Grammatically incorrect maybe, but not racist by any means. Nobody should get fired/suspended from their work (as a CBA basketball player was recently) for simply stating a fact. I'm sure if a jew was quoted for saying "I've got a bigshot black lawyer/teacher etc. working for me" would not have the same done to them.
2007-04-03 18:12:56 · 11 answers · asked by Whatever 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I believe that if someone used the phase kike or ****** it would be offensive, but he didn't use any racial slur, he simply made a comment and now he has writers describing how he went off on "an anti-sementic rant". I don't think using the term "big shot" poses an issue, since on a basketball note, Robert Horry has "bigshot Rob" as a nickname and he enjoys it.
2007-04-03 21:14:14 · update #1
If a fan or a referee had called that player a freaky millionaire N..... basketball player the referee would be dumped without any questions and the fan would have probably been punched and then thrown in jail.
2007-04-03 18:24:15 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not politically correct, either. The problem came in when the
"big shot lawyer" became identified as belonging to any specific racial, religious, ethnic or any other sort of group.
I am in full agreement with people not practicing or preaching discrimination. However in this day and age there is very little that one can say without offending someone, especially since there are so many people looking for something to be offended about. I wish that we could somehow go back to the days when common courtesy was common practice, and people weren't always looking for something to turn into a cause.
2007-04-03 18:27:11 · answer #2 · answered by PJPeach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He used the term in a very negative sense, making being a Jewish lawyer a bad thing. Its not racist, its stereotyping Jews as being the people who earn all the money and its suggesting that Jews are the cause of problems. The connotations behind what he said were anti-semitic, but not the words themselves.
2007-04-07 07:13:29 · answer #3 · answered by laislinns 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same as "know all black man" or "big obnoxious white guy". Why is it required that people feel the need to add an ethnic identifier to a sentence? If Martin Luther King had stated, "I've seen the white mans mountain top...", it would of diminished his persona and destroyed all sense of character. Don't stoop to using cheap, attention grabbing, ethnic lines.
2016-05-17 03:48:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason "load black people" is an insult.
You can't make a generalization about an entire race without upsetting people. Doesn't matter if it's true or not.
2007-04-03 18:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by BadGirlGimpy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to tell you that it sounds offensive. It has to do with the tone, innuendo and the derogatory way that "Jew" has come to be used.
There really shouldn't be anything wrong with it, but you can always tell whether people are speaking out of the goodness or their heart, or out of prejudice.
2007-04-03 18:16:17 · answer #6 · answered by Joe C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, the term is anti-SEMITIC. Secondly, referring to a persons religion/race/gender in a negative way is racist/anti-Semitic/misogynistic (choose the appropriate term for the situation.) You want to shoot your mouth off in public- you get to live with the consequences
2007-04-05 23:40:28 · answer #7 · answered by allonyoav 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the basketball player was fired for saying that, then I have to wonder how big time his lawyer really was
2007-04-03 18:25:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know, that is an excellent point.
I propose a change in the acceptable language. It is now no longer acceptable to refer to anyone by race or ethnicity, even for strictly descriptive purposes.
2007-04-03 18:18:13 · answer #9 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
its just wrong! you appear to hold something against jews when you say something like that.
2007-04-04 02:48:25 · answer #10 · answered by Blazin'22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