ignorance of some people truly amazes me

[Rangerscott]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

Meanings for words are only "correct" because usage makes it so... Dog=a four legged animal because we have decided that it is what it means. There have been many words that have changed meaning over the history of language. Are you honestly saying that the current meaning/usage is invalid because you say so or because there was a previous meaning? Again, cunt, bitch, slut all had different and even innocuous meanings in the past. Usage has changed that.

Words do not change. Definitions are added. If you called your grand dad pappa and one day society decides to add another definition to pappa, with it now meaning pedophile, are you going to stop calling your grand dad pappa just cause a group of people think it needs to mean something else?

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Words do not change. Definitions are added. If you called your grand dad pappa and one day society decides to add another definition to pappa, with it now meaning pedophile, are you going to stop calling your grand dad pappa just cause a group of people think it needs to mean something else?

A "group of people"? Go ahead and lie to me, tell me that when you hear the word nigger that you don't immediately think of a black person. If you were standing in a store and someone shouted, "Look out that nigger has a gun!!!" that you wouldn't look for a black guy. Sure, okay...


Denial...

[derf]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

A "group of people"? Go ahead and lie to me, tell me that when you hear the word nigger that you don't immediately think of a black person. If you were standing in a store and someone shouted, "Look out that nigger has a gun!!!" that you wouldn't look for a black guy. Sure, okay...


Denial...

Um duh, obvious association.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by derf

Um duh, obvious association.

Yea I know...it's just that some people claim that they don't consider the descriptive of black people, ie "my Grandpa calls white people niggers" but your grandpa was using the word as an insult, basically saying that those white guys were acting like black guys.