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chinyre
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5064 posts 		Thu Apr-03-14 02:55 PM

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""shiftless" is that big of a pejorative? "


          


English isn't my first language so pardon me and explain something to me.

I was talking to a friend yesterday and he basically clutched his pearls because I called someone shiftless (which they were). Mind you this guy calls people all kinds of hos and bitches. He basically said that calling someone shiftless is like damning that person. Meanwhile the dictionary states it is a lazy directionless person. Is this a southern/eastern thing?

  
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"shiftless" is that big of a pejorative? [View all] , chinyre, Thu Apr-03-14 02:55 PM
 
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what's your mother language?
Apr 03rd 2014
1
tagalog (Philippines)
Apr 03rd 2014
3
To (B)lack men it is
Apr 03rd 2014
2
and it has a 'special' meaning to us.
Apr 03rd 2014
4
      I see. I'm gonna need another term
Apr 03rd 2014
6
yeah because it's usually followed by 'negro'
Apr 03rd 2014
5
I hear ya. I want some lumpia too but
Apr 03rd 2014
8
      haha
Apr 03rd 2014
13
      Ugh, how lazy and shiftless of you
Apr 03rd 2014
16
           I'll be that
Apr 03rd 2014
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                Naw it ain't
Apr 03rd 2014
21
                     Both but more shanghai
Apr 03rd 2014
23
basically means that person isn't shit
Apr 03rd 2014
7
I like the word. it's so efficient
Apr 03rd 2014
9
it's often used to emasculate.
Apr 03rd 2014
10
I don't want to emasculated anybody..
Apr 03rd 2014
12
See also, uppity
Apr 03rd 2014
11
you stumbled into a loaded historical term
Apr 03rd 2014
14
Wow. Thank you I'm definitely going to read
Apr 03rd 2014
15
ip you tella that to pive men
Apr 03rd 2014
18
Terrible! lol
Apr 03rd 2014
19
What are they going to do to me?
Apr 03rd 2014
22
I'm a white dude in my 30s. I read that subject line and winced.
Apr 03rd 2014
20
What are you trying to say I'm crass
Apr 03rd 2014
24
I have a friend who had a baby with a non-black women. When she called
Sep 14th 2015
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