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Is the word 'blackmail' racist?

Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:15 pm
Posted by PatDyesPants
Loachapoka, AL
Member since Jan 2016
3403 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:15 pm
Homonym?
Posted by ForeverLSU02
Albany
Member since Jun 2007
52147 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:17 pm to
quote:

Is the word 'blackmail' racist?

depends on who is using it
This post was edited on 9/29/16 at 3:18 pm
Posted by yellowhammer2098
New Orleans, LA
Member since Mar 2013
3850 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:17 pm to
Everything is racist.
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
59603 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:17 pm to
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 by burdman
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2007
20685 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:20 pm to
quote:

Is the word 'blackmail' racist?
quote:

blackmail
quote:

black


Yes
Posted by PolyPusher86
St. George
Member since Jun 2010
3357 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:20 pm to
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 by AU66
Northport Al
Member since Sep 2006
3264 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:21 pm to
What about the "pot calling the kettle black" old saying, i know ive used it numerous times, then it dawned on me.
Posted by Knight of Old
New Hampshire
Member since Jul 2007
10967 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:22 pm to
Blackmail only sounds racist when said by a white male.
Posted by Scooba
Member since Jun 2013
19999 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:23 pm to
Can't be any worse than "Doing things the white way" at work.
Posted by Topwater Trout
Red Stick
Member since Oct 2010
67589 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:32 pm to
I prefer africanmail
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141727 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:34 pm to
I prefer ex-whoretionist
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5479 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:34 pm to
As a proud AA (Anglo-American) I don't think it's racist at all
Posted by MMauler
Member since Jun 2013
19216 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:43 pm to
Not to mention sexist.

Why couldn't it be blackfemail!
Posted by TennesseeFan25
Honolulu
Member since May 2016
8391 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:47 pm to
What about renigged? I could never say that in a casual setting
Posted by burdman
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2007
20685 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:49 pm to
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What about renigged? I could never say that in a casual setting


It's reneged.
Posted by lsufan_26
Member since Feb 2004
12559 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:50 pm to
I'm pretty sure I laughed the first time I heard someone use that word
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
141727 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:51 pm to
quote:

What about renigged? I could never say that in a casual setting
you mean you could never call someone a person who reneges
Posted by TennesseeFan25
Honolulu
Member since May 2016
8391 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 3:59 pm to
Yeah I was watching a bunch of blacks play dominos and I thought it was a racist thing and they were joking together.


Ahhh... good memories, that was my last summer at the plantation...
Posted by mikrit54
Robeline
Member since Oct 2013
8664 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 4:08 pm to
Is the White Album by the Beatles racist.

Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6--Brazos River Backwater
Member since Sep 2015
26134 posts
Posted on 9/29/16 at 7:31 pm to
RA-CIST. Same as blackball.
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