Raven Symone's self-hating ignorance strikes again, as shown in this Yahoo News article
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Bilwick1 — 10 years ago(October 12, 2015 01:54 PM)
People can't help the stupid names their stupid parents give them (honest to God I once encountered a "Latrina," and you have to wonder, "Was her mother just not thinking?"), but it's been my experience that whenever I'm dealing with a customer service rep or a lower-echelon bureaucrat or government employee, and her name is "Shaniqua" or "Latisha" or something similar, I almost always will wind up pulling my hair out at the end of the conversation after facing monumental, mind-boggling incompetence, ignorance and/or "attitude." In fact, I've dubbed it "The Shaniqua Syndrome."
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Tatmanlulu_BACK — 10 years ago(October 13, 2015 01:36 PM)
People can't help the stupid names their stupid parents give them (honest to God I once encountered a "Latrina," and you have to wonder, "Was her mother just not thinking?"), but it's been my experience that whenever I'm dealing with a customer service rep or a lower-echelon bureaucrat or government employee, and her name is "Shaniqua" or "Latisha" or something similar, I almost always will wind up pulling my hair out at the end of the conversation after facing monumental, mind-boggling incompetence, ignorance and/or "attitude." In fact, I've dubbed it "The Shaniqua Syndrome."
The amount of bigotry in this comment is painful. -
Tatmanlulu_BACK — 10 years ago(October 14, 2015 08:18 PM)
Care to pinpoint some of them, Aristotle?
I'm so glad you asked that. Don't mind if I do.
Bigotry Pinpointed:
(honest to God I once encountered a "Latrina," and you have to wonder, "Was her mother just not thinking?"),
Bigotry Pinpointed:
but it's been my experience that whenever I'm dealing with a customer service rep or a lower-echelon bureaucrat or government employee, and her name is "Shaniqua" or "Latisha" or something similar, I almost always will wind up pulling my hair out at the end of the conversation after facing monumental, mind-boggling incompetence, ignorance and/or "attitude."
Bigotry pinpointed:
In fact, I've dubbed it "The Shaniqua Syndrome." -
Tatmanlulu_BACK — 10 years ago(October 16, 2015 12:09 PM)
Here's your evidence. The dictionary (as shown here
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/bigoted
) reads
"Bigotry" is when someone believes his beliefs, culture, or background is superior to others. It goes on to say "Usually when we call someone bigoted, he is hostile to people who are different than him either by race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation."
So when you select a bunch of names from Black American culture, describe them as stupid, ridicule them with words like the "Shaniqua Syndrome" and how you find yourself pulling your hair out with people with such names, you are acting in a bigoted fashion, poking fun at black American culture.
Hopefully this helps. If it doesn't and you still have trouble grasping what I'm saying, I would enter some sensitivity training classes and college communication courses to help you. By the way, I already earned my Bachelors degree in Communications. -
Bilwick1 — 10 years ago(October 18, 2015 03:53 PM)
Your dictionary is different from my dictionary. Next time you're at the Mensa meeting try Webster's. My says nothing about belief in the superiority of one's culture, and I suspect this is a new, PC definition written by/for the PC crowd and the "Dumbest Generation." Heretofore it referred to prejudice, a term which means a pre-judgment: i.e., judging without first gathering evidence. I was making less of a "prejudice" than a "post-judice" based on much experience, experience I was describing in my post. Your mileage may vary. Perhaps you live in a city where all the Shaniquas, Latrinas and Latishas you encounter dealing with customer service departments and the lower echelons of bureaucraciesparticularly, but not limited to government bureaucraciesare all intelligent, well-educated, articulate, speak standard English and are easily able to follow a logical argument. In that case MY mileage variesradically.
You may live in a city in which the stupid, attitude-heavy, wouldn't-recognize-a-syllogism-if one-bit-them-in-their-fat-butts help have names like these:
The city I live in may have had a stupid workforce with those names, pre White Flight. Now instead they have ghetto names. -
Tatmanlulu_BACK — 10 years ago(October 19, 2015 02:46 AM)
OF COURSE BIGOTRY IS PREJUDICE, FOOL. THEY'RE THE SAAAAAAAAAME THING FOR GOD'S SAKES! Wait a minute! Omg! You're kidding, right?! LMFAO! Do you honestly not know the term prejudice can also refer to hatred and hostility towards a group based on its race, religion, creed, ethnicity, etc? The word has more than one definition, genius. It also refers to hatred or hostility based on someone's race, ethnicity, makeup, sexuality, etc. With how much we use the term prejudice here in America in reference to intolerance to people with differences, I'm very shocked you're unaware that this is a 2nd definition of the word. Is English not your first language?
