Is This R Word Being Too Overused ?

[Bobbisox1]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/eamonn-holmes-threatens-sue-hes-18805407
So calling Meghan 'uppity ' constitutes a racist remark?
The Racist word is being too overused by people who who use it randomly
Yes, we have racists here in the UK but calling someone uppity is NOT a racist comment !

[Bobbisox1]

That's the way I interpreted it too anotheroldgit

[jno]

anyone can be, Ludwig, but how often do you actually see it used of anyone white?

[Bobbisox1]

I've heard it used Jno, okay maybe not in the media spotlight but I have heard it to people I know and they are white

[ludwig]

// anyone can be, Ludwig, but how often do you actually see it used of anyone white? //

Do you think he was being racist then jno?

[bainbrig]

ano the old git quips “I agree with Eamonn, she is "up her own backside" what's racist about that? We all have one.”

Yes ano, but we don’t all talk out of ours.

BB

[hereIam]

Never in all my life have I heard that this word is racist. I've even used it myself at times - quick call the hate police !!! What a load of old tripe, but so typical in this day and age.

[andy-hughes]

This is the apex of 'social media' - someone who doesn't understand what racism is, but likes to bandy the word around and seek attention - pointed at a TV personality who also likes attention.

Best thing to do is ignore both of them.

[hereIam]

Thanks Bobbi x

[naomi24]

‘Uppity’ racist? What absolute tripe!

[Bazile]

There goes his Knighthood

[Peter Pedant]

uppity or downity - makes you cross innit 3t?
sorry doesnt scan

Uppy or uppity ?
the correct answer to - "are you upper?" I learnt fifty yearn agoo
was - "no I did not attend Uppingham skool, I went to a six th form college."

yupper and yeah- I aint no uppity knee-jair .... foo as 3t so often says

[Peter Pedant]

// Yes ano, but we don’t all talk out of ours. //
//
then there is no place for you on AB

[Bobbisox1]

PP I really have difficulty following your train of thoughts

[JimF]

Uppity in isolation is not necessarily racist, unless it's being used in combination with another term which most definitely is racist, and I'm hoping that this post won't be removed as I'm merely using the following link to illustrate a point:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uppity%20nigger

Read Roots, or Uncle Tom's Cabin.

I can't even begin to imagine that that's how it was meant in this context, merely an example of how it could be misconstrued as pejorative.

[Bobbisox1]

Jim,basically people looking for an excuse to use the racist jibe, in other words, well overused

[JimF]

Completely agree!

[pixie374]

I don't think the problem is overuse, but more that is is often used wrongly. Disagreeing with or disliking someone of a different race is not racist- unless that is the entire reason. I am not suggesting Meghan is uppity, or that it is fair necessarily, but it is not racist.