Your Dictionary Definition of Racism Is Outdated Trash

[JEFF]

I suppose in moto's eyes the only thing to do with blacks to make things right would be to give them their own lands and bow to their every whim. Oh, and kill off enough white people to make them the minority. 

 

Oh wait...

[Cold War]

Scrabble players everywhere let out a collective gasp. 

DRIVEL...... your word is .....Drivel.

Can I get a definition?

No, you racist little piece of shit!!!!!

[motonoggin]

11 minutes ago, JEFF said:

I suppose in moto's eyes the only thing to do with blacks to make things right would be to give them their own lands and bow to their every whim. Oh, and kill off enough white people to make them the minority. 

 

Oh wait...

Black people have told you what they want. 

You haven't heard it because of your willful white ignorance.

[motonoggin]

42 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

I had to stop here.......   

 

That must have been terribly offensive to your tender feelings.

 

[Skidooski]

1 minute ago, motonoggin said:

That must have been terribly offensive to your tender feelings.

 

Not at all actually. I just kind of a laugh when they say stuff like "It was written by a bunch of white people to lay out general definitions of old white words."

Does the world need a new dictionary that isn't offensive to Black People? One written by young black's to fit what they think?

[motonoggin]

5 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

Not at all actually. I just kind of a laugh when they say stuff like "It was written by a bunch of white people to lay out general definitions of old white words."

Does the world need a new dictionary that isn't offensive to Black People? One written by young black's to fit what they think?

It is the truth? I guess I don't see why that's funny?

White people write dictionaries.

I'm sure it never once crossed your mind that biases could exist in the dictionary. It was, after all, written by white folks, and white folks have no bias.

 

[JEFF]

9 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

Black people have told you what they want. 

You haven't heard it because of your willful white ignorance.

You truly are the black whisperer aren't you...? 

[revkev6]

8 hours ago, motonoggin said:

Your Dictionary Definition of Racism Is Outdated Trash

https://www.onlyblackgirl.com/blog/2017/4/10/your-dictionary-is-trash

 by Rebekah Hutson

It’s 15 minutes into an intense reverse racism Facebook argument. You’re arguing back and forth with pesky negros who keep blabbering on and on about how reverse racism doesn’t exist. But you know that is a lie, because you were called an expired jar of mayo just last week. You’re all out of examples and insults, the blacks are winning, becoming a little too triumphant. Little do they know that you have one last fact up your sleeve. One last fact to rule them all. It’s 5 seconds left in the 4th quarter, you hit em with all you have left.

“Well the DICTIONARY says racism is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior.”

GOT EM! You do the Cotton-Eyed Joe to celebrate. You’ve won Facebook, how can anyone argue with the dictionary?

Me. I can.

I, along with any other person who uses basic logic can argue agaisnt dictionary definitions. I have come to shatter all of your reverse racism wet dreams.

So here’s the thing, the dictionary is not the law of the land. It’s a dictionary. It’s a book, it’s a pocket guide. It’s not the pirate code written in blood, it wasn’t written by god. It’s not the 10 commandments, nobody had to make human sacrifices for it. It’s a reference guide of words. It was written by a bunch of white people to lay out general definitions of old white words. The dictionary is not written to apply to social context or even to modern speech. There is no book big enough to accommodate every word and all of it’s different meanings and contexts. In fact, if you bothered to use the free resource that goes by the name of Google, you could look up “How our dictionaries are created” and you would discover the dictionaries themselves admit that words are forever changing and dictionaries are only a snapshot or popular meaning.

From Oxford Dictionary themselves:

“Our dictionary programmes constantly monitor the use of language so that our experts can identify and record the changes taking place. The result is dictionaries which give a window on to how language is used today.”

— HTTPS://WWW.OXFORDDICTIONARIES.COM/OUR-STORY/CREATING-DICTIONARIES

The term and idea of racism was invented by white people in the 17th century in order to differentiate themselves from all the pesky brown folks So of course the “I think I’m better than you” definition would fit this situation. However, after hundreds of years of white supremacy, things have shifted to far worse than just thinking you’re better than someone else based on skin color. I would declare racism dead, right now in 2017 if racism was just “someone thinking their better based on skin color”. Because who cares? We all know that’s false, but due to white supremacy shenanigans, shit was made much worse and complicated. Thus why that simplified definition does not work anymore.

