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Is "Ghetto" a racially charged word?

Re: Is "Ghetto" a racially charged word?

  • I didn't think it was until I got reprimanded at work for saying it.  For some people, EVERYTHING is about racism.
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  • I learned this a few years ago when it became a big deal at my job. I wasn't involved but I heard about it from both sides.

    My opinion, it is what you make it. I mean the original word was about Jews 100 years ago. Somehow the word has become what it is now but I don't think it is a racist word. That being said I don't use it anymore because it upsets people, which I have no interest in doing over a word.

  • I avoid using the word myself unless I'm singing along with Elvis.

     

    And why on earth would they want to go ahead with buying that house?

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  • Hrm. I think in the way she seems to be using it, it implies something negative about a segment of society that typically is black. 
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  • I know, I would be out of that deal so quickly.  I find so many people in this post chock full of stupid.  And that's not the 90s definition of stupid either.
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  • Sometimes, I miss the 90's so much it's retarded.
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  • You're all so stupid. Let's hug.
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  • The whole thing is so gay.
  • Wicked.
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  • I never thought "ghetto" was a racially charged word until I used it on the knot.

     

    Ghetto to me is based on the Jewish settlements in Poland and Germany post WW2.  Guess I was wrong

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