[daddymac1127]

I am of Irish descent and proud of it. Imagine if we didn't have drunk Irish jokes. There would be no laughter.

I completely realize that the Black Lives Matter movement is very important.

Many things need to change but we do all need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

Hopefully we will not be losing our right to free speech.

[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by daddymac1127

I am of Irish descent and proud of it. Imagine if we didn't have drunk Irish jokes. There would be no laughter.

I completely realize that the Black Lives Matter movement is very important.

Many things need to change but we do all need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

Hopefully we will not be losing our right to free speech.

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Yes - I'm originally from Chicago - POLISH jokes galore. Italian jokes, same, I'd guess you name a 'descent' and jokes abound. Same for religion. Those comments/jokes etc are still fine, BUT...

It's sad we seem to now need an "OFFENSIVE FILTER" for everything we say, joke, link to on the Net, comment, etc etc. One main reason we DO NOT have Alexa in our home...who knows...

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by daddymac1127

I am of Irish descent and proud of it. Imagine if we didn't have drunk Irish jokes. There would be no laughter.

I completely realize that the Black Lives Matter movement is very important.

Many things need to change but we do all need to be able to laugh at ourselves.

Hopefully we will not be losing our right to free speech.

Scary times we do need to stop taking "everything" so seriously.

[Aloha1]

635,000 Civil War casualities weren't enough?? As to BLM, read their Manifesto. It is a self proclaimed Marxist organization. Many companies are doing what Lenin
proclaimed, "They will sell us the rope we will use to hang them". No money to BLM but all money to help School Choice, internships, improving neighborhoods. And while we're at it, end the ridiculous requirement that if you're on welfare, you can't have a male in the house. That alone was the major cause of breaking up families and the rise in out of wedlock births.

[Velvet]

Where is there a list of words and phrases that are considered offensive? It seems to be changing rapidly and I would like to know if I happen to use one by accident.

[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Where is there a list of words and phrases that are considered offensive? It seems to be changing rapidly and I would like to know if I happen to use one by accident.

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Offensive words for people according to nationality or ethnicity
RELATED WORDS

black NOUN
OFFENSIVE a black person. This word is sometimes considered offensive, so you should be very careful about using it.

Canuck NOUN
AMERICANINFORMAL someone who is Canadian, especially French Canadian. This word is sometimes used as an insult.

colored NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for a black person

coloured
the British spelling of colored

Coloured NOUN
SOUTH AFRICANOFFENSIVE someone who has one parent or grandparent who is white and one who is not

coolie NOUN
OFFENSIVE an insulting word used in the past for a worker with no special skills in China, India, and other parts of Asia

coon NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for a black person

cracker NOUN
AMERICAN an insulting word for a poor white person who lives in the southeastern U.S.

dago NOUN
OFFENSIVE an extremely offensive word for a person from Italy, Spain, Portugal, or South America

Eskimo NOUN
OLD-FASHIONED a member of the Inuit people. This word is now sometimes considered offensive.

frog NOUN
OFFENSIVE an insulting word for a French person

gipsy
a British spelling of gypsy

gook NOUN
AMERICANOFFENSIVE a very offensive word for someone from Asia

goy NOUN
OFFENSIVE someone who is not Jewish

gringo NOUN
an insulting word used by some people from South America for someone from another country who speaks English, especially someone from the U.S.

gypsy NOUN
OFFENSIVE a Romany

half-breed NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for a person who has parents of two different races, especially someone with one white parent and one Native American parent. A more polite expression is person of mixed race.

half-caste NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for someone who has parents of two different races. A more polite expression is person of mixed race.

haole NOUN
in Hawaiian English, a white person

honky NOUN
OFFENSIVE an insulting word for a white person

Indian NOUN
OLD-FASHIONED a Native American

Injun NOUN
OFFENSIVE an extremely offensive word for a Native American. You may see or hear this word, but do not use it.

Jerry NOUN
MAINLY BRITISHOFFENSIVEINFORMAL an insulting word for a German

jock NOUN
BRITISHOFFENSIVE an insulting word for someone from Scotland

kaffir NOUN
SOUTH AFRICANOFFENSIVE a black person

kafir NOUN
OFFENSIVE a word meaning “non-believer,” used by some Muslims to describe someone who is not a Muslim

Kraut NOUN
OFFENSIVE an insulting word for a German

makwerekwere NOUN
SOUTH AFRICANOFFENSIVE a term used in South Africa for foreigners from the rest of Africa

mammy NOUN
AMERICANOFFENSIVE an offensive word sometimes used in the past for a black woman who took care of other people’s children, mainly in the southern U.S.

mick NOUN
BRITISHOFFENSIVE an insulting word for an Irish person

mulatto NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for someone who has one black parent and one white parent

native NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for someone belonging to a group who lived in a place before Europeans arrived there

negress NOUN
OFFENSIVE an offensive word for a black woman

negro NOUN
OFFENSIVE a black person. This word is now considered offensive but until the second half of the 20th century it was an accepted word, used by black people as well as white.