I’m not sure if you skipped grade school, but I sure didn’t, and one of the first things I learn in any type of English class is that words can have multiple meanings and context exists. Dictionaries are opinions, they are based on popularity. There is no judge and jury who gets together to discuss and determine what a word means and that is what is put down in the dictionary. It’s a book of popular opinion, and when white people are the ones writing the dictionary, of the course the popular opinion of racism is going to be “someone being mean to me”. Just look at the fact that the dictionary only accommodates western English. There is no AAVE, which is an actual recognized language in linguistics, there’s not even regional language in there, because it’s not “proper” or “white”…even though Western English itself isn’t “proper English”. But we don’t have time to discuss that tea.

 read more on how the dictionary is bias trash, check out this fancily drawn cartoon. I want to focus more on how context is a thing that exists.

Context matters when we are talking about social issues. Words have social meanings that may differ than the commonly known or understood meaning. You can’t tell me “to twist”, doesn’t mean the dance you do twisting your upper and lower body in opposite directions simultaneously, just because the dictionary says it means “cause to rotate around something that remains stationary”. Or that “mad” doesn’t also mean something extreme or exaggerated, (like your mad whack logic), just because the dictionary says”enraged; greatly provoked or irritated; angry”. Yeah, those are basic meanings of the word at face value, but guess what words have more than one meaning and when you add context, the meanings change. Just because YOU don’t get it, doesn’t mean everyone else on the east coast doesn’t commonly understand the different definitions of the word “mad”. The same logic applies with the term racism.

When we are talking about racism, today in 2017, the old blanket definition based on common understanding, just does not suffice. Yes, that is still the foundation and underlying ideology of racism, but we are well past the foundation, the house in built. You need to update your definitions of words to modern times fam. In addition, we are talking about a social problem, something that has social context. So when we apply words to social issues, or any other context outside of basic speech, meanings change. Just like how the word “gay” changes when put into social context. The dictionary says gay is “lighthearted and carefree”, are you going to tell me, it is incorrect that “gay” also refers to someone who is homosexual? Shit changes, things are not black and white. In fact many dictionary HAVE had to update entries under words like “gay” to include these new social meanings, because it is now a widely known definition and understanding of the word. Look in a 50-year old dictionary and tell me if you see this definition of gay included. There’s a reason updated version of dictionaries are released all the time. When we are talking about race and racism as a social construct, we are talking about a highly complex, multi-layered issue that cannot just be summed up with “thinking your race superior”. Which is where the argument of “reverse racism” falls flat, and the far more commonly understood definition of racism being race + powercomes from.

White supremacy has been at work for a long time. Long enough to create systems of injustice. We see it every single day, if you need still needs examples of this in 2017, google is free. White supremacist systems have been implemented that hold themselves above everyone else. So much so, that the basic mindset of white people being better than everyone else, simply doesn’t matter anymore. It’s already built into the system. Personal beliefs don’t really matter when the system is built on racial bias.

You could be the most anti-racism white person on the planet, and still make zero difference, because the system is already setup to make sure white people stay ahead and superior. This is why the anti-racism movement is rooted in restructuring the system and not just “-lets just kill all the racist white people”. Lucky you, that doesn’t solve anything if the whole system is fucked up, and POCs aren’t as hateful as white folks have been. When we are addressing this idea of race + power, we are referring to the fact that, in order to be racist you have to have the power to have a systematic effect. I can call you a expired jar of mayo, but will that stop you from getting every job before a person of color? Nope. Will that end the wage gap? Will you get kicked out of school for you natural hair? Will you now be stopped and frisked at random? Will you need “random” security checks at the airport? Will you be assaulted, knocked out, and have your limp body dragged off an United airlines flight? Will you be shot by a cop for existing? Nope, nope nope and nope. The answer is no. You will get your feelings hurt and then you will go on to live a white privileged life. It doesn’t work the other way around for the rest of us. Hence why “reverse racism” and the dictionary is a load of shit.

Even if every person of color really did HATE white people, and I mean really hate them…like want them all dead type of hate, we still wouldn’t have the power to make that happen. Obama, as president didn’t even have the power to be racist. Do you think the house and senate would have allowed black ass O’breezy to pass any bill that said “deport all white people back to Europe”? No, that would never happen because white people still have the majority power in this country. Meanwhile y’alls favorite circus peanut, passed it for brown folks, within two weeks of being in office. If the a black president of these so called, united states couldn’t do it (if he wanted to), what makes you think the random POCs in the hallway at school is going to have any impact on your life’s trajectory?

Now, POCs can be prejudice and discriminatory, towards white people and each other, however those things are not the same as racism. Prejudice and discrimination are more of an individual ideology, an opinion that isn’t based on any actual facts. By itself, it isn’t systematic. When you start applying that prejudice into a larger vessel like the american government, then it becomes racism. So those extremist that do want to kill all white people, would be considered pretty damn prejudice and discriminatory against white people. But again, even they do not possess the power to actually make that happen. Are you getting the gist here? Great.

