[ SECRET POST #1174 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1174 ⌋

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Comments

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

All these nazis on FS are getting really annoying. It's just wrong, okay. Why not say "call a kitten a kitten" or something? Why did it have to be something that's black?

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

because thats the expression?

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

It's not even possible for me to be a Nazi. I'm not German, you retard.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Laughing so hard I can't even breathe this is beautiful

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Careful who you're calling a retard, Hitler was from Australia, NOT Germany.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Austria*

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

That's not even possible, everybody in Australia was a convict and I don't think Hitler was until he was dead.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Hey did you know Hitler was a famous painter? I heard one of his pieces can be found in the Louvray in Paris...why would they even do that? Europeans are so weird sometimes.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? Isn't the Louvray where the Moaner Lisa is? Why would they taint it with that Aborigine's cave scrawls?

Re: 147

[trinity-destler.livejournal.com]

He was a famously *bad* painter.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, I thought his paintings were mediocre to acceptable. http://snyderstreasures.net/pages/hartworks.htm

u mad?

[(Anonymous)]

KKK, then?

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Don't know where you're from, but there are plenty of self-identified Nazis in the US.

Re: 147

[lljscrawls.livejournal.com]

Kittens can be black too, you know. They're called black cats. They have black fur and they meow.

That aside, "call a spade a spade" is the saying. It's an age-old expression. It had nothing to do with color -- at least, it probably didn't. I'm not the OP, so I wouldn't know.

In any case, the racial slur that you replied to was EXTREMELY uncalled for and offensive.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

"Call a spade a spade" is a completely unrelated phrase and has nothing to do with color, but at the same time it's pretty suspicious to use "spade" on a secret about a black person. I'm a white person living in a pretty racist place and people do backhanded racist shit like this all the time because they just love being hateful fuckfaces but don't want to be held responsible.

Re: 147

[lljscrawls.livejournal.com]

I don't see how it's suspicious, though. It's a common phrase that -- and this might be a shocker -- most black people are aware of. "Spade" is not a racial slur -- at least, not one that I'm aware of. Now, if a black person did see this and got offended, then I would expect the OP to apologize -- because even if it's unintentional, if you offend someone, then you really should apologize. But I honestly don't see what's offensive about using a common phrase.

I'm sorry you live in an area like that, and I don't think those people should get away with it. On the other hand, I don't think you should assume that EVERYONE is doing something like that when they use a cliche -- especially since not all spades are black. Some are silver, and some are coppery. ;) (Talking about garden spades, mind, not the spades are playing cards.)

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

It's a common phrase that -- and this might be a shocker -- most black people are aware of.

D: Uh. Why would that shock me?

"Spade" is not a racial slur

Maybe that's why we're not getting each other--spade definitely is a racial slur, has been for a long time. That's what I'm talking about.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spade

It would be somewhat like a person making a secret saying "I'm all fagged out on seeing this guy" on a picture of a gay celeb. Sure, "fagged out" means something completely innocent, but... yyyeah.

Re: 147

[lljscrawls.livejournal.com]

. . . Oh. D: Wow. I never knew that. I'm surprised I never knew that, because I lived in a pretty run-down part of San Antonio for five years of my life (absolutely dreadful) and heard pretty much everything.

Thanks for letting me know. Sorry if I sounded insensitive/like a jerkass before. /: But wow, and here I thought OP was just being a jerkass by ragging on her weight. Nice to know that he/she is not only a jerkass, but a racist jerkass to boot. xP

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

No no, you didn't sound like a jerkass to me--you honestly didn't know. :) I think it could be regional, I grew up in Texas too and never heard it until I moved to a different southern state.

We can both agree on the OP, though. Yikes.

Re: 147

[meredith44]

But wait. If the person above didn't know and you didn't know until you moved to a different state, why assume the OP knows. I honestly had no clue it was a racial slur until reading it in the thread, and I prefer to give the OP the benefit of the doubt that he/she didn't know either. (Now that I know, I won't use it, and I would hope the OP is the same.)

Regarding the actual secret. I haven't seen anyone glorify her weight, OP. Saying someone is pretty and/or a good actress doesn't mean that she couldn't be healthier. Do you expect them to say "Oh what a fatty!" every time she's mentioned? I certainly hope not.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I have no idea whether the OP knows or not, and I wasn't one of the people replying above. I'm just saying it's pretty suspicious, and that there's a good reason the people above might feel offended. I would love to believe that OP is completely innocent, but seeing as how F!S has racetrolling secrets all the time, and there's someone in this very thread who has no problems throwing around the n-word, eeeh. :|

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

You're an idiot. Someone throws you a link and all of the sudden the OP is racist? The expression is meant in the "if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it's a duck" way.

I did not know spade" was racist, neither did numerous people in this thread and I find it SICKENING that people are reinforcing it as a racist term...and others (you) are just letting it happen.

Re: 147

[(Anonymous)]

So it's the you're the real racists! defense? Have fun with that.

Re: 147

[lljscrawls.livejournal.com]

Just because you "didn't know" it was a racial slur doesn't mean it wasn't, though. Saying "I didn't know it so it must not be true" is just your way of defending your ignorance. It's not wrong to be ignorant, but it is wrong to treat that ignorance as though it's right.

Different words have different connotations depending on where you go. For instance, in England "fag" means cigarette and isn't used as a derogatory term toward homosexuals at all. That doesn't mean that it's not a slur in America. I'd never heard "spade" used as a slur before, but that doesn't mean that it's not a slur in other areas -- and who says that the OP didn't know that it was? If this was a non-offensive secret to begin with, I'd have more faith in the OP, but given the fact that the OP was already acting like a jerkass, I have little reason to give the OP the benefit of the doubt.