had racist connotations linked to its use during the Second World War.
Ok, so this a case of some tiresome know-nothing-know-it-all digging up some old bit of meangless trivia. You know, I think I might have seen/heard 'spook' used to refer to a black person literally three times in my entire life, and I'm pretty sure one of them was an A. Wyatt Mann cartoon.
Why is this old piece of niche, dead American slang from the 1940's a concern for a theatre in fucking SCOTLAND in 2021? Who the fuck uses it in this manner, and who the fuck uses it with a fucking Y on the end?
The only spook I see here is the spy - the quisling commie bastard behind this subversion.
I'm going to have to start calling my least favorite inanimate objects 'nigger'.
There's a poorly installed cycle gate at my local park that infuriates anyone who tries to get through it on a bike - its two halves have been set into the ground just a few inches too close together for you to get the handlebars of a bike through unlike every other such gate around the park.
Maybe if I write 'The nigger gate' on it in permananent marker pen, other infuriated cyclists will also come to know it as 'the nigger gate', regardless of whether the ink is scrubbed off. Every cyclist will know precisely why it's 'the nigger gate', making the only true way to get rid of 'the nigger gate' will be to fix it or remove it entirely.
"Honky tonk" probably does have racist origins, "a place honkies go to listen to music" ... doesn't "tonk" sound like some stupid slang they'd come up with now on twatter? An Ebonicsy way of saying "tank"? (As in holding tank).
I'm thinking more of the allied soldiers on the ground during a tense evening's back and forth shooting from cover expecting axis to sneak up on them getting "Spooked" when a member of their team comes over to relieve them of their duties so they can sleep.
There could be a racist element to it of course but I think that's mostly in the head of whoever it was that came up with this censorship.
I thought young people forgot all about that meaning of the word "spook" - hell, it was a relic word when I was young, which is exactly why it was used in Back to the Future as something from the past that no one did any more (it took me this fucking long to spot the bottle opener bit, too, because I've always used church keys, and I actually have no idea when twist tops crept up because of plastic bottles taking the place of glass at about the same damn time(?))
To my understanding, a 'spook' refers to a shady person or stalker. The only time I've ever heard it used is in the phrase 'government spook'. I guess the government are a race now?
When we were kids we called taking a shit a "go spooky". Obviously shit is a race now because when the left thinks about shit they automatically associate shit with people of color.
Spooky... a... racial slur?
A slur against who? The fucking undead?
Let me read the fucking article.... ....
Ok, so this a case of some tiresome know-nothing-know-it-all digging up some old bit of meangless trivia. You know, I think I might have seen/heard 'spook' used to refer to a black person literally three times in my entire life, and I'm pretty sure one of them was an A. Wyatt Mann cartoon.
Why is this old piece of niche, dead American slang from the 1940's a concern for a theatre in fucking SCOTLAND in 2021? Who the fuck uses it in this manner, and who the fuck uses it with a fucking Y on the end?
The only spook I see here is the spy - the quisling commie bastard behind this subversion.
I don't watch movies made this century.
If it's directed by Clint Eastwood it's safe.
I'm going to have to start calling my least favorite inanimate objects 'nigger'.
There's a poorly installed cycle gate at my local park that infuriates anyone who tries to get through it on a bike - its two halves have been set into the ground just a few inches too close together for you to get the handlebars of a bike through unlike every other such gate around the park.
Maybe if I write 'The nigger gate' on it in permananent marker pen, other infuriated cyclists will also come to know it as 'the nigger gate', regardless of whether the ink is scrubbed off. Every cyclist will know precisely why it's 'the nigger gate', making the only true way to get rid of 'the nigger gate' will be to fix it or remove it entirely.
What a thought.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/f1/a0/eaf1a040d7cd54a0c9acd141b9f14947.jpg
Because it's the 1 gate you can't steal a bike through(sorry, I think)
Wtf hahaha, clown world doesn't begin to describe it
I don't get why they would be so niggardly with perfectly innocent language.
Spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, ghost or spectre.
I'm sure that at a time of war, in the darkness, black soldiers would have frightened some people by pretty much being harder to see that Caucasians.
Are they going to ban The Scottish Honky Tonk in Bute because honky can also be interpreted by some outside of the context of music?
A slippery path for an arts institution to go down., and make no mistake.
Won't be long until cockaleeky soup is off the menu due to our transgendered cousins and you can forget about baps for the same reason!
"Honky tonk" probably does have racist origins, "a place honkies go to listen to music" ... doesn't "tonk" sound like some stupid slang they'd come up with now on twatter? An Ebonicsy way of saying "tank"? (As in holding tank).
Rip Dwight Yoakam
That's Johnny Horton's song!
If you can discern the skin color of the fighter pilot, you've got reason to be shitting your pants already.
I'm thinking more of the allied soldiers on the ground during a tense evening's back and forth shooting from cover expecting axis to sneak up on them getting "Spooked" when a member of their team comes over to relieve them of their duties so they can sleep.
There could be a racist element to it of course but I think that's mostly in the head of whoever it was that came up with this censorship.
I thought a "spook" was a glowy, which is an occupation, not a race.
Turns out it's really the CIA Niggers.
(You can spot then when you're driving.)
well that spooky
They must be competing with the Babylon Bee
I thought young people forgot all about that meaning of the word "spook" - hell, it was a relic word when I was young, which is exactly why it was used in Back to the Future as something from the past that no one did any more (it took me this fucking long to spot the bottle opener bit, too, because I've always used church keys, and I actually have no idea when twist tops crept up because of plastic bottles taking the place of glass at about the same damn time(?))
Before you all go “it’s the UK...duh” just know we’re only 10-15 years behind them when it comes to this sort of shit.
To my understanding, a 'spook' refers to a shady person or stalker. The only time I've ever heard it used is in the phrase 'government spook'. I guess the government are a race now?
scotland is not a serious country
I still believe.
What does Scotland have to do with BLM lmao, having to do trainings of white people. Funny term btw.
That's really spooky!
Take a picture and write down the names of people that detail "spooky" as racist.
Then apply them to the nets with the word "Fascist" over their head, and an explanation below.
When we were kids we called taking a shit a "go spooky". Obviously shit is a race now because when the left thinks about shit they automatically associate shit with people of color.