It all depends what you mean by the word coon. On an informal basis it is an abbreviation of Raccoon. It is an offensive term for a black person or a native of Australia. Or an offensive term for a person of mixed race in South Africa
Early Spanish settlers in the southwestern regions of New Spain grew tired of the howling of these wolf-like creatures and yelled at them to "shut up!" In Spanish, the term is "callate" pronounced kahyateh with the accent on the first syllable. The term was slurred by English-speaking settlers as coyote.
The racist term Coon comes from the ancient Greek word "co-on" (meaning black person)
Answer this question… Demetrio, who asks if someone is O.K. after he or she has been subject to a racial slur
Cracker
Yes. You call Japanese people Japanese people.
No word, term, or phrase is in itself a racial slur, but any word can be used as such if it is intended to denigrate, belittle, or malign another based on ethnicity. Words are amoral, and have no life of their own. They require intent, context, and delivery to be anything other than an abstract representation of concrete things and ideas.So, "border-jumper" can be a racial slur if it is delivered in a context meant to castigate another based on his ethnic origin.The actual term "border-jumper" literally means a person or thing that leaps over a boundary, and has no negative connotation other than what it is put to.
No. The word "slur" is not bad unto itself. A slur is a bad thing.
Yes, racial slur is a crime in Washington D.C.
The racial slur cost him his job.He was so drunk that he began to slur his words.Be careful not to accidentally make a discriminative slur at the meeting today.
The conductor told the bass section that it was very important that they learned to slur their notes.
Answer this question… Demetrio, who asks if someone is O.K. after he or she has been subject to a racial slur
He was offended by the racial slur used against him.
U. S. Representative from Colorado Douglas Lamborn. And yes it is most certainly a racial slur.
A racial slur referring to Arab people
The term is an offensive racial slur.
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It can be, but generally it is accompanied by another slur to make it a racial slur or with a cuss word, for example :fu**ing cotton pickers, or "cotton pickin ni**er"... i am only using those examples so you can get a clear idea of what a racial slur involving the phrase "cotton picker" would be like, not to offend or degrade anyone.
Cracker
It is a slur of a common racial slur. Some young people use this spelling to get around word filters. They use it for both "bonding" uses of the word and to express racial hatred.