Good article about the Nword

a civic norm that has held America together since World War II. It's an unspoken agreement that we would never return to the kind of country we used to be.
That agreement revolved around this simple rule:
A White person would never be able to publicly use the n-word again and not pay a price.
 
But once we allow a White public figure to repeatedly use the foulest racial epithet in the English language without experiencing any form of punishment, we become a different country.
We accept the mainstreaming of a form of political violence that's as dangerous as the January 6 attack.
 
The n-word became forbidden in the US public sphere around the mid-20th century when a consensus emerged that "public racism" was sabotaging democracy, some academics say. But in the decades before that, White entertainers and politicians talked like Rogan all the time.
World War II helped change that. The war against Nazism and revelations about the Holocaust raised awareness of racism, while America's new role as a leader of the "free world" caused White elites to see racism as the nation's Achilles heel, wrote Robert L. Fleegler, a history professor at the University of Mississippi, in a paper titled, "Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938-1947."
 
evince said:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/us/joe-rogan-n-word-blake-cec/index.html


What it meant

And what it now means

And how that reflects on this nation
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Neal Lester, an Arizona State University English professor who has taught a course on the n-word, noted it has been described as "the most toxic in the English language," a term "almost magical in its negative power," and a slur that "occupies a place in the soul where logic and reason never go."
"The word is inextricably linked with violence and brutality on Black psyches and derogatory aspersions cast on Black bodies," he said in an interview. "No degree of appropriating can rid it of that blood-soaked history."
 
Bilbo, a US Senator from Mississippi, felt free enough to tell White supporters during an election campaign in 1946 that "I call on every red-blooded White man to use any means to keep the n***ers away from the polls."
US Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi ran for reelection in 1946 on a White supremacy platform.
US Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi ran for reelection in 1946 on a White supremacy platform.
Bilbo won the Democratic primary and faced no opposition in the general election, but his Senate colleagues barred him from taking his seat in the chamber because of his open racism.
 
“When unwritten rules are violated over and over, we become overwhelmed -- and then desensitized," Levitsky wrote. "We grow accustomed to what we previously thought to be scandalous."
Something else happens that's even more deadly. When people in positions of power use dehumanizing language to describe other groups, atrocities often follow.
This is not ancient history: Consider what happened less than 30 years ago in Rwanda when some 800,000 civilians were slaughtered in a three-month period in 1994. Hutu extremists targeted both the Tutsi minority, who were a majority of those killed, as well as moderate Hutus.
 
evince said:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/us/joe-rogan-n-word-blake-cec/index.html


What it meant

And what it now means

And how that reflects on this nation
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"To a great extent, the norms in Rwanda shifted so rapidly because they did so from the top: Influential radio stations broadcast a powerful, persuasive and constantly repeating message urging listeners to join killing squads and organize roadblocks," Konnikova wrote.
​ Genocide is a worst-case scenario. But we don't have to look as far as Rwanda to see how quickly civic norms can change when people in power start lowering standards. Earlier this month the Republican National Committee drafted a resolution calling the deadly January 6 insurrection "legitimate political discourse."
 
We are poised to enter an era where a White person can use the n-word publicly and not only survive but thrive if they portray themselves as a victim of cancel culture. It's a world where hate speech and violence are rebranded as "legitimate political discourse," and "public racism" returns to ordinary life.
 
Well right wing slug brains


Come here and tell me why it’s sooooooo bad that you don’t get to scream the Nword from the tallest building
 
evince said:
But once we allow a White public figure to repeatedly use the foulest racial epithet in the English language without experiencing any form of punishment, we become a different country.
We accept the mainstreaming of a form of political violence that's as dangerous as the January 6 attack.
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You're right. JOE BIDEN MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY!!!
 
evince said:
“When unwritten rules are violated over and over, we become overwhelmed -- and then desensitized," Levitsky wrote. "We grow accustomed to what we previously thought to be scandalous."
Something else happens that's even more deadly. When people in positions of power use dehumanizing language to describe other groups, atrocities often follow.
This is not ancient history: Consider what happened less than 30 years ago in Rwanda when some 800,000 civilians were slaughtered in a three-month period in 1994. Hutu extremists targeted both the Tutsi minority, who were a majority of those killed, as well as moderate Hutus.
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interesting tidbit about the Rwandan horrors


They used Truck convoys to block roadways
 
evince said:
"To a great extent, the norms in Rwanda shifted so rapidly because they did so from the top: Influential radio stations broadcast a powerful, persuasive and constantly repeating message urging listeners to join killing squads and organize roadblocks," Konnikova wrote.
​ Genocide is a worst-case scenario. But we don't have to look as far as Rwanda to see how quickly civic norms can change when people in power start lowering standards. Earlier this month the Republican National Committee drafted a resolution calling the deadly January 6 insurrection "legitimate political discourse."
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What were the racists doing with trucks in Canada?
 
evince said:
That’s why you defend the likes of Rogan being able to use the Nword?
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I never defended Joe Rogan, idiot. But this guy did.


I said Joe Biden needs to resign. He's on video repeatedly using the n word. Why do you defend Joe Biden using the n word? And why haven't you figured out how to used the reply quote feature? Idiot.
 
Matt Dillon said:
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Same stupid shit as done in Rwanda


Spew hate and foment violence against one group so you can get another group to kill them


Get idiots to kill people out of manufactured hate

Get celebrities to spew that hate and reward them for it


Get idiots to form roadblocks to shut down commerce


Make people hate their own working system by undermining the system that is in fact working


So you can be the hero that saves them IF they just give you all the power


Then enslave them all when you secure power



“Mussolini got the trains to run on time”


Can you explain what that line meant historically?
 
Sirthinksalot said:
I never defended Joe Rogan, idiot. But this guy did.


I said Joe Biden needs to resign. He's on video repeatedly using the n word. Why do you defend Joe Biden using the n word? And why haven't you figured out how to used the reply quote feature? Idiot.
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And?
 
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