Use of the N-word

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Who may use the N-word?

  1. Its not acceptable for anyone to use the N-word

    10 vote(s)
    47.6%
  2. Only black people may use the N-word

    4 vote(s)
    19.0%
  3. Only black people and white people supporting black people may use the N-word

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. White people may only use the N-word toward other white people

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Its acceptable for anyone to use the N-word, unless its directed at a black person

    1 vote(s)
    4.8%
  6. The N-word isn't really the N-word if there's an A at the end instead of an ER

    1 vote(s)
    4.8%
  7. the guy in the video is loony

    5 vote(s)
    23.8%
  1. Injeun

    Injeun Well-Known Member

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    Kudos to the guy who made the video and gave the leftist brute no quarter intellectually than to prove himself nothing other than a violent bully. Well done! On the other hand, considering the brutes shaved head and cheap hokey sign, I'm wondering if he wasn't a skin head out to give blm a worse reputation than what they already deserve.
     
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    I noticed you didn't deny anything.
     
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    How damn many times do you want an honest answer? I can neither admit nor deny anything. It's your garden variety when did you stop beating your wife kind of question. Are you paying attention? So, have you stopped having casual sex with random guys? Some questions do not merit a response. The way yours are phrased are dishonest and cannot be honestly responded to with a yes or no - they require explanations.

    IF you answered the above question, it sure as Hell wouldn't be with a yes or a no. It would require an explanation. For example, you might say you are not heterosexual OR you might say you don't have casual sex. Now you have my answer. I am NOT a multiculturalist. Neither do I force my views down anyone's throat like you do. Furthermore, what the law says is what the say says. When the right wing has supported unconstitutional laws, I have called them out on it regardless of whether the legislation, Executive Order, etc. promises to benefit me. You don't seem to accept that. When the left lies and cheats; when they subvert the Constitution, I call them on it. I called you out on your racism. YOU have not denied that. So, don't get the idea that you hold any moral high ground on this issue because you don't.
     
  4. Imnotreallyhere

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    As I posted before, I think use of the term is vulgar. I try not to use it in conversation with anyone.

    Are you trying to deny there is one? If so, I assure you you are mistaken. Let's see: they like fried chicken and watermelon; are great dancers; are sexually promiscuous; are not too bright; are physically more capable than other races; need to be watched more carefully than other races due to their laissez faire approach to law and order; etc.; etc.; etc.

    Not saying that I believe those stereotypes, but I acknowledge they exist.
     
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    What is it about this one word that excites everybody? How is it different from other racial slurs, even different slurs about the same race? If anyone can explain it to me in rational terms I would be grateful.
     
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    You "try not to use it in conversation with anyone." But the use of "N****r is appropriate when describing a particular type of person (one who fits the stereotype)"
    All I asked was who are you using this kind of language around.
     
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    I would guess because that was a common way to refer to one's human property, when slavery was legal. Allusions that remind black Americans of the position they held in society, not thousands of years in the past but, up until 2 1/2 centuries ago, can still be humiliating & so be seen as hostile, taken as being antagonistic.

    But, of course, that treatment did not end with the outlawing of slavery. Barely more than half a century ago, a black person wasn't considered by American society worthy of sitting in the same part of a bus or drinking from the same water-fountain as a white person (or attending the same school, or living in the same neighborhood-- redlining was actively promoted by the U.S. government's influence over banking practices). And I'm sure you are aware that bigotry continues to this day.

    Honestly-- though I never really felt the compulsion to use that term-- in my mind, the alternate expression, "the 'n-' word," always had a juvenile ring to it. And I, myself, thought it seemed hypocritical that it should be acceptable for some to say it but not for others.

    But I swear it's as if my new appreciation of the impression that could be received through the use of that word has just dawned on me, out of nowhere. It's as though the expanding awareness of, & sensitivity to, the feelings of this subset of Americans, amongst the rest of our society, has just reached the critical mass required for it to be accessible to all, in accordance with the, "Hundredth- Monkey," theory (no hidden slur intended).
     
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    I have not considered the term to belong to a skin tone but to an attitude or behavior.
     
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    Civilised adults do not use the language of uncivilised cretines. The N-word is a slur and is both rude and useless.
     

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