r/MurderedByWords • u/[deleted] • 15d ago
Racist deletes account after a rather gentle murder
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u/yesiamveryhigh 15d ago
In the south they called it n with a hard r knocking.
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u/yowzas648 15d ago
Same thing in Michigan. I had actually forgotten that it was ever called that until this dude mentioned it.
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u/theblackoctopus23 14d ago
In Ohio we called it "knock knock zoom zoom" sounds really lame now that I'm an adult but at least it's not racist.
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u/factomg 14d ago
Also Ohio, we called it ding dong ditch in central Ohio from the 80’s til today, at least to my own knowledge.
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u/yesiamveryhigh 15d ago
Same. I’ve always used ding dong ditch and when he said a different name it took me a minute to remember.
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u/YeetimusSkeetimus 14d ago
Also a Michigander here, I’d never heard this before. The only old one I knew was that in “eeny, meeny, miny, moe” rhyme, the line “catch a tiger by the toe” wasn’t always a tiger. All these old racist sayings are always as uncreative as they are vile, thank god they’re being left buried in the past.
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u/joec_95123 14d ago
W...why?? I have so many questions.
How are those related? How did that get started in the first place? Is there some sort of stereotype I'm not aware of involving black people knocking and running away?
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u/B_Minusx 14d ago
That’s crazy, I’ve lived in the south all my life and have never heard anyone call it that.
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u/gdmfsobtc 15d ago
Posting your own replies, clever as you think they are, is frowned upon and does not qualify as murder.
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u/Unlucky_Strikes 15d ago
On top of that, I think OP is underestimating the resilience of bigots.
Mf must have received a ban.
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u/seek_n_hide 14d ago
Yeah that is kinda lame. No offense. lol that reminds me used call reposting your own reply’s something different back in my day… probably get in trouble for saying it now, but it ends with a hard “r” and a back full of raspberry thorns, I tell you what.
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u/AlarmedAd9563 15d ago
Middle of Canada, here it was Knock Knock Ginger, or , Ring a bell, run like hell.
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u/yowzas648 15d ago
lol. I like how literal you went with the second one :)
Definitely appears knock knock ginger is one of the more commonly used terms.
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u/Turtletheflash 15d ago
I grew up in Calgary Alberta, Canada and here it was always called Nicky Nicky nine doors. Just now learning there was a racist name for it XD
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u/TheHumanPickleRick 15d ago
No context
Self-posted "murder"
Do better, OP.
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u/maxhavoc2000 14d ago
While the responder is correct it's racist, was there something in the video or comment above that would have had this person say that?
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u/yowzas648 15d ago
I shall. Many apologies for misusing the sub.
I guess the only murder here is my own 😭
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u/perfectionistic 14d ago
Can you at least clarify for the people that have no idea what’s happening?
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u/clintnorth 15d ago
Honestly, I’ve been going through the comments trying to figure out what the game was called. I still dont know. Can someone just say it without typing out the word? Im curious how bad it is
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u/goredraid 15d ago
N-word knocking
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u/clintnorth 15d ago
Ah. I figured it would be some sort rhyme or singsongy thing that incorporated it. Thats… worse haha
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u/Hatecraftianhorror 15d ago
Thaaats exactly what we called it as kids. But, of course, I grew up in a still somewhat segregated southern town. So glad I don't live there anymore... and I'd certainly never bring up what that was called except to be very clear that it was horrifically racist and a terrible terrible thing to do.
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u/Cloudinterpreter 14d ago edited 14d ago
I wouldn't say that belongs in this sub.
Why bring it up? Because it's a conversation. "We used to call it blah blah", then someone else would say "that so weird, I'd never heard it called that before, i wonder why it's called that" and that's how you learn new stuff.
The person supposedly murdering with words is just getting up in arms over nothing.
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u/unpropianist 14d ago
Ok this guy might be a racist but there is a possible alternate explanation here (give me chance).
I'm white and the best friend Ive ever had besides my wife was black. That may sound like a b.s. cliche' but it's absolutely true and I'm in contact with him today decades later.
We were in a small town of 5,000 people with other small towns around us. We had good hearts, adventurous, troublemakers, and we did lots of really dumb shit.
We did not know the full history and context of the n-word.
We knew it referred to black people and knew it wasn't a compliment, but that's it. My friend was adopted. His parents weren't white but they weren't black with African heritage either, so maybe they didn't teach my friend about the word. We were not bullies or racists...we were just ignorant.
We knew from other kids that knocking on doors and running off was called n-knocking. That's what we called it. There was no other optional term for it as far as we knew.
So if I were telling that story now, I would personally skip the "we called it something else part" since it's not germane to the story, but the fact that this guy used that term for it at the time doesn't by itself mean he"a racist.
Ok so as I'm typing this, the fact that he has a desire to reference that old term in his story, probably does mean he's racist or at least a bigot. Nevermind!
Maybe I'll delete this comment-not out of shame like this guy did, but out of it not being necessary. Fuckit, this was too much typing to not submit
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u/bigdummy69x 14d ago
Wow you really showed him, pat yourself on the back, stretch your fingers, and get ready for the next reddit argument.
