[Daydream]

Originally posted by KeirGrey

How is nick cannon racist though his wife is white , you guys

She's not White.

She's Black. Biracial technically. But she identifies more as Black than she does White.

But I agree with you saying that this isn't racist.

[GreasyBruce]

Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla

No it doesn't, for the millionth time. English is a fluid language.

I can call 50 pounds "heavy," and I can call 50 tons "heavy." That doesn't make them the same weight and that doesn't make them equal. Almost every single word in the English language has multiple usages. Stop trying to make "racism" the one word that doesn't. It's never going to happen.

"Heavy" is an adjective that is commonly understood to refer to something that weighs a lot. It's never intended to represent a single, fixed value.

"Racism" is a noun that does have a fixed meaning, it's meant to represent one concept, which is that of institutional, systematic oppression based on race. Racism, like homophobia, or sexism, is the result of prejudice and power targeted at a specific group of people. THAT is what it means, nothing else. There is no fluidity to that concept, just like there is no fluidity to thousands of other words that have very specific meanings (where did you get this ridiculous idea that EVERY word has different meanings?). Does "homophobia" have an alternate meaning?

[bastille]

Stop acting like everything is racist, you need to stop being so sensitive

[kyleaustin]

Originally posted by JimmyMinaj

Reverse racism at its finest.

Stop talking

[ReginaPhalange]

Is the really him?


Anyway, the fury if this was a white person doing blackface. The double standards

[Kali.]

He is a piece of trash

Originally posted by Daydream

She's not white.

Why don't people get that Mariah is black?

She is mixed.

[Funhouse]

Originally posted by Artemisia

Mess at the girls here immediately defining this as racist but in threads about black face there are a bunch of people like "I don't see how this is racist "

Tbh

[cuitrex]

That make up is horribly done though

Mariah shouldVE taught him better

[BadMouthBetsy]

Originally posted by iHypeMusic

But can we talk about the fact his album is coming before Mariah's

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I canNOT and will NOT

[GreasyBruce]

If all words are totally fluid then what is the alternate meaning of "homophobic"? Is there one where straight people are included too?

[rawwritsmikey]

He looks like the twins from Harry Potter.

[Drais.]

Originally posted by satellites.™

Here come the white people acting like it was them enslaved for 400 years.

And there's no such thing as whiteface.

[Latch]

Originally posted by Gui Blackout

Now where are the social justice warriors?

This is just as offensive as blackface.

Is it?

[Flame]

Slay, Nick. I didn't even think that was him. Everyone is going crazy.

[Gui Blackout]

Originally posted by JimmyMinaj

Reverse racism at its finest.

!!!!!!!!

And black people try to act like that doesn't exist and they are the only ones who suffer prejudice.

[kyleaustin]

Originally posted by Latch

Is it?

Are you serious latch? Wow if it was a white person with a black face youd be going all crazy like the world is after you.

[Jameson Teqkilla]

Originally posted by GreasyBruce

"Heavy" is an adjective that is commonly understood to refer to something that weighs a lot. It's never intended to represent a single, fixed value.

"Racism" is a noun that does have a fixed meaning, it's meant to represent one concept, which is that of institutional, systematic oppression based on race. Racism, like homophobia, or sexism, is the result of prejudice and power targeted at a specific group of people. THAT is what it means, nothing else. There is no fluidity to that concept, just like there is no fluidity to thousands of other words that have very specific meanings (where did you get this ridiculous idea that EVERY word has different meanings?).

You're speaking from the privileged position of having higher education in social justice. You don't get to discredit every other definition of racism that has existed because of that.

It may make you feel more elite and cultured, but you can't decide your one academic discipline gets to redefine the word for the entirety of existence. That is not how the English language works. And it's not a ridiculous idea, almost every English word can be or has been used in multiple ways, or is used in different ways in different academic fields.

[QueenBLadyG]

The white in me is offended.

[Marvin]

Originally posted by GreasyBruce

"Heavy" is an adjective that is commonly understood to refer to something that weighs a lot. It's never intended to represent a single, fixed value.

"Racism" is a noun that does have a fixed meaning, it's meant to represent one concept, which is that of institutional, systematic oppression based on race. Racism, like homophobia, or sexism, is the result of prejudice and power targeted at a specific group of people. THAT is what it means, nothing else. There is no fluidity to that concept, just like there is no fluidity to thousands of other words that have very specific meanings (where did you get this ridiculous idea that EVERY word has different meanings?). Does "homophobia" have an alternate meaning?

[kyleaustin]

Originally posted by Gui Blackout

!!!!!!!!

And black people try to act like that doesn't exist and they are the only ones who suffer prejudice.

You can tell by the social justice warriors on here that dont mind this