****** NOUN
OFFENSIVE an extremely offensive word for a black person

nonwhite ADJECTIVE
belonging to a race of people that does not have pale skin. This word is considered offensive when it is used to separate white from nonwhite people for political or economic reasons.

oriental NOUN
OLD-FASHIONED someone from eastern Asia, especially China or Japan. This word is now considered offensive.

Paddy NOUN
OFFENSIVE an insulting word for an Irish person

pakeha NOUN
NEW ZEALAND a white person in New Zealand, especially someone whose family originally came from Europe

paleface NOUN
OFFENSIVE a white person. This word is sometimes used as an insult by Native Americans.

pickaninny NOUN
OFFENSIVE a black child. This word is sometimes used by older white people but most people consider it offensive.

Polack NOUN
AMERICAN an insulting word for someone from Poland. The usual word is Pole.

pommy NOUN
AUSTRALIANINFORMAL a slightly insulting word for someone from the U.K., especially someone from England

primitive NOUN
OLD-FASHIONED someone from a primitive society. This word is now considered offensive.

Pygmy NOUN
a member of a people who are of less than average height. Most Pygmies live in Central Africa or Southeast Asia. This word is now sometimes considered offensive.

Red Indian NOUN
OLD-FASHIONED a Native American. This word is now considered to be offensive.

redskin NOUN
OFFENSIVE a word used in the past to refer to a Native American, now regarded as very offensive

savage ADJECTIVE
OLD-FASHIONED an insulting way of describing someone or something from a culture that is not considered to be advanced. This is now considered offensive.

savage NOUN
OLD-FASHIONED an insulting word for someone from a culture that is not considered to be advanced. This is now considered offensive.

spade NOUN
OFFENSIVE a very offensive word for a black person

squaw NOUN
OFFENSIVE an old word for a Native American woman. This is now considered offensive.

Taffy NOUN
OFFENSIVE an insulting word for someone from Wales

Uncle Tom NOUN
an insulting word for a black person who the speaker thinks shows too much respect for white people. This word is used especially by other black people.

WASP NOUN
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a word for people who are white and have money, power, and opportunities that other people do not have

wetback NOUN
AMERICANOFFENSIVE an offensive word for someone from Mexico who goes to live in the U.S.

whitey NOUN
AMERICANOFFENSIVE an offensive word for a white person

wog NOUN
OFFENSIVEBRITISH an extremely offensive word for a black person

wog NOUN
OFFENSIVEAUSTRALIAN an extremely offensive word for a person from a Mediterranean country

wop NOUN
OFFENSIVE an extremely offensive word for an Italian person

Yank NOUN
IMPOLITE an insulting word for someone from the U.S.

Yankee NOUN
someone from the U.S.. This word is often used as an insulting word for referring to an American by people who are not from the U.S.

yid NOUN
OFFENSIVE an extremely offensive word for a Jewish person

English version of thesaurus of offensive words for people according to nationality or ethnicity

[Velvet]

Thank you! English is my 3rd language and I have been known to use some of these words in their literary meaning. I am surprised about Taffy. My in-laws were from Wales and called their golden retriever Taffy.

[Stu from NYC]

Since the whites in this company seem to have become irrelevant can they call us honkies?

[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Since the whites in this company seem to have become irrelevant can they call us honkies?

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I'm an 'older' white guy - German/English to the best of my knowledge.

If I was referred to as "cracker, goy, gringo, honky, Jerry, Kraut, paleface, pommy, whitey, Yank, Yankee I'd laugh out loud. really. and wait for a punch line...NOT give a punch.

THIS I DO find offensive>
"Uncle Tom NOUN
an insulting word for a black person who the speaker thinks shows too much respect for white people. This word is used especially by other black people."

WHAT???

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by DeanFL

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I'm an 'older' white guy - German/English to the best of my knowledge.

If I was referred to as "cracker, goy, gringo, honky, Jerry, Kraut, paleface, pommy, whitey, Yank, Yankee I'd laugh out loud. really. and wait for a punch line...NOT give a punch.

THIS I DO find offensive>
"Uncle Tom NOUN
an insulting word for a black person who the speaker thinks shows too much respect for white people. This word is used especially by other black people."

WHAT???

I dated a fella for awhile whose mother told him Shicksa's were for practice. I was really surprised to hear what it meant.. I never did like his mother.

[mamamia54]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

I do not remember why but think creamsicles are inherently racist.

Oh no, now no Dixie cups or creamsicles. What next. This is just becoming a joke. How can you take any of this seriously with all this nonsense going on. Removing all history, good or bad, isn’t the answer.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by LuckyS

Guess plantation and master will be next

I heard some RE sales outfit is no longer going to refer to master bedrooms and master bathrooms as such, taking "master" out of their inventory of descriptors.

[DeanFL]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I dated a fella for awhile whose mother told him Shicksa's were for practice. I was really surprised to hear what it meant.. I never did like his mother.

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so GG - during 'practice' - did you let him round 3rd to home?
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[Velvet]

It feels so nice not to have a clue as to what you might be talking about....

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Velvet

It feels so nice not to have a clue as to what you might be talking about....

I do