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Is the word "Urban" PC lingo for Ghetto?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:00 pm
Person I was talking to earlier really used "urban" to describe a neighborhood. Coincidence she was a female liberal?
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Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:01 pm to Futures Bleak
true dat
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:01 pm to Futures Bleak
I wasn't aware it was limited to ghetto
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:03 pm to Futures Bleak
It's slang for Tebow Lover.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:04 pm to Futures Bleak
As in, "young urban pharmaceutical rep?"
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:04 pm to Futures Bleak
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Person I was talking to earlier really used "urban" to describe a neighborhood. Coincidence she was a female liberal?
Seriously?
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Descriptors that have zero to do with demographics other than number of people.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:06 pm to Futures Bleak
In the sense you are describing, no, but the terms "urban" or "inner city kids" are always used to describe ghetto kids.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:07 pm to fr33manator
Lol. What if I told you this street she was describing was in New Orleans?
Definitely talking about population
Definitely talking about population
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:09 pm to Futures Bleak
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:09 pm to Futures Bleak
The word itself doesn't have racial connotations.
You should have called her out and asked if she meant a black area and to not sully decent words with euphemisms that years down the road people like her will decide are "racist" and ban everyone else from saying.
You should have called her out and asked if she meant a black area and to not sully decent words with euphemisms that years down the road people like her will decide are "racist" and ban everyone else from saying.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:15 pm to fr33manator
Better off trying to explain something like that to a brick. That's how dumb this chick sounded.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:16 pm to Futures Bleak
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Coincidence she was a female liberal?
Not at all.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:16 pm to Futures Bleak
Is **** slang for homosexual?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:17 pm to Futures Bleak
Urban has always meant the opposite of country to me. Somewhere in between is that weird Suburban thing.
If urban means ghetto today, it's probably because those who take urban to mean ghetto live in areas that evacuated their urban areas, and ghetto took over.
If urban means ghetto today, it's probably because those who take urban to mean ghetto live in areas that evacuated their urban areas, and ghetto took over.
This post was edited on 7/23/14 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:20 pm to fr33manator
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The word itself doesn't have racial connotations
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The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest community-based organization of its kind in the nation. Its current President is Marc Morial.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:20 pm to Futures Bleak
I live in the middle of an urban area and it is far from ghetto. I mean Manhattan is an urban area. Just call the ghetto the ghetto, big fricking deal.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:24 pm to lsu480
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Just call the ghetto the ghetto, big fricking deal.
There you go being insensitive again. Don't you know words hurt?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:24 pm to JumpingTheShark
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In the sense you are describing, no, but the terms "urban" or "inner city kids" are always used to describe ghetto kids.
This
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:24 pm to lsu480
quote:I saw Wynton Marsalis say that that's racist
Just call the ghetto the ghetto
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