I Hate M*ndays

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A Massachusetts mayor has fired a police officer accused of directing a racial slur at Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford during a baseball game.

Leominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella says Officer John Perrault's comments and actions show he's unfit to serve on the police force.

Mazzarella's decision Thursday comes a day after Police Chief Robert Healey recommended that Mazzarella fire Perrault. Healey says the 38-year-old officer has used racial slurs at least two other times.

Perrault has been on paid leave since he called Crawford a "Monday" before a July 5 minor league game in Manchester, N.H.

The word is considered a racial slur when associated with the phrase, "I hate Mondays."

His attorney says Perrault wasn't using the word in a racial way and that the city is overreacting.

Can someone please explain to me how "Monday" is a racial slur in any context, and to which race it applies?

You know, this really puts Garfield into a new light.

Got me? I hope for the city's sake the other times he used a racial slur, it wasn't as confusing and innocuous. Otherwise, I see a big payday in the future.

I can see no reasons, for there are no reasons.

Oh God, It Gets Worse!

Monday
(US) A black person. Popularized by Russell Peters stand up at Def Jam

Fire him for having no taste.

Also, Carl Crawford has sucked as a Red Sock.

Terrible quality and NSFW, but it explains the Monday slur.

As a thirty-something while male, I'm a little ashamed at myself that there were racist words out there I didn't know.

This seems like something where it's not what you say, it's how you say it. If you 'ban' one word, people will use another.

This is a definite first for me.

I been around people who use it before. In my experience, people feel secure and more comfortable with a little known codeword and the hatefulness and spite just tends to ramps up.

Lucky Wilbury wrote:

I been around people who use it before. In my experience, people feel secure and more comfortable with a little known codeword and the hatefulness and spite just tends to ramps up.

"I don't like going downtown at night, it gets a little dark for my taste, if you catch my drift."

Bloo Driver wrote:

As a thirty-something while male, I'm a little ashamed at myself that there were racist words out there I didn't know.

This makes #2 this week for me, apparently it is common to substitute Canadians as a racist term as well. I found that out when a customer of mine from Iowa was complaining about going down town with me to dinner because Chicago is full of those Canadians, i was very confused as i didn't think we had many of our Pouitine eating brethren form the north in Chicago. Ohioans yes but Canadians no.

Then i figured out what he was talking about... I hate people

This doesn't even make sense to me. If you're going to go around lobbing little hate bombs at people, wouldn't you want to use a word that's going to do damage?

Lauren Bacall in My Fellow Americans[/url]]Don't say "freaking", Russ. If you have to use the "F" word, go for the gold.

DanyBoy wrote:

This doesn't even make sense to me. If you're going to go around lobbing little hate bombs at people, wouldn't you want to use a word that's going to do damage?

Lauren Bacall in My Fellow Americans[/url]]Don't say "freaking", Russ. If you have to use the "F" word, go for the gold.

Because their racism is trumped only by their cowardice.

Wired wrote:
Bloo Driver wrote:

As a thirty-something while male, I'm a little ashamed at myself that there were racist words out there I didn't know.

This makes #2 this week for me, apparently it is common to substitute Canadians as a racist term as well. I found that out when a customer of mine from Iowa was complaining about going down town with me to dinner because Chicago is full of those Canadians, i was very confused as i didn't think we had many of our Pouitine eating brethren form the north in Chicago. Ohioans yes but Canadians no.

Then i figured out what he was talking about... I hate people

But I'm a Canadian! Does this mean I've actually been a black American this entire time?

The internet keeps teaching me new stuff every day. Just not everything all that useful or that I want to know about lol.

Wired wrote:
Bloo Driver wrote:

As a thirty-something while male, I'm a little ashamed at myself that there were racist words out there I didn't know.

This makes #2 this week for me, apparently it is common to substitute Canadians as a racist term as well. I found that out when a customer of mine from Iowa was complaining about going down town with me to dinner because Chicago is full of those Canadians, i was very confused as i didn't think we had many of our Pouitine eating brethren form the north in Chicago. Ohioans yes but Canadians no.

Then i figured out what he was talking about... I hate people

Apparently the "canadian" thing is fairly common among wait staff at various restaurants, I heard it in Delaware quite a few times. It's so you can complain about how black people don't tip without saying black people don't tip. Really nice.

People are such [em]assholes[/em].

(P.S. Asshole is code for asshole.)

I'm just beyond words for the whole of this thread...

Well, if you want to look on the bright side, you can take this as a sign that as a society, we've sufficiently demonized this sort of ignorance to such a degree that people go to these lengths to hide said ignorance out of fear of shame. And I am willing to call that, ultimately, a sort of progress.

Well, i'm black and that's news to me.

I hadn't heard of using either "Mondays" or "Canadians" as a racial slur. I can deal with "Canadians", as the literal interpretation in a lot of ignorant phrases almost makes it funny. It'd be hard for me not to laugh. "Mondays" co-opts an often used topic of conversation along with common innocent phrases used in small talk though. That sucks.

Prederick wrote:

Well, i'm black and that's news to me.

Time to take that word back.

I thought the article was just misspelling monkey.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Well, if you want to look on the bright side, you can take this as a sign that as a society, we've sufficiently demonized this sort of ignorance to such a degree that people go to these lengths to hide said ignorance out of fear of shame. And I am willing to call that, ultimately, a sort of progress.

Yup. It is obviously impossible to make people not be racist/prejudice/etc. but at least we can work to make it so they don't feel they can say it outright.

Prederick wrote:

Well, i'm black and that's news to me.

What, you didn't get the memo at the last meeting?

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Prederick wrote:

Well, i'm black and that's news to me.

What, you didn't get the memo at the last meeting?

You mean the meeting we have on Mondays?

The meeting notice said 'Canadians only', can you blame Prederick for not showing up?

When I see this, I cannot get out of my head the scene in Porky's where the bigot kid is trying to haze the Jewish kid by talking about "kites." Some people are too dumb to hate, methinks.

absurddoctor wrote:

The meeting notice said 'Canadians only', can you blame Prederick for not showing up?

It wouldn't have mattered anyway, the only people there were a bunch of confused actual Canadians all apologizing to each other for showing up to the wrong meeting.

KingGorilla wrote:

When I see this, I cannot get out of my head the scene in Porky's where the bigot kid is trying to haze the Jewish kid by talking about "kites." Some people are too dumb to hate, methinks.

Seriously? The only things I remember from Porky's is the shower scene and boobies.

Of course it came out in....(google ... Google) 1982, which made me (maths...maths) 11 at the time, so I might have been easily distracted.

1982? Oh God am I getting old.

I never knew Garfield was such a racist.