Vote: Is Calling Someone "Fredo" In a Forum Post An Ethic Slur?

[Jack Trojan]

Cuomo — the younger brother of Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — claims that people use the name Fredo “as an Italian aspersion,” declaring, “It’s like the ‘N word’ for us.”

So you don't believe him?

Nope, that's wop, dago or guinea. If it's a slur, why did pc-obsessed CNN and MSNBC use the very same word to denigrate Don Trump Jr? And please don't tell me that it's a word that only Italians can use to refer to other Italians. We've had enough of that double standard nonsense with n****r.

You think the only ethnic slurs toward an Italian are wop, dago or guinea? You don't get out much.

CNN called Don Drumpf Jr. Fredo? Who cares? They weren't using it correctly as an ethnic slur then. You don't know the definition of an ethnic slur, do you?

Ethnic Slur - definition: "An aspersion on someone's race or language."

How does "Fredo" not qualify as an ethnic slur?

No, only leftists do that, and I'm not a leftist. It's not conservatives calling Clarence Thomas or the Surgeon General an Uncle Tom.

Conservatives aren't racist??? 

Well, no. The First Amendment does. It trumps their hurt feelings. What if I said that from now on, the only people who can use the term "redneck" or "hillbilly" are poor Southern whites? Would you be cool with that?

By that logic, then the 1st Amendment allows you to call Italians wop, dago and guinea with impunity. Fill your boots. But don't blame me if a hot-headed Italian gets in your face when you call him Fredo even after you explain to him that it is better than wop. And the terms "redneck" or "hillbilly" are slurs, but they aren't ethnic, comprende?

[Jack Trojan]

   I thank you for posting the pic, and You immediately slander me as a "knuckle dragger". Such is the Irrational state of a Hater.

You sound surprised that White Supremacists are a major part of Drumpf's base. He claims they are "very fine people" who shout Nazi slogans: "Blood and Soil" and "Jews will not replace us". Shirley you knew that Royell.

[Ray Mitcham]

The President should be some one who tries to keep the country together, but this Bozo seems determined, for his own political ends, to divide the people. He is a disgrace to the office. but then that's why his believers follow him.

[Sean Kneringer]

To be fair Ray, I saw that pic too but maybe there is more to it.

There is. It was held by Trump hater at a Bernie Sanders rally in Utah. Why do research when you can go right into hate mode?

https://reason.com/2020/04/20/dont-get-fooled-by-fake-photos-of-coronavirus-lockdown-protests/

[Sean Kneringer]

So you don't believe him?

Why? Because he says so? His is decidedly a minority opinion.

You think the only ethnic slurs toward an Italian are wop, dago or guinea? You don't get out much.

No, but they're much more offensive than Fredo.

CNN called Don Drumpf Jr. Fredo? Who cares?

People who hate hypocrisy?

They weren't using it correctly as an ethnic slur then. You don't know the definition of an ethnic slur, do you?

Like porn, I know it when I see it.

Ethnic Slur - definition: "An aspersion on someone's race or language."

How does "Fredo" not qualify as an ethnic slur?

Because it's a euphemism for "stupid."

Conservatives aren't racist??? 

Liberals aren't???

By that logic, then the 1st Amendment allows you to call Italians wop, dago and guinea with impunity.

It does. "Hate" speech is free speech. Why do you think that "God Hates Fags" protesters haven't been arrested?

Fill your boots. But don't blame me if a hot-headed Italian gets in your face when you call him Fredo even after you explain to him that it is better than wop.

True, fear of reprisal is why most people refrain from slurs.

And the terms "redneck" or "hillbilly" are slurs, but they aren't ethnic, comprende?

Right. They're just racist.

[Martin Weidmann]

You've been busted Storing. No excuses. You really are a knuckle dragger.

The jerk will never accept anything negative about Trump and his ilk, even when it is staring him in the face.

It's all the democrats faulty anyway, don't you know..... 

[Martin Weidmann]

There is. It was held by Trump hater at a Bernie Sanders rally in Utah. Why do research when you can go right into hate mode?

https://reason.com/2020/04/20/dont-get-fooled-by-fake-photos-of-coronavirus-lockdown-protests/

Indeed, why not do a bit of research instead of instantly blaming the left.

Scroll down the page at the link you have provided and you'll see a twitter posting explaining exactly what happened.

It was indeed a Bernie Sanders rally where Trump supporters showed up with their flags to counter protest.

They guy holding the Nazi flag is identified as Robert Sterkeson, who is a known white supremacist.

What was it that you were saying about a Trump hater?