Is r-word a racial slur for arabs like n-word is for blacks?

[enhanced_deficit]

If yes, pretty incredible that racial slurs are making their way into US freedom training manuals.
FF to 7:30 mark in this Democracy Now newscast:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xnfpKPmcq3I#t=451


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xnfpKPmcq3I#t=45 1

[Cleaner44]

What the hell is the r word?

[Suzanimal]

What the hell is the r word?

:confused:

Edit:

Watched the video, I get it now.

[enhanced_deficit]

What the hell is the r word?

I would prefer to be PC and refer you to news link that prints the actual word, it's in 5th para:


White House: racial slurs in NSA intelligence material 'unacceptable'
FBI and NSA to review policy after leaked documents suggest training materials referred to targets using offensive language

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/09/white-house-nsa-racial-slurs-training-material


Ok, here is a hint:

From 'Gook' to 'Raghead' - Thoughts on Iraq (http://pamolson.org/Week40.htm)
From 'Gook' to 'Raghead' - Thoughts on Iraq. Pamela Olson 4 July 2005. One of the most dangerous things about the Iraq War is that for us back home in ...

'Gook' to 'Raghead' - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/opinion/02herbert.html) May 2, 2005 - A soldier talks about his time in Iraq and the amount of gratuitous ... and the unrelieved tension of life in a war zone, contributes to levels of fear ...

[Dr.3D]

Cracka

I guess anything can be regarded as something to be offended about if one is looking for reasons to be offended. It's all in the mind of the one being offended.

[phill4paul]

Cracka

I guess anything can be regarded as something to be offended about if one is looking for reasons to be offended. It's all in the mind of the one being offended.

Hell, when I was called "cracka" I used to think that it was because I was white as a saltine cracker. Lol.

[oyarde]

Not sure if it is really the same . One refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed.

[Anti Federalist]

R word?

DaFuq is the "r" word?

Rutabaga?

Rimless?

Rotund?

ETA - Oh...raghead...ffs..."R" word...Fooking PC nonsense.

[tod evans]

Who cares?

[enhanced_deficit]

Not sure if it is really the same . One refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed.

It can't be too kosher going by GOP reaction after a SC Senator used this term about disgraced SWC few years ago:

SC Senator Calls Haley, President 'Ragheads'

GOP demands apology from Jake Knotts

Jun 4, 2010
(Newser) – South Carolina GOP state senator Jake Knotts is under fire from his own party after using a racial slur to describe Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley and President Obama. "We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion," Knotts said during an online political talk show, people present at the broadcast tell the State. Haley, currently the front-runner, is a Christian convert of Indian descent.
The chairwoman of South Carolina's Republican Party urged Knotts to apologize, and Haley's campaign condemned the remarks.

http://www.newser.com/story/91192/sc-senator-calls-haley-president-ragheads.html

[James Madison]

R word?

DaFuq is the "r" word?

Rutabaga?

Rimless?

Rotund?

ETA - Oh...raghead...ffs..."R" word...Fooking PC nonsense.

I thought the r-word was 'retard'. Damn, language is so complicated these days.

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

raghead raghead raghead raghead raghead raghead raghead raghead

[amy31416]

I'll worry about someone calling Arabs "ragheads" after our government stops killing them.

[robert68]

It's been that or an anti-muslim slur for quite a while.

[Suzanimal]

I thought it was towelhead, I've never heard the term raghead before.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

I just use the more elegant term towelhead.


Edit: Heh, Suzanimal beat me to it. Camel Jockey was another one.

[robert68]

I thought it was towelhead, I've never heard the term raghead before.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=raghead

[CPUd]

This is a pretty easy crowd...

[Dr.3D]

I thought it was towelhead, I've never heard the term raghead before.

Isn't that how they came to have the Towelie Ban?

[amy31416]

I thought it was towelhead, I've never heard the term raghead before.

Having a dad who was absolutely not politically correct, I've heard both, and a whole lot more.

[Suzanimal]

Isn't that how they came to have the Towelie Ban?

LOL, of course.:)

[Carlybee]

Yes it's a slur. No I wouldn't use it anymore than I would call anyone else a slur. I could care less what anyone else does, that's just my personal preference. That being said, I have been called a blanket ass...didn't phase me. Sticks n stones.

