Sally Walker Reviews the Effectiveness of Common Slurs (1199 hits)
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Submitted by Little Sally (View user info) at 2007-03-21 21:50:41 EDT
spic:
humor value(HV): low
offensiveness(OF): high
A wholly unimaginative derivative of the word "hispanic", this term originated in Panama during the U.S. takeover of the Canal Zone. Since even the term Hispanic is considered by some to be offensive these days, use of the shortened form will almost always ensure future hostility; since this word is never used good-naturedly.
beaner:
HV: pretty high
OF: decent
While still definitely powerful enough to ruffle most Latino feathers, this term is preferred over spic because of its intense comic potential. This hilarity makes it acceptable (in some situations) to use right in front of your really close Mexican friends. Always a fun one to blurt out and you can never go wrong with food-related bigotry.
camel-jockey:
HV: great, but recently overshadowed by "dune coon"
OF: excellent
The root is obvious here, and raises hilarious questions like how you would go about handicapping a camel race etc., and let's not forget to mention the level of hatred it is able to emit from our Middle-Eastern brethren. Almost as effective as "sand nigger" and five times as funny.
limy or limey:
HV: good
OF: moderate
Though you would think this archaic reference to preventing scurvy during naval voyages would be harmless; this reviewer has seen more than one bar fight break out after its use. While Canadians and Americans will always laugh off being called a "Canuck" or a "Yankee", there are a few Brits out there who don't take too kindly to this one. It's a sleeper folks so watch out; and it is NEVER to be used when referencing your British dart opponent.
cracker:
HV: weak
OF: low
The first of many disappointing choices for insulting those of Caucasian persuasion, this term is likely to provoke nothing more than a "ho-hum" from the white guy sitting across from you before he adjusts his glasses and refolds his newspaper. However, you can feel confident in the knowledge that the reason he doesn't seem put-off is because he's frightened.
honkey
HV: great
OF: none
Don't expect this one to offend, but it's always a crowd pleaser, since white people love it when they get to hear about themselves. Brings to mind funny images of "honkey-tonkin", which I imagine as a bunch of rednecks breaking bottles of Lone-Star over each other's heads, taking shots of Wild Turkey, headin' to the square-dance line, and yee-hawin' at the moon 'till mornin' in the beds of their Chevy Silverados.
porch-monkey
HV: good
OF: very high
It's hard to think of any term using the word "monkey" that would be considered only "good" in its humor value, but this slur does it with its EXTREME level of offensiveness. The people that use this term by day are lighting crosses in yards by night.
gook
HV: somewhat
OF: rather high
This American war-time reference was originally meant for Koreans and then later transferred to Vietnamese, but in the last thirty years has broadened to replace other slurs and can now pass for any Southeast Asian. It's a funny word, but also an abhorrent racial slur, which is too bad, because it looks like it could be come sort of onomatopoeia; as in,
GOOK!
"leaping lizards, nice punch to the gut, Bat-Man!"
frog
HV: lots
OF: who cares
Another hilarious nationalistic food-related slur and the humor here is almost limitless. Why? Because frogs are funny. Just look at Kermit. Could even be a term of endearment really, since frogs are also cute, but the French get all snitty about it. Then again, French people get all snitty about pretty much everything. And they also eat frog legs.
nip
HV: Quite good, since it starts the word "nipple".
OF: Pretty high
As a rarely used slur exclusively aimed at the Japanese, this takes the term "Jap" one step further by shortening the word "Nippon". Definitely one to remember and keep back there for a special occasion, like maybe going out on the town with some Japanese businessmen after an initially successful client meeting.
afro-saxon:
HV: incredible
OF: very little, unfortunately.
A mesmerizingly creative cross-slur for white boys trying to act like black rappers, but the creativity is all lost in its delivery, since the group it refers to is generally too illiterate to understand it. I guess we're just going to have to keep saying "wigger".
guero: (pronounced whet-o)
HV: none that I can see
OF: some
A very regional term that was almost an unknown until Beck made it slightly familiar; this term may be the only slur used towards a white that can actually cause humiliation.
