Are you offended when...

[QUOTE="nocoolnamejim"]Can't say it has ever happened to me. There aren't a ton of black people wandering around in Idaho where I live. :)robobie

Did that smiley face represent you being happy that their are no black people where you live?

Are you offended if your white and a non white person calls you white boy/girl and stuff along the lines of that...

or If your Black and someone refers to you as black person etc......no bad words..example..."hey white boy/black guy come over here"

cee1gee

I wouldn't feel offended, I would just feel... white...

I don't think I'd like someone on the street calling me boy no matter what their race was. As to someone black calling me white boy, I wouldn't like it, but I see double standards against whites as being karmic. Not that I think two wrongs make a right, but that I think many white people simply don't get it, and if having to see for themselves a tiny little piece of what things were like for African Americans for a majority of our history is what it takes for them to get it then so be it. I would rather they would learn to see the black perspective through more intellectual means, however.

I'm white, and I don't think I'd get offended if a racially derogative word was used against me. Obviously it's not nice if someone's trying to insult you, but the actual word he used to do so wouldn't concern me. I can't say it's ever happened to me though.

never happened to me

I kept my mouth shut though I damn well know him and his little friends would be pissed if I called him black boy. Wilfred_Owen

Would I be offended? No. Would I ignore them? Yes. :)

I would be somewhat offended if the person was serious.

cracker, honky, whitey..... nope, not offended at all!

but i can guarantee you, if i threw out something like that at other races, the lawsuits would fly at me so fast i'd be dodging loafers and bad ties for a year.

but i can guarantee you, if i threw out something like that at other races, the lawsuits would fly at me so fast i'd be dodging loafers and bad ties for a year.

z4twenny

Personally, I prefer a societal double standard to centuries of slavery, forced emigration from my home country, centuries more of social inequality leading to economic disparity among other things, and then to top it off white people going around acting as if they're oppressed simply because a black person calling them whitey is seen as less egregious than them reciprocating in a similar fashion.

I'm neither white or black :D

Depends on the context and the intentions of the person saying it.