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Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb
define racist
chinky defines a restaurant or a meal and isn't racist in the slightest when used in that context
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It's absurd to think that you can just take a word, separate it from the pragmatic and societal factors governing its use, and thus free its meaning from any racial connotations. This is most pressing in cases where there is mild invariance in the word's meaning: for instance, using it to refer to a meal, or restaurant, which bears historical and cultural ties to the ethnicity of the people towards which the word was employed as a pejorative.