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It's a WORD! You'd have to be a bored mental midget to be offended by a WORD!
No, it was something that people said during the times of segregation to identify a group of people. It isn't just a word. It identifies a period of history most of us are ashamed ever happened.
In all honesty, Black people really have no argument against White (or non-Black) people who use the "N" word if we (Black people) continue to use the word.
Black people, generally speaking, are the ONLY people who readily embrace such a negative word in reference to ourselves. I NEVER hear Hispanics or Asian calling themselves by the respective racial slurs attributed to their groups. Yet the ignorance of some Black folk abounds with the foolishness of calling each other "N" word.
It's a WORD! You'd have to be a bored mental midget to be offended by a WORD!
It's not just a word though. It's a mentality. In Mississippi in the 60's all I wanted to do was to ride in the back of the bus because it was cool, but my grand mother grabbed me before I could do that. Whites were to sit upfront. I can't tell you the abuse I saw including the N word. As a young child I didn't really understand what the abuse was all about. But I can tell you that the N word deeply affected them. You could see it in their faces.
This, pretty much.
I'm not very PC at all but it's been ingrained in me for 50-some years that this is a very bad word and while I know it's "just a word" I find it offensive.
And I live near a city that is majority black so I hear this word a lot in casual use.
Don't care; I still find it offensive and I cannot imagine using it.
I also have black friends who (hard to believe, I know) do NOT listen to rap or hiphop or music that tends to make liberal use of the n-word and the b-word (and damn I do wish this site was adult enough to allow use of actual words, even if offensive...!)
Words are just placeholders for ideas, and as we have seen, the context in which the word is used and the intent of the speaker are highly significant.
The PC crowd decided this one particular word was so inherently and inalterably offensive that it should forever be referred to only as the "n-word".
Really?
When did we all stop being adults such that we tolerate someone telling us one word is a naughty word and we are not allowed to say it ever?
Does the PC bunch think removing the word from common use will make the hate associated with it go away?
A handful of inbred goobers hanging out at the Waffle House restaurant in Buttcrack, GA can express the same disdain for a black person while addressing them as Sir or Ma'am as they can calling them a n****r.
Conversely, two black guys calling each other n****r simply means they are friends and comfortable with each other.
Context and intent are what gives words their meaning.
No, it was something that people said during the times of segregation to identify a group of people. It isn't just a word. It identifies a period of history most of us are ashamed ever happened.
That's just one example of the word's use.
Lots of people use this word for different purposes.
Some of them are good and some are not, but I don't reject any words because I know it is only the speaker's intent that matters.
To whom it may concern...Black people addressing other black people with that word doesn`t justify your racism in any way.I grew up in a neighborhood of eastern european immigrant folks and we often called each other hunky but we didn`t care to hear that from the kids on the other side of town.
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Originally Posted by gmagoo
Using them to defend your acceptance of racism?Pitiful.
Racism has nothing to do with it.
Stop screeching about racism and you'll find less of it.
"people are too politically correct in this country........give it a rest"
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"people are too politically correct in this country........give it a rest"
