CavemanUggah t1_jbfcbcr wrote on March 8, 2023 at 5:22 PM

Reply to comment by zerobot in Restaurant's former employees lay claims - Gettysburg by mtnlife991

My point is that the word doesn't matter. It could be anything. If it's offensive to someone then you can either be a normal member of society and stop offending people or you can demand that society conform to your own particular standards. We have a name for people like that and it's not a nice one.

A good example is the Washington Redskins. That name wasn't offensive to most of the fans of the team or of football, in general. But it was offensive to some people. Dan Snyder didn't care at all about those people, so he didn't change the name until he was publicly shamed for it.

You certainly have the right to continue to knowingly offend people, but understand that most people do not like people who go around carelessly throwing around offensive terms. I certainly do not and will avoid them like the plague.

zerobot t1_jbfe9jw wrote on March 8, 2023 at 5:34 PM

The irony of this post is incredible.

SeptasLate t1_jbgafbv wrote on March 8, 2023 at 8:56 PM

The Washington football team used a racial slur. Is caucasian a racial slur?

CavemanUggah t1_jbgiqyw wrote on March 8, 2023 at 9:49 PM

Again. It does not matter. The word itself is not the point. The point is that some people are offended by it and intentionally ignoring that is a-hole behavior.

SeptasLate t1_jbgq4o1 wrote on March 8, 2023 at 10:37 PM

Yeah but people were offended that a bar I worked at did a fundraiser for a lgbtq center. I am glad we were assholes and didnt worry about offending those people.

On the other hand one might even say it's offensive to compare a cocktail named caucasian to a nfl team named a racial slur.

It's obvious why things like a slur are offensive. It's not obvious and borderline silly that people found "caucasian" offensive without context.