dude you should have just called someone a spook, then you'd be unshackled by now

Heya glorious leader,

could you swing your benevolent dictatorship by http://www.videosift.com/video/Faces-Of-Death-1 and make a ruling/throw in an opinion?

Also, QM ought to be unhobbled - spook does not mean black in that context, but someone who covers his every move - Snow Crashers know them as "Gargoyles".

It's unfortunate so many thin-skinned critics 'round here are so easily spooked.

While you're waiting, how 'bout another health care fact: 60 billion dollars is lost to Medicaid fraud every year. But don't worry, I'm sure Obamarxcare will have it alllll worked out so there's no money wasted .

I browse this site via unsifted videos by newest date and through the recent comments. When I am on, I read all of the comments, in a separate tab, that I refresh every so often.

The "recent comments" tab includes the drivel you sadly post to yourself on your profile. I upvote or downvote accordingly. Maybe you should send messages to yourself privately if you don't like it.

I don't care what movie it's a quote from. I notice you didn't answer the simple question dag asked, what did you mean by calling me a spook?

Nigger, ghost or spy? Or are you just vomiting out random movie quotes that have nothing to do with anything?

As for who got the horns. I don't feel a thing.

For the record: I have no idea of the race of the individual to whom it was addressed (and still don't). It was directed at one of several whippersnappers with nothing better to do but follow me around the Sift "minusing" any and all of my comments---including self-posts at my own siftnook---no matter how benign or unrelated to politics. It was probably one of them that went out of his/er way to be offended and whom reported this non-crime.

Some of the more refined/nerdy will recognize the "spook" line as being from the original Back to the Future. As it was in a PG-rated 'family' film then it's good enough for me. Google it if you wish.

Sorry you had to waste your time on this. As for the complainer, Lincoln's definition of 'hypocrite' is in order: someone who kills both his parents, then begs the court for mercy because he's an orphan.

S/he farked with the bull and got the horns, and is now proclaiming impalement even though the horns were made of Nerf!


In reply to this comment by dag:
So, yeah. What did you mean there?

In reply to this comment by quantumushroom:
^ Beat it, spook, this don't concern you.

>> ^fford:
and the only people I've ever heard use it to describe ghosts are very old or dead (in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spook).


I would think that most people have heard it in common use in this context on cartoons such as Scooby Doo where it's used in most episodes. I suppose those cartoons are mostly quite old, though.

I haven't heard of the racist use of this word in the UK, but as said above, it appears to mainly be a US thing. Once again, I learn from The Sift.

I dislike Caucasians, black people, Asians, Mexicans, green people, gray people, spooks, spicks, spocks, and the Dutch...

and every other name you can think of.

Everyone sucks - racially.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
I know if someone referred to black people as "spooks" in my house I'd show them the door.

What about referring to penises? Like this sentence, for instance: I like to spit on my forefinger and thumb and rub the head of my spook until it spits back. Is that okay?

@ForgedReality:

No, EndAll's brother got banned for using "spook", because the user who dropped the N bomb is different than the one who used "spook." See:

13444 wrote this, and got instabanned by dag

14424 wrote this, and got instabanned by KOMMIE

Just because some of you might not know "spook" is a racist term doesn't mean that it's not a slur or that it's not as bad as better known slurs. Also, I've lived in Nebraska, Florida, New York, Maryland, Colorado and Wyoming, and in every one of those places people knew that "spook" was a slur. I'm guessing it's the same all over the U.S., and in Canada too. But I suppose that's besides the point, because even if it's a slur only familiar to a few members, then it shouldn't be allowed.

For example, most of us now know (thanks to George Allen) that "macaca" is a racist term, even though it's quite uncommon in most places. So should we allow members to call black people "macacas" because of its relatively low usage?

And to those who want to cry "CENSORSHIP!", because someone always wants to throw freedom of speech into these things, please reorder your priorities. Like it's been said a million times before, this is NOT a country. It's a web site. It's like a big house where there's always a party going on, and you're invited as long as you abide by a few rules. I know if someone referred to black people as "spooks" in my house I'd show them the door.

I don't want this place to turn into a shit hole where people can hurl racial or ethnic slurs with impunity. That'll attract the wrong kind of people, and then watch the advertisers fly out the door when they see their wares being advertised next to shit like "spook." And then say goodbye to VideoSift.

Based on the precedent established by the Westy affair I'm going to hobble QM. I fail to see how QM's usage of "spook" could have been meant in any other way except as a racial slur. I leave it to the admins to decide how long he should be hobbled.

>> ^blankfist:
Wait, burd is black? News to me. Not that it should matter, but it would put a different spin on the whole thing.
Also, anyone else finding it ironic that we're all up in arms over the use of the word "spook", yet the more offensive words have already been used in this post?

Shut up you fraggle rocker

Wait, burd is black? News to me. Not that it should matter, but it would put a different spin on the whole thing.

Also, anyone else finding it ironic that we're all up in arms over the use of the word "spook", yet the more offensive words have already been used in this post?

>> ^burdturgler:
>> ^quantumushroom:
^ Beat it, spook, this don't concern you.

discuss
this is more "satire"?
Or do we just call black people "spooks" here whenever we feel like it now?

are you black? not that it matters in any context other than this.

>> ^EndAll:
And, might I add, rather promptly.


Actually, I think he got banned for using the word "nigger," although I don't know anything about the situation. However, if you scroll further down, you see another post of his in all caps. That, to me, seems more offensive than his first post there, and the more likely culprit to securing him a shiny new ban.

I don't think it's too out of the question to consider that many people may not have heard of the word "spook" within the context in which we're discussing. The other word is the more commonly referenced one, and the last time I heard "spook" was in the new Eastwood film 'Gran Torino.' I knew the word before that, but it's far more rare.

QM certainly did know what he was saying, however.

his choice of words would suggest that he is

>> ^quantumushroom:
^ Beat it, spook, this don't concern you.

*discuss
this is more "satire"?
Or do we just call black people "spooks" here whenever we feel like it now?

if he isn't, well.. perhaps QM's comment was just a distasteful jab for the "yawn"

either way, I'd say a hobbling is in order (at least) to get the point across that that language is unacceptable, regardless of the race of the person it was directed at

i didn't know burdy was/is black either. and i'd previously never heard of the word 'spook' being used in that context.

still, can we start a poll or something, maybe a separate talk post? i hear these kind of things bring out the best in people.