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That song 'Wop'

  • 15-07-2013 7:19am
    #1
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭


    Seems to be the new Harlem Shake but isn't that term kinda... Racist?


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  • #2
    Lelantos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,612 ✭✭✭Lelantos


    Kold wrote: »
    Seems to be the new Harlem Shake but isn't that term kinda... Racist?

    Depends on how you use it, if you're describing a dance, or a song called that word, then no.
    If you're talking to an Italian & use it too describe him, yes.


  • #3
    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭clairefontaine


    Yes if it's referring to Italians or Italian Americans.


  • #4
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    I'm sure the Italian's are well able to cope!! Wasn't there a 'genre' Do Wop music circa late 1950's?


  • #5
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Pandora2 wrote: »
    I'm sure the Italian's are well able to cope!! Wasn't there a 'genre' Do Wop music circa late 1950's?

    Mm bop da fa do wop? Hanson was all about white power.


  • #6
    Lucena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Lucena


    Wop, wop, oppan Gangnam Style!


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  • #7
    Pandora2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Pandora2


    Kold wrote: »
    Mm bop da fa do wop? Hanson was all about white power.

    See what you did there! ;)


  • #8
    Sir Humphrey Appleby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,465 ✭✭✭Sir Humphrey Appleby


    I dont know the song, but context is everything.
    Wop is a deregatory slang for Italians as I understand it, but is only offensive if used in that context.
    I mean is selling a bottle of whiskey called "Paddy" racist? Paddy after all is an oft used term used to deride the Irish such "Thick Paddy" "Paddy Ba&tards".

    In matters like this context is everything.


  • #9
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    I can't chink of any racist connotations to that name.


  • #10
    therecklessone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    I've come up with a great idea for a kids show, a little brown bunny rabbit who lives in the jungle...


  • #11
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    Kold wrote: »
    Seems to be the new Harlem Shake but isn't that term kinda... Racist?

    Turn around and wop, wop, wop

    Love it! Haven't quite mastered the dance yet! The only reason I know this song is because of Vines, it hasn't really taken off here yet...:-/


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  • #12
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Kold wrote: »
    Mm bop da fa do wop? Hanson was all about white power.

    Didn't Bono say that was one of the best songs ever written?


  • #13
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    Apparently most Italians arriving into Ellis Island in the 19th & early 20th centuary didn't have any reliable paperwork for the authorities to work with.

    Their files were marked WOP. WithOut Paperwork.

    Apparently..

    Their own fault really.


  • #14
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Stained Class wrote: »
    Apparently most Italians arriving into Ellis Island in the 19th & early 20th centuary didn't have any reliable paperwork for the authorities to work with.

    Their files were marked WOP. WithOut Paperwork.

    Apparently..

    Their own fault really.
    Must have been a fair few Irish wops as well then so. . .


  • #15
    Stained Class
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Stained Class


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Must have been a fair few Irish wops as well then so. . .

    Probably, but we were all called Paddy or Mick, so that was us sorted with a label.


  • #16
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    SamHall wrote: »
    Didn't Bono say that was one of the best songs ever written?
    The quick tempo helps him clap his hands faster than normal. The murdering basterd!


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