Reminds me of The Office joke where Michael asks Oscar what his ethnicity is and Oscar says "Mexican" and Michael says "There's gotta be a better word to use than that".

I think the crack about Spanish is because the Spanish word for "black" is "negro." But it is also not pronounced the same way as racist southerners say it. Spanish uses a short E, where as rednecks insist on saying it "neeegro," perhaps in the hopes that it'll make them taller. So don't do that.

The peanut gallery will win no points for guessing that the origin of the n-word is a mutation and/or corruption of "negro" and its various permutations in the other Romance languages that white people were all dragging with them across the Atlantic, all of which are just the words for the color black. For instance, in Latin it's the even closer "niger," single G.

So decades ago I worked at a bike shop and some college students came in. One of them was black, everyone else in the shop was white. She sat down on a bike, that was all black with dark grey lettering. And I said “this bike looks great, I love the black on black look.” Everyone looked at me funny, she immediately got off the bike, and i literally died inside and froze up.

20 years later and i still think about this.

Also I should note that it was not the first time I used that phrase for that bike - when you work sales you end up with little automatic narratives that you barely think about.

The implication I got from the comic imo is that the person is going to ridiculous lengths to appear anti-racist

Calling a black object "black" = Does not offend.

Calling your car's late ignition timing "retarded" = Does not offend.

Calling your dog a "bitch" = Does not offend.

Calling your rooster a "cock" = does not offend.

Calling a tied bundle of sticks for burning a "removed" = Does not offend.

Just follow your friendly dictionary and you'll be fine.

Also: Hi mods. You're probably here because of your word filter.

Edit: Something replaced "f-a-g-g-o-t" with "removed" automatically. I'm going to leave it because it's hilarious that bundled sticks are forbidden.

Saying anyone is black is never racist.

Now I'm thinking of the politician who was offended by black holes.

I agree, but also black for coffee isn't just describing the color. It's describing the character. Sugar doesn't change the color, but that isn't black coffee. Black for coffee is a label/category, not a description.

It's still stupid to be scared to call it black, just as it's stupid to be scared of calling black people black. It's a common term that everyone understands, and it isn't an insult.

Yeah lots of repressed racism with whoever does these shitty strips.

Frapachino. On the rocks.

Yeah but Tuvok is trained to stuff his emotions deep inside where they can fester and explode depending on the needs of the episode.

Best I can do is a Han job

Depends on where from cause I've only heard "café negro"

I've always heard americano, but I don't drink coffee

Nah, most places it's called "café negro", and it's fine. "Negro" refers to the color, and there's nothing intrinsically racist about that word.

If tomorrow some nazi fash starts using the word "goal" as some slur, would it be then incorrect to say "I have goals" or "omg, we're goals" ("we're goals" as "we're matching")? If we concede them every word they co-opt, then they'll colonialize all language. Just as with the word queer, we should be the ones reclaiming it for ourselves.

Are you saying it's non-binary? Are you trying to turn me gay?

As with most stolen jokes, the oryginał is funnier.

Honestly one of my favorite throw-away lines in a movie ever

Ew no, if I order a black coffee, I'd want my coffee blacker than most black people. Most black people are still brown if we have to talk about literal skin color.

Wait the title is comparing the n-word for the word used for the color black in spanish?? As a native Spanish speaker, it litterally never crossed my mind they were even similar what.

I get how there could be some resemblance but come on.

that site is fucking cancer on mobile.

edit: because I had to figure out the image naming system and look at the raw.

I play a card game called Spitzer, where one of the rules is that the holders of the two black queens end up on a team. It is incredibly common to say things like "you beat the blacks", etc. Context is everything.

An African-Americano please