Why is this wrong?

Also why is it ok for one black person to call another nigger yet if a white person used this terminology there would be all sorts of problems?

It's okay for minorites to insult everyone else, but not the other way around. They call it "equality".

Historically the terms, "Negro" and "Nigger" have been used to sub-class black people by their white counterparts. Thus if a white person uses the term, it is perceived as a racist comment.

It's okay for minorites to insult everyone else, but not the other way around. They call it "equality".

like in that film with Jackie Chang, can't remember the name of it, but he goes into a bar and says "whats up my nigger" and ends up in a massive fight, but the guy before him was black, can't remember his name, funny guy, and he says it and its ok.

How exactly do minorities insult others? Thats a stupid, flawed assumption.

This should be moved to the Debate forum before it explodes out of hand...

(eg. that man with the hook, I forget his name) can preach hatred or even condone killing of others, but if a christian minister did it there'd be uproar... and so on.

Riiiiight. That "man with the hook" (Abu Hamza, btw). He wasn't exactly seen as being accpetable. He was potrayed in a not very nice light by most of the media, and oh yeah, he was stripped of his British citizenship!

To be honest i couldn't care less if someone called me an English Bastard, or a gringo, etc etc, so maybe thats why its exceptable, most white brit's couldn't give two hoots what people call them.

Yes, eventually. I can guarantee you that if I stood in the middle of the street in the nearest city and started yelling about killing Muslims I would be arrested and/or stabbed within the hour.

If you say so.

So you're saying if you saw someone standing in the street yelling about killing muslims you'd think nothing of it? YEAH RIGHT!

I didn't say that, and I can't really see how you thought I did

Of course I'd think something of it, that's hardly the same as you being "arrested and/or stabbed within the hour"

"If you say so" suggests you thought nothing of it, to the extent of not even caring to come up with a proper direct response, as does your ridiculous overuse of that little blue face.

Be realistic. If you stood in the middle of a busy street proclaiming your hatred of Muslims and encouraging people to kill them, or if a Christian church did the same, there would be uproar. Nobody would have done anything about Abu Hamza had he it not been for his suspected links to terrorism, and given his endorsement of Sept 11 and encouragement to kill "enemies of Islam" these are unsurprising.

Don't tell me what I mean! If you says so suggests that I disgree with what you're saying, I thought that'd be obvious.

I'd love to argue, but frankly I'm too busy stressing about results. Maybe another time.

What do you mean "how"? They insult others the same way as anyone else, but for some reason it is seen as more acceptable in that direction. For example, referring back to the comment that started this thread - "You should think twice before you open your stupid white mouth". This is clearly using "white" as a derogatory term, but appears to be seen as quite acceptable, while had it been said about blacks/asians there'd be a barrage of complaints. "Stupid, flawed assumption" my foot!

We live in a "wimp culture" - who ever is seen as the smaller or weaker group by the PC brigade can say whatever they want about the rest of us, yet complain/sue if we do the same. Hence women can insult men, but if men do the same it's "sex discrimination/harassment", blacks can insult whites, but if whites do it it's racism, religious extremists (eg. that man with the hook, I forget his name) can preach hatred or even condone killing of others, but if a christian minister did it there'd be uproar... and so on. It really is VERY childish.