The "N" Word
Most of the Newfoundlanders I know are not promoting being called, "Newfie" anymore. Has it truly become like another "N" word.
Comments?
Fred from CBS
Comments?
Fred from CBS
posted by Fred Harris | 12:24 PM
3 Comments:
I don't much use "Newfie," but I also don't generally care to be too hard on people over names. I'm more concerned with public policies that discriminate againt NLers, there are at least a few of them!
I'm not a fan, but I usually don't get too hot & bothered by it. It depends on the context, I suppose.
Generally speaking, I don't think it has any place in the "responsible/respectable" media, any more than "Pollack" or "Kraut" does.
I once had an employee file a discrimination suit aginst a fellow worker of several workers. Along these lines.
The young man was Canadian by all rights born and bred. But he insisted on refering to himself as a Can't remember now, China man or Jap something like that?
I said to him one time before the suit was filed " you know if you want people to not call you these derogitory names first of all you have to stop referring to yourself with them"
I said this to him several weeks before he filed the descrimination suit. Because I noticed he was uncomfortable with the remarks. I even mentioned off handedly to his fellow workers that he seemed uncomfortable with the names. Their response was he referres to himself with the same terms.
I personally have no beef with the N word.
Then again I can call you a princess and not mean princess so alot of a words meaning is in the delivery and context or for that matter even in how you say it!
I'll never understand Black people calling each other N but if anyone else says it they are being derogitory??????????
Maybe it is like a pet name I don't know?
Ignore them they will go away?? That would require putting your fingers in your ears because unlike your eyes you can't close them. Your ears that is.
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