Most effective when directed at a single geek wandering into a high school soccer team's locker-room.
kike:
HV: not much
OF: quite a lot
This is a very offensive term with a strange ancient origin. It comes from the Yiddish word "kikel", which literally means "circle", which is what illiterate immigrant Jews used to sign their names on legal documents. Or maybe it doesn't. Nobody really knows. All we know is that it's just "something we shouldn't say".
teapot:
HV: hilarious
OF: absolutely none
This is an explicably bizarre British reference to blacks from the nineteenth century. I have no idea. Ask them. Let's leave the bigotry to the experts, mmkay?
and finally,
Nigger:
HV: high, considering it is part of almost every Chris Rock and Richard Pryor punch-line ever delivered.
OF: so high it's illegal in some cities.
The grand-daddy of them all. The best. The most often used. Always illicits deep-seeded fear and resentment when used in mixed company. Now banned in the City of New York. The word "nigger" is simply classic perfection, the very definition of a racial slur, and owes its glory to world-wide popularity. Slang for "negroid" and then "negro" in English, negro simply means black in many other languages, and niger means the same in Latin. Almost every person on every continent understands and can relate to it.
So that's it? There are like, so many more!
Yeah, well, tough. "That's so Raven" is about to come on, and I don't want somebody to be like, "what the fuck? I'm not reading all that!"
User Reviews
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-11-11 22:11:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
shut up steak.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-11-11 13:02:50 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Is this directed towards the average white male?
Why weren't those freeloading canadians mentioned?
Couldn't you think of anything better to yell at the average white male?
You provided almost no context for these words to exist in. As a generality, there's a difference between rural areas and a crowded subway.
Your humor value has no concrete scale mentioned, nor does your offensiveness rating. What are we supposed to do with the ratings?
A failure is you.
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2007-11-11 11:00:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
hilarious
also
"frog
HV: lots
OF: who cares"
made me laugh out loud.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-07-25 11:41:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i approve of afro-saxon
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-04-17 06:43:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-04-17 06:23:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
pretty much rocks.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-04-17 05:24:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Teapot?? I can honestly say I have never heard of that insult. Maybe one Historian used to another.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-04-17 03:45:16 EDT (#)
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Little Sally Walker, sitting in a saucer,
Ride, Sally, ride,
Wipe your weeping eyes,
Turn to the East, turn to the West,
Turn to the one that you love best.
Aw, shake it to the east East!
Aw, shake it to the west West!
Aw, shake it to the east East!
Aw, shake it to the west West!
Turn to the one that you love best.
Submitted by littledan (user info) at 2007-03-24 08:45:13 EDT (#)
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Porch Monkey is also interchangeable with Yard Ape.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-23 12:37:37 EDT (#)
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okay what I meant was - you felt the need to quote black comedians saying 'nigger' - why? it's like you bottled it at the last second.
-2 was harsh upon reflection but at least i gave you a reason.
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fair enough. It feels that way because "nigger" is the last word; but it kind of had to be. And I didn't quote anybody, I just pointed out that those two in particular use it a lot.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-03-23 10:36:52 EDT (#)
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Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-22 12:43:16 EDT (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/99918#235447
Okay. You're going to have to explain this one to me, because I just don't get it.
Do you mean why did I mention black comedians say nigger and didn't mention other comedians say nigger? I can't think of many comedians other than blacks who use that word in their routines...
Do you mean why didn't I mention comedians of other ethnicities and nationalities who use racial slurs to describe themselves? Like Carlos Mencia saying beaner? Or Eddie Izzard saying limy?
Well, that would have gotten old pretty quick.
Anyhow, the point of the post (and maybe this wasn't clear) was that these are all words that have become taboo (at one point nigger wasn't deurogatory at all, same thing with most of these, except for the obvious ones like "camel-jockey") when the original meanings are generally benign. If you didn't like the post that's fine, but I just don't understand the comment. Oh, and deep-seated. Good catch. In my mind though, deep-seeded makes sense too, when you think about it. Have a nice day. ""
okay what I meant was - you felt the need to quote black comedians saying 'nigger' - why? it's like you bottled it at the last second.
-2 was harsh upon reflection but at least i gave you a reason.
Submitted by DirtyHarry (user info) at 2007-03-22 17:29:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Dune coon.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-03-22 17:03:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm all for Afro-Saxon.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-22 16:49:15 EDT (#)
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Little Sally, this is actually really poorly written and not edited very thoroughly. You are destroying my uber reputation. I'm changing my net-nanny password again, and this time it won't be so easy to guess.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-22 14:48:39 EDT (#)
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my score? What are we playing? Who's winning?
