Vote: Is Calling Someone "Fredo" In a Forum Post An Ethic Slur?

[Martin Weidmann]

There is. It was held by Trump hater at a Bernie Sanders rally in Utah. Why do research when you can go right into hate mode?

https://reason.com/2020/04/20/dont-get-fooled-by-fake-photos-of-coronavirus-lockdown-protests/

Indeed, why not do a bit of research instead of instantly blaming the left.

Scroll down the page at the link you have provided and you'll see a twitter posting explaining exactly what happened.

It was indeed a Bernie Sanders rally where Trump supporters showed up with their flags to counter protest.

They guy holding the Nazi flag is identified as Robert Sterkeson, who is a known white supremacist.

What was it that you were saying about a Trump hater?

[Royell Storing]

The jerk will never accept anything negative about Trump and his ilk, even when it is staring him in the face.

It's all the democrats faulty anyway, don't you know..... 

   So much HATE. Extremely Ugly!

[Rick Plant]

So much HATE. Extremely Ugly!

Yes, that's why white supremacists and Donald Trump will be defeated in a landslide in November so we can end this hate. White supremacy has no business leading in America.

Everybody knows white supremacists, the KKK, Nazi sympathizers, and far right wing extremist hate groups is a big chunk of Trump's base. That's where the "Make America Great Again" slogan comes from. The Klan used that in the 1920's when they tried to make a comeback. That slogan refers to an "all white" society which they want to return. Anytime Donald Trump starts losing support, he does something involving race to get his hate based fired up and still sticking with him. That's why he announced his belated "Immigration ban" which is only for show but appeals to his base believing he's hard on foreigners. A day late and a dollar short for Donald Trump. Should have done this in January instead of waiting until April. That's like the guy who buys an security system after the burglars clean everything out of his house.

Trump fans in this thread want to pretend that white supremacists and the KKK are not rabid supporters of Donald Trump. That's pathetic. White Supremacists and the KKK are very vocal about supporting Donald Trump. And feeling its ok to use ethic slurs like "Fredo" and "Tonto" to address a person of ethnicity falls right along those lines. Don't deny the main supporters of Trump's base. Embrace them, those are your guys and his voters and Trump appeals to them with his racism each day to keep them in his cult.                   

[Royell Storing]

    Why Not "hold your water" until the Vote has concluded?  Then You can retreat to a Safe Space.

[Jack Trojan]

Why? Because he says so? His is decidedly a minority opinion.

Poll a majority of Italians did you? Medal of Freedom Recipient (cough, cough) Rush Limbaugh thought it was an Ethnic Slur.

No, but they're much more offensive than Fredo.

So you admit it was also an ethnic slur, just not the worst one. Are the others you mentioned equally the worst?
 

People who hate hypocrisy?

Doesn't that mean that CNN does not think it was a racial slur? Cuomo isn't CNN. The hypocrisy must be on the Right then. Again who cares?

Like porn, I know it when I see it.

Then I'd hate to see what kind of porn does it for you.

Because it's a euphemism for "stupid."

Then it was just a coincidence that Fredo was a stupid "Italian"? That's stupid.

Liberals aren't???

You're a bit obsessed with all this left/right thing, aren't you? I'm not a Democrat. I just know what Ethnic Slur means and I am not a racist like Rush Limbaugh.

It does. "Hate" speech is free speech. Why do you think that "God Hates Fags" protesters haven't been arrested?

Fill your boots.
 

True, fear of reprisal is why most people refrain from slurs.

"Ethnic" slurs you mean?

Right. They're just racist.

Now I know you don't know what Ethnic Slur means. What race is a redneck? And don't say the "white" race.

[John Iacoletti]

Cuomo — the younger brother of Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — claims that people use the name Fredo “as an Italian aspersion,” declaring, “It’s like the ‘N word’ for us.”

Nope, that's wop, dago or guinea.

Sean, do you have any Italian heritage?

If not, why should a person not in the group being slurred get to decide what constitutes a slur?

[Sean Kneringer]

Sean, do you have any Italian heritage?

No.

If not, why should a person not in the group being slurred get to decide what constitutes a slur?

There are Italians all over Twitter saying it's not a slur, so I'll do what you suggest and take their word for it. You guys really have trouble distinguishing slurs from insults.

[Royell Storing]

   Nowhere above does it say in order to cast a Vote on this issue, the voter MUST be Italian. Likewise, having an opinion on the issue. You Snowflakes are Whacked outta your minds.