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Two school administrators in private conversation were discussing the foul language of the students, including the n-word. They were placed on leave. Full story:
I thought the n-word was copyrighted by white supremacists racists hundreds of years ago as a derogatory term for Negro, i.e. black, people. Shouldn't it be their word? This woman thinks that only black people should be allowed to refer to other black people as derogatory terms. Does this apply to other derogatory terms as well? Should whites be the only ones who can call other whites "h-o-n-k-y" or "cracker"?
Should white supremacists and racists be the only ones allowed to use the terms "white supremacist" and "racist"?
Which N word you are talking about. The N word with an "A" at the end verses the suffix "ER" even though both shouldn't be used have two different meanings?
I am black, I grew up in Compton, and I have never heard anyone black call each other the "N" word ending with "ER." The "N" word ending with "ER" has been traditionally a word used and owned by prejudiced white people or any racist person not black.
Guess who can make cancer jokes? People with cancer. Everyone else most folks look at them and are like "oh no. no don't say things like that". etc etc.
If I'm discussing or quoting something 2nd hand - why would I not say "the n-word" or "the n-bomb" vs actually using the word? ESPECIALLY in a professional setting.
That is an excellent question! I am thinking that I, myself, would not use the word, and would state it as you have in your question.
I once worked in a military dining facility in the kitchen as a civilian cook with about 20 black military cooks. There were a few that used the word now and then, and one day I said "OK, you can say that word, but I can't?", and one of them laughed and said "That's right." We often joked aobut stereotypes of both blacks and whites, sometimes Asians as the dishwashers were Asians and they joined in what was actually "fun" for us, but this was among friends, and people without prejudices.
The schools have gone bat-poop crazy. I am so glad I don't have children in school anymore. I am totally convinced that those most touchy about such a thing are racists, despite what race they are. I mean, if you know what racism looks like, you never mistake it for anything else.
"Variety is the spice of life." 100% true. Also, "context" makes ALL the difference!
Depends on who and where it’s coming from. Why is this so hard to understand?
What's hard to understand is why it 'depends' on anything. Want to use it among yourselves, fine. Put it out over the airwaves, don't be surprised if others use it.
Well, remember that for a great deal of time "colored people" was an accepted and even preferred term by black people, which is why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) exists. There was also a Christian denomination called "Colored Methodist Episcopal Church" which is not the same organization as the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Many ADOS people called themselves "colored" all the way through the War Generation. It was in general use by black people for ourselves into the 1960s.
The primary reason it's become offensive is because the change to "black" (and then Afro-American, followed by African-America) was made fifty years ago in the Boomer generation.
Everyone should be on board by now, everyone knows better, nobody younger than a War Genner has been raised hearing "colored people" in general public use, so anyone still using "colored people" is not out of ignorance or by accident, but with the intention to be slyly offensive.
So the NAACP is intending to be slyly offensive since they have not 'updated'?
Guess who can make cancer jokes? People with cancer. Everyone else most folks look at them and are like "oh no. no don't say things like that". etc etc.
Good Will Smith supporter. Shame he is banned from the Oscars.
What's hard to understand is why it 'depends' on anything. Want to use it among yourselves, fine. Put it out over the airwaves, don't be surprised if others use it.
Others can use it, they can go right ahead, will they? Nope! I wonder why?
Words only have weight and meaning if you allow them to. If someone calls me a B, they may as well have called me a wash cloth. I don't allow it to mean anything to me.
and that’s fine and prudent, society however, feels otherwise.
Others can use it, they can go right ahead, will they? Nope! I wonder why?
If the answer is "Nope!", what are you complaining about.
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Also, "context" makes ALL the difference!
