raybear: (ghostface)
raybear ([personal profile] raybear) wrote2001-11-28 10:56 am

Where the fck you get heart from?

Let's review.

According to Webster's:

ghet·to
n. pl. ghet·tos or ghet·toes

1.A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
2.An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
3.Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: “trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes” (Diane Weathers).

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And now I go to a staff meeting. How terribly exciting. Though I do believe we're going to draw names for the holiday gift-giving.

[identity profile] stuey.livejournal.com 2001-11-28 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
that's so great. because last night, at the supermarket, yv said *this is the ghetto fry's.* and i was like, *huh?* and i remembered your post on it from way back. so i made a comment to her about how it's a little more okay for her to say that, and how it'd probably not be a good thing for my privileged white-girl ass to walk around calling things *ghetto.* yet - because she's, well, not white. and because she's not *privileged,* it's okay??? i mean, it wasn't a *ghetto* grocery store, aligning itself with any of the true definitions of ghetto. maybe i should set her straight, eh?

i'm not sure if i'm kidding or not. though i do agree with everything you had said on the issue, and am super-careful not to err in that way, i think the rules sometimes get a little confusing. hence this confusing comment. mah bad.