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[Roski]

spook
spo͞ok/Submit
informal
noun
plural noun: spooks
1.
a ghost.
2.
NORTH AMERICAN
a spy.
"a CIA spook"
3.
USoffensivedated
a contemptuous term for a black person.
verb
3rd person present: spooks
1.
frighten; unnerve.
"they spooked a couple of grizzly bears"
(especially of an animal) take fright suddenly.
"he'll spook if we make any noise"
Origin

early 19th century: from Dutch, of unknown origin.

http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=Spook

No.

I gave you the definition. The word "spook" has been around a lot fucking longer than America's use of it

[United Marxist Nations]

Then you are being silly, since the context of a racial slur would make zero sense in the way I used it.

Just fucking read the sentence and replace the words with a slur and "ideological constructs with no objective meaning", and decide which one makes more sense.

Just because you want to co-opt ethnic slurs and use them in everyday language to normalise them, does not make them acceptable.

I didn't. A meme philosopher in the 1800's named Max Stirner did.

http://img.ifcdn.com/images/53d01ffc92d ... b549_1.jpg

In fact, the Stirnerite usage of the word might predate the racial use of it.

[Ardoki]

Please don't use such offensive language. You could offend people, such as myself.

I legitimately do not give a flying fuck if you're offended by my language.

You're a racist! Those are very offensive words to those with a particular level of melanin.

[Shofercia]

Really? So there are LGBTQIA+ concentration camps? Where at? Is the Russian police going into private homes and telling the LGBTQIA+ community to lower their pants so that they can decide if the penis gay or straight?

I said 1930s. The Nazis didn't begin putting them in camps until the very early 1940s. However with the intense hatred Putin is stoking in Russia, it might only be a matter of time until the perceived 'liberal western perverted enemies of Mother Russia' suffer more extreme oppression.

Still waiting on the Gay Kristalnacht...

Ethnic cleansing? In the Donbass?

So tell me, Shofercia, when the Ukrainians recaptured Mariupol and Slaviansk, why didn't they "ethnically cleanse" the population there? Where are the mounds of the the dead?

Probably because a lot of the people living there already fled: http://www.unhcr.org/54d4a2889.html and http://www.unhcr.org/548190aa9.html and http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48d4d6.html

The UN refugee agency reported on Friday that fighting in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region is creating new displacement and pushing the number of registered internally displaced people (IDP) close to the 1 million mark... In addition, some 600,000 Ukrainians have sought asylum or other forms of legal stay in neighbouring countries, particularly the Russian Federation, but also Belarus... More than 2,800 civilians, including about 700 children and 60 people living with disability, have been evacuated from the towns of Debaltseve, Avdiivka and Svitlodar, which have seen fierce combat. Several incidents of shelling of buses carrying the evacuees have been reported... The UN refugee agency reported on Friday that fighting in eastern Ukraine this year has forced more than half-a-million people to flee their homes and find shelter elsewhere in the country, while hundreds of thousands have fled to Russia and other neighbouring states... Ukrainians are also seeking international protection, with some 233,000 applying for refugee status or temporary asylum in the Russian Federation... As of the end of October, 8,936 Ukrainians had asked for international protection in the EU... So far this year, more than 317,000 Ukrainians have applied for such permits in Russia (222,000), Belarus (60,000), Poland (23,000) and other neighbouring countries... UNHCR protects and assists internally displaced people (IDPs) in most countries in the region. The growing humanitarian needs in Ukraine require an urgent response. As of mid-September, more than 275,000 people had been displaced in Ukraine. Some 172,000 people had applied for asylum in neighbouring countries in Europe, including more than 168,000 people in the Russian Federation. A further 149,000 applied for other forms of legal stay in the Russian Federation.

Generally speaking, refugees run away from the people trying to ethnically cleanse them, not towards it.

[Ardoki]

http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=Spook

No.

I gave you the definition. The word "spook" has been around a lot fucking longer than America's use of it

I gave you the definition from a non-profit organisations called the Racial Slur Database, which is devoted to collecting racial slurs so we can detect who is racist.

[Allanea]

Word definitions and word usage change over time.

[United Marxist Nations]

No.

I gave you the definition. The word "spook" has been around a lot fucking longer than America's use of it

I gave you the definition from a non-profit organisations called the Racial Slur Database, which is devoted to collecting racial slurs so we can detect who is racist.

Well too fucking bad, because your racial use of the word is a lot fucking newer than all the other fucking uses of it, and we can tell damn well what a word means by its context. Now, can you please tell me how I could have possibly been calling Human Rights a derogatory word for black people?

[Roski]

I legitimately do not give a flying fuck if you're offended by my language.

You're a racist! Those are very offensive words to those with a particular level of melanin.

Totally. Burning crosses and every fucking thing. Using the terms in academic context does not make someone fucking racist. Considering you're using American fucking terms in a thread about RUSSIAN politics, you calling a foriegn national racist over using a term that stopped being used over 20 years ago makes no fucking sense

Stop threadjacking.

