8 Racist Words You Use Every Day
 

http://www.cracked.com/article_16967...every-day.html

As with all cracked articles, its NSFA (not safe for anyone hehe) so don't open if your sensitive. snopes even gets a mention, which is happeneing more and more on cracked.com.

I don't know how 'true' they are, but at least they got number one right :)

They didn't get this right:
There aren't barbarians in Wow.

I beg to differ. While there may be no barbarian class, I can tell you from first hand experience that there are in fact barbarians in WoW. I quite enjoy eating a partially cooked turkey leg while wrapped in furs and playing an instance. :lol:

Thats how I play all my xbox games :)

I don't use any of those words "every day." In fact, I'd say I use them seldom.

I rarely use those words too. We all know that Number one is not correct, so how many others are wrong too. A few of them just don't make sense.

My Classics prof mentioned the "bar bar" one in class the other day. This has no bearing on whether it's true or not, of course.

We all do know that #1 is not correct, including the writers of the article who included it to debunk it. They even linked to snopes! I would hardly consider that an indication that their other information is unreliable.

Hmmm. I definitely don't use those words every day. I think they got their Blizzard games mixed up; Barbarians are indeed not in World of Warcraft but they are a class in Diablo 2 (and the upcoming Diablo 3).

This Jew is going to continue to say "Hip hip hooray".

Why do you hate the Jewish people so? Is it because you believe in that racist Darwinism crap?

:fish:

I don't believe #6 - I can't find anything that actually contradicts it in "reliable dictionaries" (none of mine list "hip hip hooray" explicitly), but I'd expect to find something about it if it was true... I must admit I originally read it as dating from WWII and thought that was far too late, but if it's from 1819 then perhaps it's more plausible.

All the others are correct as far as I know (well, except #1) - I checked cannibal and the others are pretty much common knowledge - so it seems they have checked them. So perhaps #6 is also true.

Note on #2 - you don't "immigrate from" somewhere. It's emigrate, fools!

I've just looked up hip hip in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles and I agree with Richard that there is nothing sinister in the phrase. According to the dictionary it is first mentioned in Johnson's dictionary of 1752 - long before the German's used it as a cry to hunt Jews.

ETA: I have just looked up Hip! Hip! Hurrah! in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and it gives more detail.

(Reference: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Millennium Edition, Cassell and Co, London, 2001, page 574)

So nothing racist here.

Go Vandals!
 

Can't vouch for the accuracy but I can state that regardless of ultimate etymology, it was vaguely embarassing attending a university where the athletic teams were known as the Vandals (University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho)... although not Germanic-looking logo... more Viking-ish...

I'm sorry, I don't buy a lot of these. Just because some of these may have been racist centuries ago, doesn't mean they are now. The meanings of words change.

The Vandals were indeed a Germanic tribe who invaded the Roman Empire and caused such damage that their name is used for its modern meaning. However, there is no longer a Vandal tribe, having inter-married with other European peoples, and so it can hardly be called racist. The rugby league team I support is called the Widnes Vikings and I don't think anyone would call us racist.

Yeah, I'm not really sure about calling Vandals and barbarians "racist terms" either. Maybe they were racist when Jesus used them, that potty mouth, but nowadays? Not so much. Goth is a racist term as well by that definition because, well, at one point there was a Gothic tribe as well and that's where the term comes from...

OTOH, who doesn't know that "gyp" is racist? That one's pretty obvious, like accusing people of "welshing" on a bet. Or saying that a team really "Canadianed" it when they commit a lot of errors and eat ham in the middle of a game. We use that last one all the time here in Washington state and I for one think that it's got to stop.

No mention of pikey?