Liza said "I am this close getting all ghetto on your ass" I am wondering if such phrasing is as un-politically correct as using the N-word. After all, using such a phrase as "ghetto your ass" implies that the ghetto is a bad place. That is a stereotype.

A ghetto is defined (using the definition at answers.com) as "A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background" Nothing in that definition says bad or dangerous or awful. You can live in a ghetto that could be a mighty fine place to live, it just happens to be what it is, a neighborhood populated by numbers of people of a certain economic and/or ethnic status.

Now when Liza uses "ghetto your ass" is it not like using the "N" word, giving it a negative stereotype? I don't even agree with the city council proposal to deal with excessive use of the "N" word because it is free speech, but that doesn't make it correct speech. Nor do I think it is correct speech for Liza to use the word "ghetto" to describe how she might get bad or do bad or nasty to a user that is annoying her. Ghettos do not have to be bad, are not all bad. We have to get away from such stereotypes. In my opinion.