So, to recap this long ass post, the dictionary is outdated and based on white male opinions. Words have multiple meanings and change with time and context. So you can get off your dictionary high horse. Also “reverse racism” isn’t a thing as you are not being effect outside of your own hurt feelings. You did not win your Facebook argument. You need to log off and take this L with you.

It’s 2017 folks, get with the times, update your definitions accordingly, and throw your beloved dictionary into the nearest recycling bin.

Thank you and I’m out.

 

I tried REALLY hard to read this entire thing. once I got to the third bold though, I realized I wasn't talking to someone who had any grasp of history or the world today.

bold #1: dictionaries are written by old white men, stale, fixed and incapable of containing all words and their meanings. (historically accurate until the writer goes on to bold 2)

bold #2: Dictionaries are written by programmers who use bots to find words and their contexts and put them in a fluid real time database. (yet the writer continues the rant on how things were done decades ago)

bold #3: is just where I had to stop reading. the lack of knowledge and self entitlement dripping in this tirade is vast. racism was not invented in the 1700's. "black people" hold no monopoly on racism. they are not special little snowflakes who are the only ones that have had a system hold them down. in fact, black people were one of the first documented societies to actually form a racist system that enslaved people.

 there is no way I actually believe Moto is dumb enough to fall in line with this crap. I can't believe he even posted it.

[revkev6]

14 minutes ago, JEFF said:

You truly are the black whisperer aren't you...? 

do we have a decent pic of moto anywhere. given his love of memes I'd really like to make some 

[MiSledder]

34 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

Black people have told you what they want. 

You haven't heard it because of your willful white ignorance.

[MiSledder]

22 minutes ago, revkev6 said:

do we have a decent pic of moto anywhere. given his love of memes I'd really like to make some 

 

 

Edited January 24, 2018 by MiSledder

[revkev6]

Just now, MiSledder said:

 

right click, save as

desktop\HCS\*new folder* "MOTO"\

[DriftBusta]

Why give this idiot the time of day?  Fucking guy has polluted 80% of the forum with his bullshit world view.

[motonoggin]

41 minutes ago, JEFF said:

You truly are the black whisperer aren't you...? 

No, I just don't choose to be ignorant.

[motonoggin]

Just now, DriftBusta said:

Why give this idiot the time of day?  Fucking guy has polluted 80% of the forum with his bullshit world view.

Shut up you white supremacist fuckstain.

[motonoggin]

4 minutes ago, MiSledder said:

 

 

 It's fucking creepy that you have pictures of me saved. 

 

[DriftBusta]

13 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

Shut up you white supremacist fuckstain.

You go girl. White supremacist.  I'll be sure and mention it to my black buddy and fellow advisor I'm having dinner with later.  WTF is wrong with you?

[motonoggin]

1 minute ago, DriftBusta said:

You go girl. White supremacist.  I'll be sure and mention it to my black buddy and fellow advisor I'm having dinner with later.  WTF is wrong with you?

Make sure you call him a nigger first

Fucking white garbage

[DriftBusta]

4 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

Make sure you call him a nigger first

Fucking white garbage

You really out of work?  Why so bitter and angry?  Life not dealing you a fair shake?  Maybe get off your ass, learn a skill or a trade and get the fuck off the internet 16 hrs a day you fucking loser.

[Momorider]

9 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

You go girl. White supremacist.  I'll be sure and mention it to my black buddy and fellow advisor I'm having dinner with later.  WTF is wrong with you?

 you have to ask 

[motonoggin]

5 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

You really out of work?  Why so bitter and angry?  Life not dealing you a fair shake?  Maybe get off your ass, learn a skill or a trade and get the fuck off the internet 16 hrs a day you fucking loser.

Why would I take career advice from somebody who's still working at your age?

[MiSledder]

32 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

 It's fucking creepy that you have pictures of me saved. 

 

 I was saving it for a chop, most of us who arent afraid to post pics kev has chopped

[motonoggin]

Just now, MiSledder said:

 I was saving it for a chop, most of us who arent afraid to post pics kev has chopped

Still creepy

[MiSledder]

14 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

You really out of work?  Why so bitter and angry?  Life not dealing you a fair shake?  Maybe get off your ass, learn a skill or a trade and get the fuck off the internet 16 hrs a day you fucking loser.

its just a guess but im thinking he failed his drug test at the gas company and that was the start of his anti capitalist  rampage 

Edited January 24, 2018 by MiSledder

[MiSledder]

3 minutes ago, motonoggin said:

Still creepy

Im ok with it if it annoys a racist