tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5961006065192244756.post2212070687818368251..comments2023-10-05T07:11:05.917-04:00Comments on Art at the Auction: Poor John Kerrypetplutohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01053307189721906583noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5961006065192244756.post-37098405333078470012008-07-24T20:06:00.000-04:002008-07-24T20:06:00.000-04:00While I think you make a good point, one of the re...While I think you make a good point, one of the reasons I posted this is because I read through a lot of the comments on Feministing and discovered that although the first thing that came to MY mind was in fact the racial connotations, that for many many others, the "dictionary sense" is still their frame of reference. So while the outrage about John Kerry is something I completely understand -because that was my frame of reference too- , I also think that there's another side to it. And that a lot of the comments on Feministing are more articulate on that particular aspect of it than I could ever hope to be.<BR/><BR/>As for the black man aspect of it, I'm not going to touch that with a 10-foot pole. I make no claims to know how John Kerry's mind works and maybe there was a sort of word association thing happening; in any case, the incident becomes even more charged because of that than it would have been otherwise -thought it certainly would have been a controversy no matter what.petplutohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053307189721906583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5961006065192244756.post-10144253163122405422008-07-24T19:41:00.000-04:002008-07-24T19:41:00.000-04:00I don't know; maybe that's just my white showing. ...<EM>I don't know; maybe that's just my white showing. </EM><BR/>You called it. The problem is that though he used the term in a "dictionary sense", it still has very racial connotations and for that reason alone he should refrain from using. There is just no reason to use this word when there are so many options...I find it telling that it came up in a conversation in which he was discussing a black man...but of course there is no racial link right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com