Real Police... Urban/redneck style

[Hop]

Removed

[canuckofapeach]

LOL

Check out the 'jive' dialect :D

[Ruprect]

LOL

Check out the 'jive' dialect :D

Honky pigs

[RO56]

Depending upon your world views, one could consider this "a riot".

Or even "racist".

Or certainly "not in good taste".

[Hop]

Didn't take it as racist. Took it as uneducated... but I didn't look at the "Jive" one before, just the redneck.

Well if it offends one, it offends more... So although I found it nothing more than humor, I have removed the link...

Sorry if this offended anyone!

[RO56]

Didn't take it as racist. Took it as uneducated... but I didn't look at the "Jive" one before, just the redneck.

I didn't (necessarily) say that *I* took it as racist, just that *some* might ... ;)

[canuckofapeach]

This was the disclaimer on the site, fwiw.

The Dialectizer is not intended to be racist, sexist, or otherwise demeaning or discriminatory toward any ethnic, religious, or cultural group, or any other minority (or even majority). Nowhere on this site will you find any advocation of discrimination against any group of people, which is what racism is.

Although the vast, vast majority of the email I've received about The Dialectizer, most notably from those who consider themselves among those one of The Dialectizer's dialects tries to emulate, has been highly complimentary, there are a scant few who are concerned that The Dialectizer may be racist in nature and have accused me of such. It isn't. Nowhere are racial issues even mentioned. And while cultural differences are acknowledged, nowhere is there the expression or implication that one cultural group is inherently inferior than another cultural group; nor do I advocate anywhere, explicitly or implicitly, that one cultural group should be discriminated against. The simple fact is that I have a strong aversion to such discrimination and despise true racism as much or more than those complaining that The Dialectizer might be. Discrimination against whole racial or cultural groups is a terrible abomination.

However, the acknowledgement of cultural differences is not inherently an expression of discrimination -- nor should it be. In fact, calling it that only increases tensions between ethnic groups, as it makes people paranoid even to talk about these issues that so desperately need to be talked about. Acknowledgement of cultural differences is not bad. Discrimination based on cultural differences is. The Dialectizer acknowledges cultural differences but does not discriminate. The Dialectizer attempts to find humor in cultural differences, but this humor is absolutely not intended to be demeaning in any way. It does not make fun of cultural dialects; rather, it mines humor that may be found when certain English passages are expressed in a dialect we are not used to hearing such English passages expressed in. By no means is The Dialectizer intended to ridicule or demean.

It is my hope that, by deriving non-discriminatory and non-demeaning humor from cultural differences, we will be able to relax and ease the tensions that make good race relations so difficult to achieve otherwise. Let's face it. The only way we will ever conquer racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination is not by suppressing those differences but by cherishing them, bringing them out into the open in such a comfortable and non-threatening way that we ourselves become at ease enough with them so that we need not be ashamed of them -- so that we can talk about race relations in a way that isn't grave or guarded or fearful of dire consequence -- so that we may treat racial differences for what they are: extant but, when making any sort of judgment of character, insignificant.

[oscarmitre]

Oi! Where is it? Jeez I could do with a chuckle. Does he do Australian slang at all on there? I'd love to read about Roil Police, fair dinkum I would. How may dialects has it got? Can I learn jive from it?

[Norm357]

Damnitt, put the link back.

[txinvestigator1]

Just stating that "what I am about to say is not racist" does not mean what is next uttered will not actually be racist.

Based on the disclaimer, I suspect it was indeed racist, regardless of the intent.

[Hop]

??? I'm not sure what to take of this. The intent of the post was humor. It did poke fun at a sub-culture, whether that be poorly educated or the millions of Eminem followers. I think it’s impossible for anyone to say that people who use this slang can claim that it is reserved for any one ethnical background. I think that one would have to imbed someone’s own beliefs to bridge the gap and call it racist. I mean one of the emulators changed things to Elmer Fudd for crying out loud, that's been funny for three-quarters of a century. I am a minority and I’m proud of it. But to say that the song ten little Indians offends me would be a farce.

Again I apologize if anyone took the post as anything more than what it was intended for... Humor.

[txinvestigator1]

. I am a minority and I’m proud of it..

That is an interesting statement. Thats like me saying I am a man, or 5'9" tall, or lost my hair, and I am proud of it.

How can you be proud of something over which you did nothing to accomplish and had no control over?

[Hop]

Wow... Maybe I need a break from RP, because that was insulting:mad:

I'm proud of it the same way I could be ashamed of it... My grandmother would pour lemon juice on herself and bake in the sun after she was told it was best to lighten the pigment of her skin. This was done in an effort to fit in with the so-called "upper class whites" she was in grade school with. She was made to feel that being Cherokee was a bad thing in the 1930s. I in-turn am proud to be who I am and make no apologies for it!

[oscarmitre]

I'd hate to see a flame war develop here.

Hop I think you'll find you won't need to take a break from RP because bad stuff doesn't last long here. It's sorted out one way or the other.

Now about that link.....

[CheesyHat]

LOL

Check out the 'jive' dialect :D

I pissed my pants when I read it.. If you want the link to the website, GOOGLE: The Dialectizer"


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Im crying so hard, boogers are coming out of my nose. Seriously.