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Post #502139

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Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda
Parent topic
The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars movie. Or is it?
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Date created
25-May-2011, 5:21 PM

Bingowings said:

Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:

Bingowings said:

Racial epithets are only bigoted when they are attached to a history of repression.

So when American kids would tell "Polack jokes", that wasn't bigoted?

Poland is a country not a race and it has many ethnic groups and a long history of being repressed.

So I'm confused.  If an epithet is racial, it is only bigotted if it is attached to a history of repression, but if an epithet is nationalistic in nature, is it bigoted or not?  And if it can only be bigoted if there is oppression, does that oppression have to come from the country of the person telling the epithet, or could it come from someone from another country? The reason I ask, is that I have been unable to find a definition from any dictionary that links and restricts bigotry specifically to repression.