Good article about the Nword

This is all a bunch of nonsense,...YET AGAIN. There are no banned words in a free and open society. NONE. Anyone can say anything they want to excluding things like yelling fire in a movie theater and other statements of the like. And yes,...that includes the word Nigger. Having said all that, just because there are no banned words doesnt mean you should use them either. Some words carry a deep meaning and are deeply insulting. But to think you can control what the general public says is beyond laughable. People will say whatever they want to and jam it right back up your ass as they tell you to get fucked. :laugh: My political origins are more in the Ron Paul vein. Like he used to say about many of the drug laws......."I dont abstain from using Heroin or other hard drugs because there are laws against it,.... I dont use them because I am not a total idiot" . Kind of the same thing.
 
I was once called a "white boy" in a demeaning way back in school. A lot of this stuff is all about how things are meant to be taken. He meant it in a demeaning way. So I threw him down in the place where you put your feet in the gym bleachers , held him down by putting my knee on his chest and then proceeded to bust his head open. Broke his nose, fucked him up good. He had every right to say any word he wanted to as an American citizen,....and I had every right to be insulted and beat the hell out of him. Thats how things get done. How things get handled. Never called me that anymore,...:laugh: in fact he never said ANYTHING to me anymore. :cool:
 
BartenderElite said:
Agreed on all of that. I don't really get how this happened, but neither context nor intent is considered anymore. All you have to do is repeat the word, and you're generally branded a racist.

I also think it highlights and perpetuates divisions when certain people can use a word, and certain people can't. Not that I want to be able to say the word - it's an ugly word, and I wish it just didn't exist. But it does, and we give it too much power.
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I understand the history of why black people 'recaptured' the word and started using it among themselves and thus why its ok for them to use it and not others. Anecdotal but there were six of us hanging out Friday night, me (i'm white) and five black guys. One of them I hadn't seen in awhile and when he gave me a pound he said 'Cawacko - what's up my n*gi, it's been a minute!" The n*word was sprinkled freely throughout conversation all night and not once used by me. There was zero chance I was using it even if in that situation I would have been given a pass.

However I do agree with your point about a certain level of fragility towards the word. People claiming to be traumatized because the word was used in an historic book among many other examples. Some will say "you're white so it's not your place to tell me when I can or can't be offended". But I listen to black thinkers who argue at a certain level there is an act involved when people respond that way (claiming to be traumatized). In those contexts you are spot on about giving it too much power.
 
Stone said:
I was once called a "white boy" in a demeaning way back in school. A lot of this stuff is all about how things are meant to be taken. He meant it in a demeaning way. So I threw him down in the place where you put your feet in the gym bleachers , held him down by putting my knee on his chest and then proceeded to bust his head open. Broke his nose, fucked him up good. He had every right to say any word he wanted to as an American citizen,....and I had every right to be insulted and beat the hell out of him. Thats how things get done. How things get handled. Never called me that anymore,... in fact he never said ANYTHING to me anymore.
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:rolleyes:

:coolstorybro:
 
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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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.
 
So you flood this thread with hate instead of discussing the actual history of how racism is the tool of dictators


You call any black person who complaints of bad treatment liars and ignore the death of children


Trayvon tried to defend himself that way


And the asshole had a gun and killed him
 
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