born and have no responsibility for and feel the incessant need to apologise for them.

eddie wrote:How does using the term "pasty" mean you hate yourself?
Fucking hell. Talk about taking a point and running so far with it, you lose your way!

Raggamuffin wrote:

eddie wrote:How does using the term "pasty" mean you hate yourself?
Fucking hell. Talk about taking a point and running so far with it, you lose your way!

The term was "pasty-face", and it's clearly a derogative term for white people. If you can't see that, that's your problem.