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Is the word "wigger" offensive to you?
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themadcowtipper
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Nope, but I like the word Cracker, just a funny ass word... "Cracker Ass Cracker" I throw that into any conversation ...Bless you Chris Rock.
And Wiggers are stupid...cue pics of the Icy Hot Stunaz
And Wiggers are stupid...cue pics of the Icy Hot Stunaz
Star Power
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I think it's an ignorant term to use, but it doesn't really offend me, nor does the 'original' ( :lol original epithets).
I'm white, and have used that word plenty of times in real life to describe dorky white kids who are convinced they are black. Never meant it in a harmful way to black people, just in a harmful way to those dorky white kids 
Whom I just thought were a tri state area thing, but apparently even the UK have their own variety of them!
Whom I just thought were a tri state area thing, but apparently even the UK have their own variety of them!the word is not offensive, but the people are.
people lived in the ghetto for years to create their own style out of it (wife beater). I don't get why they feel the need to emulate another ghetto style.
Oh wait, I forgot it is all suburban white kids who are nowhere near the ghetto and want to appear tough.
:lol
people lived in the ghetto for years to create their own style out of it (wife beater). I don't get why they feel the need to emulate another ghetto style.
Oh wait, I forgot it is all suburban white kids who are nowhere near the ghetto and want to appear tough.
:lol
Star Power
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The whole term is just wrong. First off, it assumes that there's a certain way of acting "black." Secondly, it totally disregards the fact that some white people grow up in all black neighborhoos/ in a 'ghetto.' And, lastly, it's needlessly harsh.. I mean, SO WHAT if people want to wear baggy jeans and speak ebonics? How is it harming you? Do you have a problem with black people who have piercings and talk like valley girls and go to punk rock concerts? It's so hypocritical. Plus, it has obvious racist undertones ( I mean.. 'cmon.. it ties right back to that archaic "I don't my children listenen' to that nigger music, it'll rub off on them")
Alyssa Hu$tle
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I'm with you scrow... never heard of it before this thread.Scrow said:
Boogie9IGN
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themadcowtipper
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themadcowtipper
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Blackace
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DarienA said:
You do know where the word Honky comes from?
It is because they honk right before they hit you!! I thank my father for this nugget of wisdom! Any black man who made it through the south in the 30s and 40s knows his stuff
Blackace said:
Uh... ok.... this is the origin story I heard:
Many philologists claim that the word honky derives from the Wolof honq, of light complexion. According to Jesse Sheidlower in his article Crying Wolof, it actually derives from an African-American pronunciation of hunky, a disparaging term for Hungarian laborers. The first recorded use of the word honky "as an insulting term for a white person is found only in the 1950s."
......weird.
Escape Goat
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themadcowtipper
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Ice actually has some talent...that one Icy Hot Stuntaz song I posted wasnt that bad either...El_Victor said:
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I be all thirsty and shit.
Anyway, I never really found it derogative ... then again, I am white. It was just some word to describe the white "ghetto" kids. And it's not like black kids don't do it either. By it, I'm referring to the process of spending inordinate amounts of your hard earned parents money to make yourself look like your parents don't have any money. I see plenty of them at my university and I can garauntee you that they didn't grow up in any area where such culture was originated. Come to think of it, the commercialization of ghetto culture has always struck me as odd.
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Star Power said:
star power hit the nail right on the head--i couldn't agree more. i'm white and listen to hiphop all the time and can't stand being thought of as a 'wigger'... however, i don't wear throwback jerseys or air force ones and i don't have any 'bling', so perhaps most people wouldn't think of me that way.
either way, as a white dude who listens to hiphop regularly, i find the term offensive. i also find white suburban kids who are just 'trying to hard' offensive.
The Faceless Master
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yeah, it's pretty offensive...
it's like saying "white nigger"...
it's almost making it okay to say nigger, except saying it to someone who's white because they "dress like a nigger" or "act like a nigger"...
whatever...
it's like saying "white nigger"...
it's almost making it okay to say nigger, except saying it to someone who's white because they "dress like a nigger" or "act like a nigger"...
whatever...
Brian Fellows
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andthebeatgoeson
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Yeah it's offensive for the same reasons people have been stating.
andthebeatgoeson
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Exactly. How others can use the word with a straight face and not consider it just as offensive as nigger is strange to me.
