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mattyoclock t1_j6ugjnl wrote

Reply to comment by Radiant-Shine-8575 in Harvard women's hockey coach under fire after reported racist comments to Indigenous players by zsreport

It’s not a new phrase and might not have been said with racist intent, but it’s still racist as hell.

There was a street I knew growing up that was originally called “n-word hollow”. And the old people would sometimes use that name giving directions because that’s what they always called it.

It doesn’t stop being a racist phrase because they were just giving directions.

I knew another old lady who called macadamia nuts n-word toes, is that fine and acceptable just because she means macadamia nuts? It was a common phrase for a hundred years and just means some nuts after all.

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CaptLatinAmerica t1_j6v37gb wrote

Let’s get one thing straight here: you mean Brazil nuts, not macadamia nuts.

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mattyoclock t1_j6v9ttl wrote

Do I? The triangular ones with the really tough shells anyways.

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CaptLatinAmerica t1_j6vd3dt wrote

YES THOSE

Macadamia nuts are also famously hard to crack but they are commonly referred to as gypsy’s nipples, Polish noses, Jew-warts, Seventh Day Adventist hemorrhoids, or Samoan carbuncles.

Certainly not racist.

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