re: Oxygen leaves room after Viggo Mortensen says N word

I called my wife a trans **** last night careful to not make the r sound.

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Rappers use it in a hateful context every day and people love it, but whitey uses it in a historical context and everyone loses their fricking minds.

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You're right about this situation - th context in this case is harmless. However, the argument that rappers use it all the time is so dumb.

Dumb in what way? My point was that context matters and people getting upset over a word being used in appropriate context is asinine.

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"Although my intention was to speak strongly against racism, I have no right to even imagine the hurt that is caused by hearing that word in any context, especially from a white man."

Give me a fricking break Vigo

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You are seriously confused if you think Vigo said or wrote that. His Agent has a room full of PR people who come up with this shite. The issue is that he did a live interview and tried to talk like an actual thinking human being. And people jumped all over him. This is why some celebs are seen as stand offish assholes. Those are the ones who know it is easier to just do their jobs and not say shite outside of that.

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It's a trashy word, used by trash people. It's never used in intelligent conversation or a compelling argument. We should recognize that it's just a good indicator of insecurity/stupidity/etc. and move on.

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Wrong.

There are legitimate people to use that word on. People of all shades and backgrounds.

Speaking of words that set people off, I always felt the faux outrage over the word cvnt was ridiculous.

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You are seriously confused if you think Vigo said or wrote that. His Agent has a room full of PR people who come up with this shite. The issue is that he did a live interview and tried to talk like an actual thinking human being. And people jumped all over him. This is why some celebs are seen as stand offish assholes. Those are the ones who know it is easier to just do their jobs and not say shite outside of that.

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He was talking about a movie he's in that's set in the 1960's when the word was more commonplace. The context of him saying the n-word was simply pointing out something from the film, but of course the PC-obsessed media doesn't care about context and seeks only to destroy. I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind actually having a problem with what he said, how he said it, when and where. Yet, he will be raked over the coals for it.

Negro is not even acceptable today I don't guess.

When I was a kid, "nig---" was common among both races. It got cleaned up to "nigra" in an effort to be more polite.

Then negro. Then black. Now African American.

I was talking to a black minister not long ago, a fine gent he is. I said something about "African Americans" and he immediately chastised me.

He said "to hell with 'African American'. Until we as a race start accepting we are all Americans we ain't going nowhere". What a statement from a black man and I agree.

He went on to say he'd preached to his congregation this same thing. Stop trying to be separate and be an American.

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Am I the only one that thought "Oxygen" referred to some black rapper when they first read the title?

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:Raises hand slowly:

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it is a power grab. blacks say n***** all the time but it is offensive if white say it? bull fricking shite.

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Don't care. Anyone can use the word anytime they want if they can deal with the consequences of using it. Complaining because someone can get away with it while others can't is equivalent to being a whiney child who only got 2 cookies when his brother got 3.