[Ardoki]

I gave you the definition from a non-profit organisations called the Racial Slur Database, which is devoted to collecting racial slurs so we can detect who is racist.

Well too fucking bad, because your racial use of the word is a lot fucking newer than all the other fucking uses of it, and we can tell damn well what a word means by its context. Now, can you please tell me how I could have possibly been calling Human Rights a derogatory word for black people?

I only discovered it was a racial slur today. However that is no excuse to use the word, ignorance of possible definitions is not a defence.

[Allanea]

From your own link, Shofercia:

s forced more than half-a-million people to flee their homes and find shelter elsewhere in the country,

More people are displaced within Ukjraine - I.e. they're moving from the Donbass towards other Ukrainians.

Further, the fact that people that moved from Ukraine to Russia doesn't mean that there was an ethnic cleansing attempt.

[Shofercia]

So where's the LGBTQIA+ version of Kristalnacht?

There are various videos on youtube of LGBTQIA+ being harassed by Russian neo-nazis, many of which are tortured and possibly then killed. While the Russian authorities don't do anything to stop it, they even encourage it.

Is that why the leader of anti-LGBT organization, O-P, is in jail?

That's a single judge handing out an idiotic fine. The article says that she's appealing it, and that she was found not guilty in the previous trial. Климова намерена обжаловать приговор в ближайшие дни... Однако Дзержинский суд Нижнего Тагила в феврале 2014 года Климову оправдал

Yes, but Children 404 was - to my knowledge - either totally shut down or came close to being shut down as a result.

Anyway, gay propaganda laws are dumb, and oppressive, I'm sorry to say.

Are Russia's anti-LGBT laws dumb and oppressive? Absolutely. Are they on the level of anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany? Absolutely not. Oh, and they're active. Took me all of 2 seconds to find that out: http://www.deti-404.com/

I legitimately do not give a flying fuck if you're offended by my language.

You're a racist! Those are very offensive words to those with a particular level of melanin.

No, he isn't. You're just throwing random labels around.

[United Marxist Nations]

Well too fucking bad, because your racial use of the word is a lot fucking newer than all the other fucking uses of it, and we can tell damn well what a word means by its context. Now, can you please tell me how I could have possibly been calling Human Rights a derogatory word for black people?

I only discovered it was a racial slur today. However that is no excuse to use the word, ignorance of possible definitions is not a defence.

Hasn't stopped you from calling people Neo-Nazis.

[Shofercia]

From your own link, Shofercia:

s forced more than half-a-million people to flee their homes and find shelter elsewhere in the country,

More people are displaced within Ukjraine - I.e. they're moving from the Donbass towards other Ukrainians.

Further, the fact that people that moved from Ukraine to Russia doesn't mean that there was an ethnic cleansing attempt.

How about a statement from Ukraine's Prime Minister?



The links also talk about most of them moving to the capitals of Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts, which are under Separatist Control.

[Ghatawerpya]

Well not if they say they are.

They? Your quote was of a single Rebel making a single statement. You do know that the term "they" is plural, right?

Donbass rebels can be male or female. Which is why I used the singular they.

Ethnic cleansing? In the Donbass?

So tell me, Shofercia, when the Ukrainians recaptured Mariupol and Slaviansk, why didn't they "ethnically cleanse" the population there? Where are the mounds of the the dead?

Probably because a lot of the people living there already fled: http://www.unhcr.org/54d4a2889.html and http://www.unhcr.org/548190aa9.html and http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48d4d6.html

The UN refugee agency reported on Friday that fighting in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region is creating new displacement and pushing the number of registered internally displaced people (IDP) close to the 1 million mark... In addition, some 600,000 Ukrainians have sought asylum or other forms of legal stay in neighbouring countries, particularly the Russian Federation, but also Belarus... More than 2,800 civilians, including about 700 children and 60 people living with disability, have been evacuated from the towns of Debaltseve, Avdiivka and Svitlodar, which have seen fierce combat. Several incidents of shelling of buses carrying the evacuees have been reported... The UN refugee agency reported on Friday that fighting in eastern Ukraine this year has forced more than half-a-million people to flee their homes and find shelter elsewhere in the country, while hundreds of thousands have fled to Russia and other neighbouring states... Ukrainians are also seeking international protection, with some 233,000 applying for refugee status or temporary asylum in the Russian Federation... As of the end of October, 8,936 Ukrainians had asked for international protection in the EU... So far this year, more than 317,000 Ukrainians have applied for such permits in Russia (222,000), Belarus (60,000), Poland (23,000) and other neighbouring countries... UNHCR protects and assists internally displaced people (IDPs) in most countries in the region. The growing humanitarian needs in Ukraine require an urgent response. As of mid-September, more than 275,000 people had been displaced in Ukraine. Some 172,000 people had applied for asylum in neighbouring countries in Europe, including more than 168,000 people in the Russian Federation. A further 149,000 applied for other forms of legal stay in the Russian Federation.

