we've had politicians resign over this

fucking ridiculous.

>>At a February meeting of the Faculty Senate, a junior English major and vice chairwoman of the Black Student Union told the group how a professor teaching Chaucer had used the word niggardly. She said the professor continued to use the word even after she told him that she was offended. "I was in tears, shaking," she told the faculty. "It's not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid."

It's silly, yeah, but then again I've never used the word other than to get laughs over the niggardly/nigger similarity.

That makes me snigger.

ah, yes, the semantic left. too bad you cant afford a proper one

>>244036
but it's not...it doesn't mean...it just sounds like...

:|

Niggers need to stop being so butthurt and whites need to quit being so sensitive.

First they came for niggardly... next they'll be saying we can't use "chink" as an onomatopoeia

>>244048
Whites are not very sensitive for the most part

>>244053

I remember when I was in Twelth Night in high school we had at least one person a night come up and bitch at us for saying niggardly. We eventually cut the line after our Sir Toby got punched in the face during class.

>>244048
This.

>>244036
This is the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. She's an English major complaining about how a word SOUNDS the same as another one? Fuck, that's like me complaining about the word 'donkey' and wanting it banned because it sounds like honkey.

>>244063
You could probably do that. Go ahead and try

>>"It's not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid."

I guess no one else minded?

>>244068

Everyone else was adult enough to understand the difference between the two words.

>>244068
Roughly how many black students would you expect to see in a college class?

>>244063
Well it'd cause a shitstorm in the daily mail. Annoying the daily mail and its readership almost makes it worthwhile in itself.

>>244068

Maybe they were trying to explain that the two words are completely unrelated and she couldn't hear them because she was too busy bawling and convulsing on the floor.

>>244073
It depends on the time period and specific college

The problem is that we let niggers get away with behavior like this. If we let them control our language, pretty soon they'll be controlling our thoughts.

It will be like 1984 except Lil' Wayne is Big Brother.

I hate niggers...

>>244088
Really? Why?

>>244088
dude, not cool.

>>244088

This isn't /b/, you have to give a reason.

For the record I'm on your side.

>>244088

88 GET 0/

>>244082
Don't worry. The Jews will stop them first.

>>244074
Annoying the mail is a worthwhile pursuit, but far too easy to really be satisfying.

>>244088
gb2/b/

>>244036

That is such a crock of shit. People who are that sensitive should just go live in a fucking bubble. I don't get offended when I walk down the cleaning isle and see spic and span. People need to grow up.

>>244179
haha you are a jobless lazy mexican??

>>244182

No I am an employed Puerto Rican.

I don't get this whole "offended" this as a whole.

If someone calls me a "fucking dick" I won't be "offended" but instead logically think about the situation and seek for the truth value of the accusation. Whether I find it to be false or true doesn't matter, "offended" never enters the picture.

I think it's a load of bullshit made up by/for people who don't think (logically).

>>244179
As a good spic I once knew said "I don't greet my friends with 'yo mah beaner!' either."

>>244227
Well we can't all be emotionally retarded, I suppose

Reminds me of a TV-interview I saw a while ago. A white writer had written a book about inner-city families, including their observations about race and the stereotypical preference of black men for big booties. In the audience was one of those "African Lionesses" being asspained about how racists this all was and stuff, and thankfully everyone else disagreeing with her.

Including the writer's black girlfriend.

Fuck these people.

>>244237

>Emotionally retarded

Explain, please.

>>244036
I fucking lost. I MAD.

>>244254
Oh wow, that's "I'm not racist I got a black friend" 2.0.

I'd be surprised if a white writer's "observations" about black people wasn't thinly-veiled racism.

>>244281
Oh wow, that's "if a white guy says it, it's racist" 2.0.

So I assume you're against black people saying shit about whites, too? Because I can't wait to see Chris Rock in jail.

>>244295
I didn't say it was illegal, so I don't know where jail came from. But a white writer waltzing into a poor neighborhood and doing a study on the people like's he's Jane fucking Goodall? That's an inherently racist proposition. Not that he *meant* to be racist - he meant to be "contreversial" to sell books, but still, that's fucked.

Chris Rock tells JOKES - he doesn't "study" white people like they're a different species.

>>244336
*controversial, rather

>>244336

I'm sure you're making a lot of assumptions. The guy could have been doing some sort of sociological study on people in inner cities or from a low socioeconomic status. They could have just happened to be blacks and Hispanics.

>>244027
>>244036
link to this article

>>244036
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>244281
YEAH IM SURE HES DATING A BLACK WOMAN JUST TO GET AWAY WITH A FEW VEILED RACIST OBSERVATIONS
you fucking people...

>>244413
I wasn't suggesting that. I was just pointing out that just because a dude has a black girlfriend, that doesn't mean he doesn't have some racist attitudes

found it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22

>>244418
have you read the fucking book to make such presumptions or are you one of the u divine professionally offended? maybe it's just a hobby?

>>244419
Good lord. Black guy here, that article is making me rage like a motherfucker. How can these people honestly lodge racial slur complaints after the meaning of the word has been clearly explained to them? It has no racial connotation! I don't understand it at all.

>>244036
>>244036
>>244036
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>Dennis Boaz, a history teacher, sued the administrators of the Mendocino County Office of Education for defamation.[9] Mr. Boaz, who was bargaining for Ukiah schoolteachers, wrote a letter saying that the "tenor of the negotiation tactics of the district office has become increasingly negative and niggardly." The response was a memo from one defendant of the lawsuit that implied that Boaz was racist, and a letter cosigned by the other defendant and nine other individuals in the Mendocino County school system stating that Boaz's comments were "racially charged and show a complete lack of respect and integrity toward Dr. Nash, Ukiah Unified District Superintendent," who is black.

>>244452
>>244452
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I am seriously about to go outside and punch a black person.

so would a miserly and stingy person be called a niggard?

>>244336
It's a book. Fiction. With characters. Who are black. That puts it on exactly the same level as Chris Rock. Or maybe not. As Chris Rock is openly racist.

But it's telling that you just assume it's some guy wading in there with a pith helmet, taking sketches of the natives. Just because he's white. Kinda racist, really.

And the jail comes from... Well, if people do things they're not allowed to do (like being racist when they're really not), where do they go? Right.

>The public controversies caused some commentators to speculate that "niggardly" would be used more often, both in its correct sense and as fodder for humor, as a racist code word or both.
HEY FELLOW RACISTS! GET OUT YOUR SUPER SECRET DECODER RINGS!!!!

>>244475

Yes.

niggardly is now the greatest troll word in modern english

I never knew this word existed until just now. Thanks /lit/, now I'm going to be tempted to troll niggers and say niggardly all day. Then the novelty will wear off.

>>244511
>>244504
Agreed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22

/thread

>>244524

>>244524
Idiot

OK, this is where it will all end:

There's a place in England called Scunthorpe.

Consider the second, third, fourth and fifth letters of Scunthorpe, and then check this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

>That's naïve, especially for a white person, because a white person can't afford [thus in original; probably intended "can afford"] to be colorblind. They don't have to think about race every day. An African American does."[1]

It's shit like this that convinces me this world needs another big war.

>>244524
>ROW ROW
>SLOW THE POWAH