[Vision2020] Double Standard

[Don Coombs]

  J Ford wrote:
> Then you are choosing to be blind.  When is the last time you heard of a 
> black being fired or canceled or getting the same kind of heat that a 
> white person does for saying "nigger", black, negro or some other 
> perceived slur?
> 
If your point was in the first place valid, you have by 
now made it. And made it, etc.

As many on V2020 have pointed out, there is a 
difference between "in-group" use of a term and the use 
of the same term in public -- applying it to someone in 
the group -- by somebody who is not a member of the group.

If African Americans came up with a despicable slang 
term for Whites and called one of them that, then THAT 
would be parallel to Whites calling an African American 
something offensive. ("Honky" doesn't seem all that 
bad. I guess it's difficult to come up with despicable 
terms for people in the majority.)

(Well, maybe not. How 'bout "arrogant" and "ignorant" 
to describe our government's approach to the rest of 
the world? No, those aren't despicable terms; they're 
fairly reasonable descriptive terms.)

Don Coombs