tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post825404174391990523..comments2024-03-24T17:06:47.135-04:00Comments on Story Bones: Linkee-poo is a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all my daysSteve Buchheithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-34931541834234430162015-02-24T22:07:58.189-05:002015-02-24T22:07:58.189-05:00Well, the thing is that she knew the word. It woul...Well, the thing is that she knew the word. It would be kinda hard to fake or make up something like that. So the word was in her vocabulary. She might not have known its racist derivation, but from contextual use she might have been able to figure it out. This is one of those events where the unexamined privilege suddenly becomes very apparent. Steve Buchheithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12999709767641212586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19111384.post-6784298567256148752015-02-24T14:31:56.979-05:002015-02-24T14:31:56.979-05:00I'd actually never heard of that word before--...I'd actually never heard of that word before--and it being an entirely new word to me, I would have looked it up before using it (especially before using it on teevee, for frak's sake).<br /><br />The FIRST definition DuckDuckGo comes up with is: "Used as a disparaging term for a black person." <br /><br />So no, this Capel person absolutely should not get a pass, not when it would've taken literally five seconds to educate herself.Bonnie McDanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03844134292228113704noreply@blogger.com