Yes, bigotry is prejudice. It's prejudice not in the sense of prejudgment per se but the other usage of the word which is intolerance of different cultures, creeds, religions, etc. And by the way, your precious "non-politically-correct"
Webster's dictionary
says the same thing I'm telling you (as shown here
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prejudice
), that prejudice refers to
"an unfair feeling of dislike for a person or group because of race, sex, religion, etc."
Scroll down a little further in that link and again
Webster's Dictionary
goes on to say
"an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics"
like you insulting names common to black America as stupid, can't help it and the "Shanique Syndrome," dumbass.
Just in case you get petulant, change up your arguments and decide to say you don't like Webster anymore and he's too politically correct, here's another definition for you from an entirely different dictionary: the American Heritage Dictionary, as shown here
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=prejudice
, reads the same as follows
for definition two
:
Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular social group, such as a race or the adherents of a religion.
Really kid, get an education. Your comments were prejudice and bigoted. Accept that and accept you need a basic English class and move on. -
Bilwick1 — 10 years ago(October 19, 2015 01:59 PM)
"Really kid, get an education." Th5b4anks for the "kid;" I haven't been "kid" in a long time. But I got an education, and back when it actually mean something. (You actually had to read books!) I'm guessing you're a Black Studies major?
" . . . an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics." The key word: irrational.
Personally I'm too much of a logician and an individualist to be a racist, racism being a form of collectivism. You have to take people individual by individual. Obama is half white, and he's always going to be a idiot compared to, say, an all-Black Thomas Sowell.
Again (go back and read my original post: slowly this time, even moving your lips)* I am only describing my experience with Shaniquas. I'm sure, somewhere, at some time, some place, there are actually bright, intelligent, well-educated and articulate people with ghetto names. I just haven't met them. And if I do, they probably won't be customer service reps, lower-echelon IRS and Social Security Administration employees, 911 operators, etc.
By the way, if you enjoyed the clip from Seth MacFarlane's TED that I posted, apparently MacFarlane and/or his writers have encountered the Shaniqua Syndrome, too:
*Go on, no one's watching. -
herrerafan — 10 years ago(October 22, 2015 08:28 PM)
by Bilwick1 3 days ago (Mon Oct 19 2015 13:59:01)
IMDb member since May 2005
"Really kid, get an education." Thanks for the "kid;" I haven't been "kid" in a long time. But I got an education, and back when it actually mean something. (You actually had to read books!) I'm guessing you're a Black Studies major?
" . . . an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics." The key word: irrational.
Personally I'm too much of a logician and an individualist to be a racist, racism being a form of collectivism. You have to take people individual by individual. Obama is half white, and he's always going to be a idiot compared to, say, an all-Black Thomas Sowell.
Again (go back and read my ori2000ginal post: slowly this time, even moving your lips)* I am only describing my experience with Shaniquas. I'm sure, somewhere, at some time, some place, there are actually bright, intelligent, well-educated and articulate people with ghetto names. I just haven't met them. And if I do, they probably won't be customer service reps, lower-echelon IRS and Social Security Administration employees, 911 operators, etc.
By the way, if you enjoyed the clip from Seth MacFarlane's TED that I posted, apparently MacFarlane and/or his writers have encountered the Shaniqua Syndrome, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCoiZS0HLA
*Go on, no one's watching.
Spot on -
bigbagwolf — 10 years ago(February 17, 2016 12:16 AM)
Maybe she should avoid Italy, Portugal and any Spanish speaking countries.
Same way Steve should avoid Africa because Steve in African means pile of smelly poop.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people post, I just watch their avatars. -
bigbagwolf — 10 years ago(February 17, 2016 12:25 AM)
Raven-Symon has a pretty black name.
What's with the y and that e? Is it spelled like that so with an i and a little D that hangs off the c and f the l out of the a?
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people post, I just watch their avatars.