No way. It CAN'T offend me. I don't dress up like Eminem and pretend I was raised in the hood (like so many 15 year olds who have parents that make six figure salaries do). If a black man calls a white man a wigger, he probably has a good reason. Hell, I call white kids wiggers all the fucking time. I work with a wigger. There, I said it.
Hell, I call white kids wiggers all the fucking time. I work with a wigger. There, I said it.Star Power
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Diablos said:No way. It CAN'T offend me. I don't dress up like Eminem and pretend I was raised in the hood (like so many 15 year olds who have parents that make six figure salaries do). If a black man calls a white man a wigger, he probably has a good reason.
Do you work with a nigger as well?
Star Power
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I work with a nigger. His name is Bob. Nice guy.
I'm black and it doesn't offend me. It does infer that Wigger=White Nigger therefore Nigger=Black person=materialistic idiot, but I'm not offended by Nigger either.
The only way one can be offended by these words is if one actually takes them seriously. My friends and I joke on each other using racial slurs all the time and no one takes offense because we pretty much dilute any powerful meaning the words ever had to us. I don't see myself as a Nigger, so why should the word nigger bother me?
The way other black people try to stop other races from using the word, it almost seems like they're protecting the meaning, instead of being happy that the word is becoming archaic and will soon lose it's offensive connotations.
The only way one can be offended by these words is if one actually takes them seriously. My friends and I joke on each other using racial slurs all the time and no one takes offense because we pretty much dilute any powerful meaning the words ever had to us. I don't see myself as a Nigger, so why should the word nigger bother me?
The way other black people try to stop other races from using the word, it almost seems like they're protecting the meaning, instead of being happy that the word is becoming archaic and will soon lose it's offensive connotations.
themadcowtipper
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[sarcasm]Wow glad you put nice guy in there it sure make it bettter[/sarcasm]Star Power said:
Star Power
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themadcowtipper said:
I was proving a point. I don't see why saying "I work with a wigger" is any more acceptable/ any different than saying "I work with a nigger."
Thanks for, once again, proving the hypocrisy of the people who use the word 'wigger' so frequently. You get all antsy and offended when the 'n word' is used, yet there's no problem saying, when you break it down, 'white n-word' ?
It's a good way you see things this way.Dreamfixx said:
I mean, if I were to walk up to a black guy and SERIOUSLY call him a "nigger," that's wrong.
But here's how I see it, and anyone can feel free to argue if they want. Listen to any hip-hop album. "Nigger" and "nigga" are used countless times. So while it would be kind of strange for a white kid to call his black friend a "nigga," it amazes me how some people find it degrading in that way. The word is basically marketed to the kids, black and white, thru the music, tv, movies, etc. etc...
Star Power
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Diablos said:
I totally agree, 'nigga' or 'nigger' or whatever is practically a meaningless word.. I mean, it's used with such casual apblomb amongst blacks that it's practically lost the stigma attached to it. But it's not 100% lost.
I think there's a certain thing attached to someone white saying it.. it's like, automatically a word of hate if someone white is aying it... I don't get why (well, I could see why, but it doesn't make much sense), but whatever. The way things are I guess. It's quite hypocritical, though.
Star Power said:
I think the argument here is that a "wigger" is more of a joke term. There's trash in every single race, anyone with half of a brain knows this. So the question is - why is a white kid degrading himself (and the black race, because I personally see nothing wrong with black people) by acting like someone with no manners, respect, or personality? He's EMULATING some thug stereotype that the next Bad Boy or 50 Cent artist wants the world to think of black people.
Walk through a trailerpark sometime... if you were a rich racist kid you'd probably want to use the "n" word but then realize they have the same skin color as you.
I dont find it offensive but I think the label "wigger" overgeneralizes. Ill call someone a wigger if they fit the stereotype of the rich white kid trying too hard. The problem is there are white guys who grew up in urban environments and these surroudings shape them as a person. They aren't posers and they aren't trying to be a certain way, it just who they are. I have a couple white friends who act pretty ghetto but they are cool guys. However the typical rich-kid wigger might be the most annoying personality Ive ever encountered.
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