This began as a discussion with a Jewish friend, someone I respect greatly. I will call my friend Aaron. Aaron, of course is a pseudonym. The words below the picture (of John Carridine as Aaron) are an edited version of an email sent to me. Aaron is a socially committed and very learned Jew. He[...]
Posts Tagged ‘honkey’
January 19th, 2016 - 11:40 am § in Misc.
Please call me “Honkey”
Stephen Schwartz The movies thus year were pretty bad overall. I doubt that there was a movie with a Black star or director that stood out. Did you see one? Lisa McElroy I would hazard a guess that the reason (you were called) an idiot has nothing to do with whether or not there was a […][...]
August 3rd, 2015 - 12:13 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: What Hawaians call their Honkeys
Haole (US, Hawaiian) A non-native, used by Hawaiians mainly to refer to whites (less commonly to refer to non-Hawaiians). Can be used neutrally, dependent on context.[96][...]
August 3rd, 2015 - 3:05 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: What Aussies call their Honkeys
Gub, Gubba (AUS) Aboriginal pejorative term for white people[87][...]
December 2nd, 2014 - 1:06 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: Synonym for “Honkey”
Peckerwood a slur that was used through the mid 20th century by southern African Americans and upper class whites used to describe poor rural whites. It is still used mostly by African Americans against White people.[...]
December 2nd, 2014 - 1:04 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: What do the Aussies call their Honkeys?
Pom, Pohm, Pommy, Pommie, Pommie Grant (AUS/NZ/SA) a British (usually English) immigrant. Some claim it derives from “Prisoner of Mother England” or “Prisoner of Her Majesty”, but it probably derives from pomegranate, rhyming slang for “immigrant”.[153] It is ofte[...]
October 2nd, 2014 - 4:59 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: What do the Irish call their Honkeys?
Orange bastard (Scotland, (Northern) Ireland) used by Catholic Irish or Scottish Republicans for a presumed Protestant in Ireland or Great Britain, who is perceived to be a Unionist, i.e. supporting union of Northern Ireland with the United Kingdom. “Orange” refers to the Orange order, a[...]
September 29th, 2014 - 5:19 pm § in Jews
You, you … caveman!
Fifth of Neanderthals’ genetic code lives on in modern humans outside of Africa Benjamin Vernot and Joshua Akey at the University of Washington reported in Science that they sequenced the genomes of more than 600 people from Europe and eastern Asia. They found a lasting legacy of sexual encou[...]
September 3rd, 2014 - 12:58 pm § in Misc.
Slur of the Day
Ofay (US) a white person or honkey from Pig Latin for “foe.” [29][140][...]
August 14th, 2014 - 4:34 am § in Misc.
Slur of the Day: Four “K words”
Keling a word used to describe people originating from the Indian subcontinent by native Malaysians and Indonesians – originally merely descriptive, it has come since the 1960s to be considered offensive by a majority of Indians Kike Honkey term for Jews. Kraut (from Sauerkraut) (North Amer[...]