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1 minute ago, Tex Pete said:

I have heard the term used a fair amount over the years, but almost always by a black guy referring to another black guy or group of black guys in a disparaging manner.

I think we should all have more mercy on people for misspeaking or even saying something offensive without meaning to offend. Society would be better off if we weren't all trying to "gotcha" each other all the 

I've been aware of the word for years, but the only time I remember someone use it was in 1983, my freshman year in college. I lived in a dorm that year and there was these 2 guys from Houston that looked like aggy corps cadets. These guys were straight up hard core racists. I found out after a while everyone referred to them as "The Nazis". Last I heard they both dropped out and became HPD officers. Really surprised I haven't heard about these guys being involved in a George Floyd type situation. Real pieces of shit. 

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15 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

To be fair, Booger always has that look on his face.

I think that's steve young on his right, and he always has that expression on his face as well. Freeze it at the beginning and they are both making the exact same face. I think its fuckin funny and we should be more like George Carlin. Pussies 

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3 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

that is the first shit I thought of

this is the scene when a friend of mine and I looked at each other and got up and walked out of the theater

it was "half price Thursday" at the dollar theater and we both felt we had been fucking ripped off

we made sure to choose movies more carefully after that when we were bored as shit

what a horribly shitty movie even for a spike lee "jam"

Something tells me you weren't the target audience.

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The county I grew up in literally had no black people at that time, and I was aware that it (jig) was a slur towards black people.

I didn't think of it as on the level of the N word, but more like referencing ghosts and raccoons as racial slurs.  But I'm a white guy who didn't really know a black person until I was 15 so.

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1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

Call me crazy but i think intent matters a great deal

So if I say the n word instead of trigger, bigger, chigger, etc it wouldn't matter? The word is the word no matter the context. RG3's explanation that he meant to say 'bug-a-boo' also doesn't fit in the context of what he was saying. He said this word instead.

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43 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

It was a mistake.  Cancel culture sucks.

I don't think I've seen anyone furious over this and wants him off the air. More just people in jest saying 'if this was a white person then....' I created this thread for the laughs because it was pretty ridiculous and comical he used a deeply rooted slave term from way back then on live tv and floored many listening, including his co-hosts. 

He made a social media apology and we'll see if ESPN makes him apologize on air ala Lee Corso but this is kind of a non story, just a weird ass soundbite. From a very weird dude.,

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5 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

i have never heard that term before.  how bad is it?

It's not good. My grandfather used to say it all the time. It's probably just below the n-word and right in there with another slang word for black people that starts with a C.

 

5 hours ago, 'stache said:

 

Don Imus said it in reference to this movie in his stuff about the Rutgers women's basketball team that got him fired. It's been out there.

Don was fired after calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hoes."

 

4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I just wish it had been Marc Jones who said it.

True that.

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4 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

So if I say the n word instead of trigger, bigger, chigger, etc it wouldn't matter? The word is the word no matter the context. RG3's explanation that he meant to say 'bug-a-boo' also doesn't fit in the context of what he was saying. He said this word instead.

A persons character — the body of their historical conduct — and what can reasonably be inferred as their intent (did they aim to demean or harm?) matters a great deal more than a single flub 

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45 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

A persons character — the body of their historical conduct — and what can reasonably be inferred as their intent (did they aim to demean or harm?) matters a great deal more than a single flub 

The clip seems pretty harmless to me. I don't think he was even really referring to persons who were all black.

He should apologize for using an offensive word that both he and his employers do not condone. My mind could be changed by general outrage from the black community; they're better and more appropriate judges than me. I'll go with their opinion.

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4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

People don’t watch Police Academy any more?  I think I saw it’s on Netflix. 
 

isn’t that what he calls hooks for running over his foot in the cruiser?

Yup- captain Mowser (sp?) call Hooks a “dumb fat j-“ in Police Academy. Really the only time I’ve heard the word used.

 RG3 was talking so fast trying to get his point across that I think his mouth started moving faster than his brain. I buy his explanation that he was going “bugaboos” but it was because he was talking to fast to come up with a better word like haters or doubters.

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Just now, Ignatius said:

van halen GIF 

Man, I guess it was a West Texas thing but I’m 56 and the (unfortunately numerous) racist branches of my family tree used that word (usually in abbreviated form) frequently. It was one of several phrases people used in place of the hard N because good Baptists aren’t hateful….

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1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

A persons character — the body of their historical conduct — and what can reasonably be inferred as their intent (did they aim to demean or harm?) matters a great deal more than a single flub 

When has that mattered to cancel culture?

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6 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

That term is a racist term whether you have heard it or not. Being oblivious to a racist term doesn't make any difference. It's been phased out in most vocabs but the meaning didn't go away. I honestly didn't know there was that many people who didn't know about this word. It went viral as soon as he said it. 

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jigga boo

I’m guessing there’s a lot of posters on here who have never heard the term….could be wrong…..haven’t heard it used/said in many moons!

After seeing this, I told my wife, Sapphire….holy mackerel!

 

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