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-03-22 14:12:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Sorry, nip WAS there. Im not upping your score though.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-03-22 13:54:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
let's all wave buh bye to the first amendment.
Submitted by St_Jimmy (user info) at 2007-03-22 13:10:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I laughed at the post, then I went and added Boss Nigger to my Nexflix library.
Submitted by sideshow (user info) at 2007-03-22 12:23:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-03-22 08:22:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Me: "Man, it's a bit Pearl Harbor out here"
Friend: "What the fuck?"
Me: "There's a Nip in the air!"
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-03-22 12:00:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
darn - i thought this said 'the effectiveness of common sluts' and was hoping to pick up some tips...
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-03-22 08:22:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Me: "Man, it's a bit Pearl Harbor out here"
Friend: "What the fuck?"
Me: "There's a Nip in the air!"
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-03-22 07:24:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Do a part deux.
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-03-22 07:22:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Eye-tie? Paki? Abo?
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2007-03-22 06:50:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
I didnt
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-03-22 06:47:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
haha, I thought it was funny....
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2007-03-22 02:26:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
nip was there you sheep-fucker
Submitted by Commander_Phil (user info) at 2007-03-22 00:52:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Cute.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-03-22 00:25:15 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
meh. You missed out the really classic ones like "nip" and "eye-tie"
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2007-03-22 00:14:54 EDT (#)
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Afro-Saxon, eh?
I approve of this term.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:51:53 EDT (#)
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getting language corrections from a texas yahoo (not on the list) is a pretty tough pill to swallow.
Color me humiliated.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:43:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
and it's deep seated not deep seeded.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:18:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Sorry- I never really check "User info".
1000 apologies.
have a charity +1 for the trouble.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:13:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:11:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Show me your hole and we can then be Uber pals.
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There we go ladies and gents. Definative proof that Shlongy is a homosexual.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:11:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Show me your hole and we can then be Uber pals.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:05:44 EDT (#)
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I see that Larry "Bud" Melman died. I liked that guy.
I will not give up New England clam chowder. I fucking will not.
Goddamit.
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2007-03-21 23:05:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I abhor racism but still thought this was fucking funny.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:59:49 EDT (#)
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*off
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:59:28 EDT (#)
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to piss you personally.
I see it worked to perfection.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:55:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
why did you feel the need to quote black comedians to prove that 'nigger' is funny but didn't do that with the others?
if you are going to do something like this go all out you fucking cunt.
there's no such thing as semi-offensive.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:54:47 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:53:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Tonight I have learned that it's very hard to read posts and write reviews when doubled over in horrific pain brought on by an intolerance of lactose.
Something new every day.
Sometimes I just have to have some of that tasty cow pus, though.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:47:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was great. I'll have to go back and read some of your stuff later, it seems to be good, and I only discovered this after people, including me, accused you of plagiarism.
frog
HV: lots
OF: who cares
Submitted by ampersand (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:46:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
GOOK!
"leaping lizards, nice punch to the gut, Bat-Man!"
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:45:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
The movie poster saved this peckerwood from a minus two.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:36:17 EDT (#)
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DM:
stfu
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:30:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Don't tell me you've pulled any of this out of your ass, BLT!!!!!!! Please, God, no! This is Uber, for Christ's sake!!!!!!!!
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:29:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by DesolateMisanthrope (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:26:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
wow, this post is up there for the prize of shittiest.
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FUCK YEAH!
Submitted by DesolateMisanthrope (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:26:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
wow, this post is up there for the prize of shittiest.
How can YOU determine the 'humor value and offensiveness when you have never
a) been in too many real life situations where the word was used
b) never asked the offended for their take on the word
c) also, one person might shrug it off and another person might kill over it so whose opinion would supersede?
either you are referencing a 'street smart' site, or you are pulling that shit out of your ass because I know the next guy down the line doesn't really care all that much about which of those he is called but he WILL take enough care to beat the shit out of you
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:25:28 EDT (#)
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hm. inexplicably bizarre, little Sally. Somebody needs vocabulary flashcards I think.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:17:41 EDT (#)
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Seriously awesome shit....
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2007-03-21 22:12:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
awesome.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-03-21 21:58:36 EDT (#)
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My kinda post, guerita.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-03-21 21:51:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
WTF? I'm not reading all that!