Generally speaking, refugees run away from the people trying to ethnically cleanse them, not towards it.

Hey that's like what happened to the Georgians living in the Kodori Gorge. Do you admit that Abkhazia committed ethnic cleansing (in the last decade) now?

[Shofercia]

They? Your quote was of a single Rebel making a single statement. You do know that the term "they" is plural, right?

Donbass rebels can be male or female. Which is why I used the singular they.

Probably because a lot of the people living there already fled: http://www.unhcr.org/54d4a2889.html and http://www.unhcr.org/548190aa9.html and http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e48d4d6.html



Generally speaking, refugees run away from the people trying to ethnically cleanse them, not towards it.

Hey that's like what happened to the Georgians living in the Kodori Gorge. Do you admit that Abkhazia committed ethnic cleansing (in the last decade) now?

As was explained to you numerous fucking times, the Georgians were military. Not civilian. Do you seriously not grasp the difference between the two? Georgia's military was outmaneuvered and forced to retreat/surrender. Georgian civilians were largely unharmed.

[Allanea]

Generally speaking, refugees run away from the people trying to ethnically cleanse them, not towards it.

This assumes that I believe iether Russia or the Ukrainians are committing ethnic cleansing.

But I never said that.

[Robert Bork]

Donbass rebels can be male or female. Which is why I used the singular they.


Hey that's like what happened to the Georgians living in the Kodori Gorge. Do you admit that Abkhazia committed ethnic cleansing (in the last decade) now?

As was explained to you numerous fucking times, the Georgians were military. Not civilian. Do you seriously not grasp the difference between the two? Georgia's military was outmaneuvered and forced to retreat/surrender. Georgian civilians were largely unharmed.

Chill out there.

[Shofercia]

Generally speaking, refugees run away from the people trying to ethnically cleanse them, not towards it.

This assumes that I believe iether Russia or the Ukrainians are committing ethnic cleansing.

But I never said that.

You asked for proof of Kiev's government's wartime atrocities. I provided a good amount, and a quote from Ukraine's prime minister calling the DonBass Rebels, "subhumans"

[Shofercia]

As was explained to you numerous fucking times, the Georgians were military. Not civilian. Do you seriously not grasp the difference between the two? Georgia's military was outmaneuvered and forced to retreat/surrender. Georgian civilians were largely unharmed.

Chill out there.

I'm teddibly sorry mah good mang, did my bolding, italicizing, and underlining of two words, and the use of the term "fucking", offend you? I mean Ardoki got offended by the term "spook", maybe it's the "I'm offended day" on NSG, and I didn't get the memo.

[Robert Bork]

Chill out there.

I'm teddibly sorry mah good mang, did my bolding, italicizing, and underlining of two words, and the use of the term "fucking", offend you? I mean Ardoki got offended by the term "spook", maybe it's the "I'm offended day" on NSG, and I didn't get the memo.

Me thinks you doth protest too much. I'm not offended. Just saying it's a little awkward for you to act so angry.

[Shofercia]

I'm teddibly sorry mah good mang, did my bolding, italicizing, and underlining of two words, and the use of the term "fucking", offend you? I mean Ardoki got offended by the term "spook", maybe it's the "I'm offended day" on NSG, and I didn't get the memo.

Me thinks you doth protest too much. I'm not offended. Just saying it's a little awkward for you to act so angry.

I was unaware that bolding, italicizing, and underlining an entirety of two words, as well as the use of one of the most commonly utilized words in the English language denoted supreme anger, enough to derail a thread for a post or two...

[Robert Bork]

Me thinks you doth protest too much. I'm not offended. Just saying it's a little awkward for you to act so angry.

I was unaware that bolding, italicizing, and underlining an entirety of two words, as well as the use of one of the most commonly utilized words in the English language denoted supreme anger, enough to derail a thread for a post or two...

I understand that you bolded, italicized, and underlined your words. It's the power of three. I know it well. Just simmer a little bit, you know? It's just a forum.

[Shofercia]

I was unaware that bolding, italicizing, and underlining an entirety of two words, as well as the use of one of the most commonly utilized words in the English language denoted supreme anger, enough to derail a thread for a post or two...

I understand that you bolded, italicized, and underlined your words. It's the power of three. I know it well. Just simmer a little bit, you know? It's just a forum.

I was unaware of the power of three. I take it this post demonstrates supreme anger.

[Robert Bork]

I understand that you bolded, italicized, and underlined your words. It's the power of three. I know it well. Just simmer a little bit, you know? It's just a forum.

I was unaware of the power of three. I take it this post demonstrates supreme anger.

Take it easy.

[Shofercia]

I was unaware of the power of three. I take it this post demonstrates supreme anger.

Take it easy.

My good man, I am quite relaxed. I am just proving it to you, initially through sarcasm and now through direct statement, that the power of three does not always, and not even usually, denote anger. Don't get mad, get: