[ SECRET POST #2795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2795 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]


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[Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers]


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[Jeeves and Wooster]


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[Yahtzee/Zero Punctuation]


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[Markiplier]


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[Jackie Chan Adventures]


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[The Parent Trap]


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[Alexander]


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[Starsky and Hutch]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So the first things he asks is: are you varying types of european-white? Then he asks, are you part black?

But the first thing he assumes is latin and people are surprised readers aren't going "I KNEW IT, HE'S BLACK"?

@_@

[(Anonymous)]

"Spic" is racist slang for Hispanic. While there are certainly very light skinned Hispanics and Latinos who might look white, chances are that this prison guard isn't referring to them since he goes on to ask if Shadow has "n------ blood" in him. Ditto "gypsy".

I take it to mean that Shadow has dark hair and darker skin tone, but is still ambiguous in terms of race but is definitely not white.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're not American (especially if English is not your first language) you likely won't catch "spic", and "gypsy" to a European doesn't imply anything about skin colour. The line about "nigger blood" is more obvious though.

[(Anonymous)]

how is spic meant to imply european white.

[(Anonymous)]

Is spic not used for hispanic people all over the world? Sorry, maybe I'm getting my definitions wrong. What exactly does it imply?

[(Anonymous)]

where i come from (the u.s.) it is a catchall term for dark skinned hispanics, exclusively latin@s

i have never heard a white hispanic/latin@ called a spic

[(Anonymous)]

There's a term for South Americans in general that is mostly used in Spain: Sudacas.

[(Anonymous)]

A "spic" is an offensive slang term that in no way refers to someone who's "european-white". While a "gypsy" can be, plenty of people expect all three of those groups the guard lists as having dark hair and swarthy/dark complexions. That's why the guard rattles them off as possibilities.

Think about it. Your interpretation makes no sense. It'd be like walking up to someone and saying, "Hey, what are you, Swedish? Irish? Chinese?" You wouldn't be likely to do that because one of those things is not like the other. So your idea that the guard is listing off two white groups and one mixed race one is incorrect.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I'm not white or hispanic and I legit thought white-skinned "spics" and "gypsies" existed, so probably that's where I got confused.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

They do exist... but those pejoratives generally do not get applied to them simply because they "look white".