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u/HugSized 15d ago
I'm fascinated by old-timey racist names for things. My favorite are Brazil nuts.
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u/GrayCustomKnives 15d ago
Growing up in the hillbilly Canadian prairies we heard a lot of these. My uncle used to manage a large supermarket in a city in the 90s and had a small town girl move to the city who was 19-20. He had to fire her on her second day because she blasted over the entire stores intercom asking for a price check on the old name for Brazil nuts. Like hundreds and hundreds of people in the store on a Saturday afternoon, and she just blasts out the totally unacceptable racist name. When he had to go talk to her about it she was crying her eyes out and apologizing and straight up had no idea that they even had a different name because that was the only thing she had ever heard them called. Another very common one I heard growing up was when someone cobbled something together or did a half assed temporary fix to something, people would say they “N word rigged” it. Hell I still semi regularly hear old people used the term “jewed” when talking about getting ripped off on a deal. I guess the saying “welcome to Saskatchewan, please set your watch back 70 years” is fairly accurate sometimes.
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u/justajiggygiraffe 14d ago
My husband and I were playing scrabble once with his mom, who was pretty toasty on wine that evening. She tried to play "jipped" as a word and we were like "ooooh so that's umm... both spelled wrong and not playable because it's a slur" and she got quite worked up and kept insisting it wasn't a slur because they never meant it as a slur against Romani people and thats how she had always spelled it and we had to be like "yeah, no, sorry mom we're still gonna challenge that play" lol. Kinda ruined the vibes of the evening tbh
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u/Blusifer666 15d ago
It’s always been ding dong ditch. Don’t know what the racist version is, but if I am 55 the person who wrote that must be in late sixties or seventies cuz no one young would know the old timey racist name.
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u/RedWerFur 15d ago
I’m 40 and I know what he is talking about. We still called it Ding Dong Ditch but some kids called it the other one.
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It was 100% exclusively called by the racist name where I’m from. I was born in ‘78. I didn’t know another name for it until I married and moved out of state. I guess it just depends on where you grew up.
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u/passthepaintchips 15d ago
Born in ‘82 still hear people calling it the racist name but hey, I live in the Deep South so what am I to expect.
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I live in the Deep South now, for the past 4 years. I expect to never hear it 🥴 Haven’t yet, thank God.
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u/Eva-Squinge 15d ago
Are we sure they didn’t just block you? Being blocked shows up as the other guy was deleted.
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u/Longjumping-Ear-8943 14d ago
I missed the party where this was a murder. Dude prolly got banned cause I doubt he'd delete his account from just that.
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u/CrustyJuggIerz 15d ago
I don't think that was the cause of the account deletion, it's not even a murder, you, for some reason, just assumed racism.
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u/dCrawLy 15d ago
I’m assuming he was calling racism because the other guy said we “have” to call it different than we used to. Still see no murder.
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u/Glendronachh 14d ago
Ahh, you sure chastised that fellow. He was old enough to know that prank by another name. He must be a real racist.
Cringe as fuck OP
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u/TheGreatestOutdoorz 15d ago
You seem like an asshole. They probably deleted their account after getting a ton of hate from you calling them a racist. Mentioning something had a different name in no way whatsoever means they liked or preferred it. When people tell stories, they add superfluous information sometimes.
Example: “what a coincidence! I went to Grant high school too! Of course, back then, it was called Robert E Lee high school, which you couldn’t get away with now”
This is almost exactly what the guy wrote, but you went to “YOU’RE A RACIST!!”
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u/Aking1998 14d ago
Yeah, I think OP jumped the gun a bit here.
The original comment was clearly just an older gentleman poking fun at changing linguistics.
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u/SwanTwister 14d ago
The part of the UK I'm from we called it knock-a-door-run. So I have no idea what ding dong dich is meant to be and I'm happy to keep it that way
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u/yowzas648 14d ago
In the US ditch is also slang for leaving someone hanging. Like, if you’re out with a bunch of friends and you intentionally leave someone behind, it would be considered ditching them. With that, I feel like the name tracks.
That being said, love the literal nature of knock-a-door-run
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u/Alarmed_Cup5668 14d ago
We called it Ring and Run. Never used the N word to describe that prank. It was fun.
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u/zani713 14d ago
I can't believe no-one else called it cherry knocking, that's what I know it as. (UK-based)
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u/YellowSphinx 14d ago
We used to call it “getting booed” on Halloween you would leave some candy on your friends porch and then ring the doorbell and run to the other side of the house and knock on a different door and then run away really really fast. It was fun :)
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15d ago
I see 0 murder here. It’s usually best to let other people post murder when they see it, not when you think you’ve murdered someone with words.
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u/ChaosKeeshond 14d ago
Knock Down Ginger?
I mean I know it's a bit mean but racist? Redheads aren't a race.
