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re: Maddie Scharfenstein, Sage Ryan and double standard of the "N-word"
Posted on 1/4/23 at 11:55 am to EZE Tiger Fan
Posted on 1/4/23 at 11:55 am to EZE Tiger Fan
Call me a cracker I don't care, I don't let a word have power over me. Those that allow words to bother them are weak. However, this isn't really about a word. It is about being punished differently due to race. That is a problem.
Posted on 1/4/23 at 2:03 pm to TDTOM
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Call me a cracker I don't care, I don't let a word have power over me.
This for me, essentially. I think I mentioned earlier itt the last time I had this slur said towards me as a pejorative irl by a non-black person, my immediate reaction was to laugh. It just seemed so ridiculous to me that someone thought that would hold any weight with me, it made me giggle.
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Those that allow words to bother them are weak. However, this isn't really about a word.
Correct. The truth is, most black people are NOT actually bothered by the "N-word." Especially not the younger, social media savvy folk. Most of us have never even heard it uttered in demeaning context by a non-black person without immediate reprisal (in the case of the incident above I described, no less than FIVE other white guys grabbed their friend and damn near beat him up in front of me while I was laughing, apologizing to me the whole time). Some black people just use the word as a sword of Damocles to hold over sociopolitical opponents, or as a trump card to engage in wild "retaliatory" behavior.
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