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Jazz ban 2nd fan for calling Westbrook "boy"

cowhide said:
Calling a black person a boy or heck even a white man is disrespectful. Any adult should know it.
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Good post but i disagree with the part i quoted. I have a mexican co-worker named victor. Literally everytime he greets me he says and i quote "wassup homie g?, You're my boy"
I never feel disrespected by that term of endearment.

It seems that the biggest thing that i have learned recently is that i am expected to have an inherent knowledge of what is and isn't offensive to every black person on planet earth since i am a white man. I obviously dont possess this knowledge so Im thinking the proper thing to do would just be to avoid interaction with black people as much as possible. Well other than the couple of black people that I already have an established relationship with for the past 15 years or so. Our relationships were established long ago before the age of offense we currently reside in and therefore would definitely give me the benefit of the doubt if i unintentionally said something offensive to them. Someone I dont have a relationship with already might not give me that benefit of the doubt so maybe avoidance is the best action.

What if many white people are feeling this way? Would that lead to more segregation and less interaction and therefore more racism? Is there any possible way that teaching people how to be less offended could lead to better communication and relationships? Idk, just a thought that will certainly get flamed.
 
fishonjazz said:
What if i said “atta boy burks! Great dunk bro!”
Offensive or not? I did call him boy in this scenario


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That's why this is relatively dumb. It's all about context and how you're saying it tonthat individual. What type of tone did that fan have, was he actually using the word boy in a racial sense or eas he just using the word? Very subjective indeed.
 
What about when a player makes a great play and his teammates yell out "Yeah boy!"? Should they get fined and ejected and subsequently suspended?
 
DasJazz said:
The ironic thing is that because Utah is being scrutinized for being mostly white is in fact having a racist view.
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Utah isn’t being scrutinized for being a mostly white crowd. We’re being scrutinized because we’ve had repeated incidents between players and fans. The players claim that racist epithets are being spoken to them by fans. It’s something to address regardless of the crowd’s makeup.

I know it might be hard for some of you to believe, but maybe our crowd is just louder and more racist/ignorant than others? Hell, this message board is proving this right now. People are openingly admitting that they didn’t know that calling a black person “boy” was racist. Good lord that’s naive.
 
NAOS said:
No, it's not. Comparing people to a vacuum cleaner isn't racist. If you have any other questions, please let us all know.
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Exactly.

People playing the stupid card seem to be desiring to excuse real racist language.
 
Someone might come up to me and say "do you know (insert whatever name here)?" and i might answer with "Hell ya, he's my boy!"
 
NAOS said:
No, it's not. Comparing people to a vacuum cleaner isn't racist. If you have any other questions, please let us all know.
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He didn't ask if its racist. He asked if its ok to say. More things suck than vacuum cleaners and someone could take it as a homophobic comment.
 
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