[ SECRET POST #2246

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⌈ Secret Post #2246 ⌋

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

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[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]


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03.
[Downton Abbey]


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04.
[Death Note]


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05.
[Star Trek TNG]


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06.
[Girls]


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07.
[Vampire Diaries]


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08.
[My Little Pony: Friendship is magic]


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[Spartacus]


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[CSI]


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[The Bretts]


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[Steam Powered Giraffe]


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13.
[Being Human]


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[The Young Ones]


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15.
[God Bless America]


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16.
[Nerdfighteria]


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[Downton Abbey]


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[Disney's hunchback of Notre dame (Frollo/Esmeralda)/Titanic (Cal/Rose)/Once Upon a Time (Rumpelstiltskin/Belle)/Labyrinth (Jareth/Sarah)/ Harry potter(Ginny/Tom)/ Game of thrones (Sansa/Petyr)/ The Mummy/The Mummy Returns (Imhotep/Evelyn)/ Phantom of The Opera (Phantom/Christine)]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And you've missed the point of the S!B. Pretty sure the fact that it's insulting is the very reason why OP used the term.


Also, what's it with you and getting so OTT offended about slang words for America/Americans? Like with the "USian" thing over the weekend, or whatever that was.

[mekkio]

Do you not get those slang words are insulting and are meant to be insulting otherwise they wouldn't be used?

Like calling an Irish person "mick" or an Italian a "wop."

[(Anonymous)]

that's nowhere near the same

[mekkio]

A derogatory name is a derogatory name.

It can't get any simpler than that.

[chardmonster]

...this really isn't anywhere near the same. US Citizen isn't your ethnicity.

[mekkio]

It has nothing to do with ethnicity. It's name calling based on someone's background.

[chardmonster]

Like calling an Irish person "mick" or an Italian a "wop."

Dude, no. This isn't the same.

You can't be racist against United States Citizens because that isn't a race or an ethnicity. You directly linked racist slurs (not really used too much anymore, though) to "USian."

This is beyond the fact that we're one of the two major super powers and nobody's really oppressing you by making fun of your country on the internet.

[(Anonymous)]

there are ethnic slurs for americans though, solely based on their country of residence/origin, as wop and mick are

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity#Americans

[chardmonster]

Okay. I have to say I've never seen "Merkin" used. They're calling Yank a slur? Really? Yank? Septic seems pretty localized considering it's Cockney, unless you're hanging out in some kind of Cockney message board.

Including "Timber Nigger" shows that whoever was putting together this list was really starting to reach. Slurs used against Native Americans would be a hell of a lot longer than four entries.

I mean we're getting to the point where we're defining "slur" so broadly that it's becoming meaningless.

[abharding]

I could see someone from the Southern part of the United States being insulted if someone called/referred to him/her as a Yank - given the history of the word and it's use. But I wouldn't go so far as to call it a slur.

[mekkio]

Superpowers has nothing to do with it. I can't call an English person a "Limey" without it being considered a slur despite the fact that the UK is major player on the world stage.

Name calling is name calling. It has the same intention no matter who says it to whom.

[diorama]

LOL

[(Anonymous)]

It really comes as no surprise that you have no fucking grasp of how this works.

[mekkio]

And it really comes as no surprise that there will always be people who think that there are exceptions to name calling.

Grow up and act like a God damn adult. Slurs are for children.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying it's a good word, I certainly don't use it. I'm saying that you obviously have very little comprehension of what the mechanic here is (or even who uses the word).

[(Anonymous)]

Italian isn't a race, though. Besides, we only became a united political entity 152 years ago.

[(Anonymous)]

It's only polite to call people what they want to be called. USian is not highly favored or known within the US and can be seen as spitting on a term Americans didn't even give themselves. It is rather unusual in this day and age for people to go about changing what people call themselves in their own language (estadosunidense has long been popular in Spanish, which makes the term even more aggravating for some).

'Murica in particular has connotations of rural, uneducated, conservative Americans so it stands to reason that the average American would prefer not to have their country called such.

[wauwy]

lol stop. No American with two braincells to rub together gives as fuck about "Murica." It's self-deprecating and fun.

My personal favorite is "Amerifats"

[mekkio]

So, you speak for everyone. Sorry, I didn't get that memo.

[chardmonster]

That's more or less a nonargument. Yay.

[(Anonymous)]

The main problem here is that the name US-Americans gave themselves (that being "Americans") has really fucked up connotations.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, how dare they hold on to a name for over two centuries. A name someone else gave them. The nerve of them.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I didn't realize there was a problem with being called the United States of America. Since they are states which are united and are in North America. I mean, I really wouldn't have a problem if Canada had been called the United Provinces and Territories of America (Even Québec), because hey, that's exactly what we are. Personally, I've always found "America" pretty self centred, but then, look who we're talking about.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, we always continue to do problematic things because we've done them for a long time. That is the reasoning we should follow, and I bow to your superb intelligence.

Or we could agree that calling the citizens of a single country on two continents by the identifier that also denotes anyone else from those continents with the firm expectation that people will know who we mean is really fucked up and stop doing it. US-American. Say it with me, it's not hard.