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Is the word 'blackmail' racist?
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:15 pm
Homonym?
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:17 pm to PatDyesPants
quote:depends on who is using it
Is the word 'blackmail' racist?
This post was edited on 9/29/16 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:17 pm to PatDyesPants
blackmail Sixteenth-century Scottish farmers paid their rent, or mail, to English absentee landlords in the form of white mail, silver money, or black mail, rent in the form of livestock or produce. The term black mail took on a bad connotation only when greedy landlords forced cashless tenants to pay much more in goods than they would have paid in silver. Later, when freebooters along the border demanded payment for free passage and "protection," the poor farmers called this illegal extortion blackmail, too.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:20 pm to PatDyesPants
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Is the word 'blackmail' racist?
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blackmail
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Yes
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:20 pm to PatDyesPants
The word "racist" doesn't even mean anything anymore because it's used out of context so much. Liberals redefine words to go with their agenda and try to call out people. Pussies, I hate em.
This post was edited on 9/29/16 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:21 pm to PatDyesPants
What about the "pot calling the kettle black" old saying, i know ive used it numerous times, then it dawned on me.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:22 pm to PatDyesPants
Blackmail only sounds racist when said by a white male.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:23 pm to PatDyesPants
Can't be any worse than "Doing things the white way" at work.
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:34 pm to PatDyesPants
I prefer ex-whoretionist
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:34 pm to PatDyesPants
As a proud AA (Anglo-American) I don't think it's racist at all
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:43 pm to PatDyesPants
Not to mention sexist.
Why couldn't it be blackfemail!
Why couldn't it be blackfemail!
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:47 pm to PatDyesPants
What about renigged? I could never say that in a casual setting
Posted on 9/29/16 at 4:08 pm to PatDyesPants
Is the White Album by the Beatles racist.
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