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After moving to a new town and making new friends, some of whom are disabled, I was shocked that they refer to themselves as "Crips".
As a fellow disabled person myself, it took a while to get in to their thinking, but essentially, they are claiming it back for their own. (If anyone has seen Clerks II, remember the porch monkey routine ?)
A lot of it has come from the more militant members of the community, who are fed up with ever-constantly changing labels whilst people try and pussy-foot around us and not offend us. So basically, we're saying (or at least our group is saying), chill out, we're crips, we're happy with the term, use it. TBH, to see the look of confusion on normal folks faces is worth it sometimes.
There's PC labels, then I guess there's the offensive ones such as the one I splodged out.
Crips it is from now on though.
Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
+5 Xeno Cool Points
There's PC labels, then I guess there's the offensive ones such as the one I splodged out.
Crips it is from now on though.
Cheers MP !
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
From the torygraph's live coverage of the Japan disaster;
FFS. (sorry, can't think of anything more to say about that)
Why bother saying anything until the facts of the matter are known?
As for BGG's comment, "Crip"? Nah mate, why bother with a label anyway, that applies descrimination. Just like non-whites referring to each other as "*******", unnecessary and in my book unacceptable.
The "*******" represents a colloquial term for Negroes, bloody spell check.
Why bother saying anything until the facts of the matter are known?
As for BGG's comment, "Crip"? Nah mate, why bother with a label anyway, that applies descrimination. Just like non-whites referring to each other as "*******", unnecessary and in my book unacceptable.
Thats nothing, I went to school in Liverpool with a guy who had learning difficulties, a white mum and a black dad, and he started robbing with a machete when he was about twelve.
So we might have called him A n***** crip mofo,bin-dipping calm-down, calm down gangsta,
but we called him Pongo instead
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Thats nothing, I went to school in Liverpool with a guy who had learning difficulties, a white mum and a black dad, and he started robbing with a machete when he was about twelve.
So we might have called him A n***** crip mofo,bin-dipping calm-down, calm down gangsta,
but we called him Pongo instead
Bazza gets caught
Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
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