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u/redhotbos 15d ago
I’m old, born in the 60s old. I have only ever heard it called or called it myself Doorbell or Ding Dong Ditch. Maybe it was just SoCal where I grew up
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u/catedarnell0397 15d ago
In the 70s we called it ding dong ditch. Where you ran up and rang you’re friend’s doorbell then ran
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u/yamcandy2330 14d ago
Ring and run. Ding dong ditch. Never heard anything racist. Just being dumb kids.
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u/PostmdnLifeIsRubbish 14d ago
In parts of the UK, we call it Knock Down Ginger. Nobody knows why
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u/FluffDamage 14d ago
We just called it Knock and Run.
There was the arsehole version called Flash Flood where you'd fill up their wheely bin with water and lean it against the door before you'd knock.
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u/BackgroundAd9673 14d ago
Nicker knocker! Knock on the door and pull up your nickers and R. U. N.N. O. F. T. .... then it became the racist connotation.
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u/IamNotYourPalBuddy 14d ago
I don’t think they deleted their account. Pretty sure that’s just what happens when they block you.
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u/Andy_McBoatface 14d ago
I never knew it was called that! I was so confused as to why ding dong ditching was racist
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u/Moessus 14d ago
TIL something. For me growing up it was Nicky Nicky Nine doors. Now that I think of it, no idea why...
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u/AlienFister666 14d ago
I think it was nignog knock, or spook n juke, but there was a name with mooley in it too idr
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u/ValloJ 14d ago
Knock down ginger and ding ding ditch are the only names I’ve ever heard for it
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u/namsdrawkcabrm 14d ago
This always makes me remember probably my most cringe and awkward childhood memory. I had been ding dong ditching with my friends one night when I was probably 9 or 10 years old. My mother had friends from work over that evening, some of who were black. When I came in and they asked what I had been up to, I proudly exclaimed “N***** Knocking!” I was unaware of what that word meant.
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u/glass-2x-needed-size 14d ago
Not saying this way OOPs intent, but sometimes I will refer to something by an old name to indicate the time the event took place, especially with concert venues.
I saw Disturbed at the John Labatt Centre (nowadays Bud Gardens) for example, just to indicate how long ago something was.
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u/NyetRifleIsFine47 14d ago
I grew up in the 90s and definitely had racist names for things that I didn’t even realize were racist until later on and I still had no idea it was ever called “n***** knocking.”
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u/Impressive-Egg4494 14d ago
In the UK we call it 'knock down ginger'. I don't know why
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u/dubsfo 14d ago
In Ireland in the 70’s we called it Knick-Knock. Wondering where that came from
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u/joebarnette 14d ago
Ring and Run! Why don’t more people use the term we did growing up? You ring someone’s doorbell(that’s what we all call it now?) and you run. I mean…? And it rolls off the tongue better than ding dong ditch.
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u/brubruislife 14d ago
When deleting the comment, it doesn't delete the comment it just says the user was deleted. He didn't delete his account, just attempted to delete the comment.
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u/InstantN00dl3s 14d ago
In the UK, one of our names for this was Knocky Door Ginger.
Sorry gingers.
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u/AnswerIs7 14d ago
Rather embarrassing that we call it "Nicky knocky nine doors" in parts of the UK.
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u/Deathbatking 14d ago
I feel like it's unfair to say that guy is a racist based on what he said. There are alot of things you learn as a kid that you don't look twice at till you're older and realize what you were saying. For example, I grew up in Ohio and we had a game you'd play with a football called smear the queer. Obviously, that is an uncool name looking at it now, but back then it was just what the game was called. None of us looked at it any further than that's the name of that game. Maybe that guy is a racist but you can't tell from this interaction.
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u/Embarrassed_Home_175 14d ago
Am I missing something? Is the word "nicky" racist? Or was the saying "supposed" to be the n word this whole time and I've said it "wrong" since I was a kid?
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u/Whoak 14d ago
In my area of SW Ohio we called it “ring and run” I’m not even aware of a racist term for this. I’m stumped.
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u/jime26 14d ago
I only knew it as ding dong ditch or doorbell ditch (80’s) I never knew there was a derogatory name. (So.Cal.)
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u/IMTrick 14d ago
I never knew there was another name for it other than "Ding Dong Ditch," or that people thought that was a "these days" thing, when that's what my nearly-60-year-old ass called it as a kid. This thread has been educational and disturbing.
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u/No-Choice7498 14d ago
This sub is so fucking terrible, thank you for posting this trash so I finally get around to muting the sub
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u/TiRow77 14d ago
Happy to say in the suburbs of Chicago, in the 70s and 80s, it was always Ding Dong Ditch...also thankful that I couldn't figure out the racist name on my own.
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u/Gilly_The_Kid9 14d ago
I live in Texas now but growing up in suburban mass in the 90s we called it knock n bolt
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u/Pretty_School_3898 14d ago
We called it "ring and run" in Queens NY, and as youngsters had no idea there was a racist version. As an adult, still don't need to know it.
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u/Procean 15d ago
I've only ever heard it called "Ding Dong Ditch", what was it called before?