[Vanguard101]

What is the r word? I'm not watching this video. R word probably isn't even a slur.



Terrorist=n word

[Bryan]

What is the r word?

As said above, "refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed."

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All, please note, I would say that actively applying such a term promotes a negative collectivist mindset that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals, which is against the site guidelines.

Posts should not promote negativity in collectivist mindsets that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals. Such forms of collectivism include sexism, racism, antisemitism; they will not be tolerated here.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/content.php?1989

[Anti Federalist]

As said above, "refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed."

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All, please note, I would say that actively applying such a term promotes a negative collectivist mindset that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals, which is against the site guidelines.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/content.php?1989

Uh oh...

http://i.imgur.com/2AEuKtt.jpg

[amy31416]

As said above, "refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed."

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All, please note, I would say that actively applying such a term promotes a negative collectivist mindset that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals, which is against the site guidelines.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/content.php?1989

Aside from when I see it on fat Saudi royalty, I actually think the headwear is rather attractive, the ME version of the cowboy hat. Is that collectivist? Perhaps so, can't help it, I'm human.

[UWDude]

In the United States, ****** is the supreme word of hatred, and nothing else comes close to the hatred behind it, be it black on black or white on black.

[Bryan]

Aside from when I see it on fat Saudi royalty, I actually think the headwear is rather attractive, the ME version of the cowboy hat. Is that collectivist? Perhaps so, can't help it, I'm human.
I don't see how liking a style of headwear is collectivist, and it certainly isn't negative.

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

It's really humorous how a liberal will elevate his importance by droning on about specific words. The training manuals have specific and well-thought intent. Calling your opposition Mohammed Raghead in that video's manual is part of the most calculated mechanism to fully demonize and dehumanize another. Some pansy inventing a term like * word, and equating his sensitivities with such a mechanism is the disgusting epitome of self-importance.

[amy31416]

I don't see how liking a style of headwear is collectivist, and it certainly isn't negative.

Well, there is positive collectivism (I like Scottish men, they throw logs and can pull off wearing skirts), and there's negative collectivism (all people in trailer parks are uneducated boobs.)

All people make collectivist judgments, because we've evolved and thrived (to a certain extent) by doing so. Just because there are exceptions to the stereotype about people living in a trailer park or ghetto, doesn't mean that I'll be dumb enough to walk through one at night. It's simply a phrase, a word, about something that people wear on their head, used (of course) to try to belittle them. Intelligent people, like many of us here, understand that and can see it for what it is.

We can try to stop it by limiting speech, or we can stop it through education.

(I'll try to keep this in mind next time I read another "women shouldn't vote and are to blame for everything bad" thread.)

[DamianTV]

I cant judge people on things they have absolutely no control over. Poking fun is one thing, because usually when one person pokes fun, they expect to be poked back. There is a big difference between poking fun and finding someone guilty of being born of a certain ethnicity, demographic, race, sex, or any other way a person can be identified as being different than another. Race is not a crime, but the actions any person can make can be either criminal or upstanding.

[Vanguard101]

As said above, "refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed."

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All, please note, I would say that actively applying such a term promotes a negative collectivist mindset that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals, which is against the site guidelines.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/content.php?1989

??? Did I do something wrong???

[PierzStyx]

In the United States, ****** is the supreme word of hatred, and nothing else comes close to the hatred behind it, be it black on black or white on black.

Which is why I grew up hearing Middle Easterners being called "sand ******s."

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

"It's okay to kill middle-easterners, just don't call them the R word, that's just plain insensitive"

[JK/SEA]

As said above, "refers to a hat/scarf worn in the hot and windy deserts where protection is needed."

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All, please note, I would say that actively applying such a term promotes a negative collectivist mindset that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals, which is against the site guidelines.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/content.php?1989

does this include calling people with REDHAIR...(like myself).... 'ginger'...'carrot top' on and on....and referring to reheads having a bad temper?...i hope so, because the next person that.........


nevermind....


i'll get over it........someday....,,,just not today.......

[Working Poor]

call me cracker or cookie either one.