re: Oxygen leaves room after Viggo Mortensen says N word

Liberals eating their own, again.

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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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Like I said, your point was fine, but the general argument that the word is fine because rappers say it is asinine. You weren't arguing that, but many do.

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Nobody? Rappers use that word all the time.

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And Quentin Tarantino

I always thought that the proudest moment in a black man or woman's life is when they gave their little speech about how it's alright for them to say it, but not alright for you (white folk) to say it.

That pride is the equivalent of a white man giving away his daughter on her wedding day.

I myself would never use that phrase, mostly because the good book tells us "if eating meat offends your brother, then eat meat no more", and secondly, nastiness usually follows when God's instructions aren't followed. That and the fact that I understand true condescension, for when a man of color refers to me as "white boy" my first primordial instincts are to kill some mother f'cker, and there isn't even 300 years of oppression reinforcing that nastiness.

However, WHAT THE PHUCK IS A BLACK MAN DOING CALLING ANYBODY A BOY? If you really want to examine the historical degradation of words and phrases and yet still think it's cute to call me "white boy" you aren't learning a f'cking thing from history.


Idle ramblings at lunchtime!

Oh, for frick's sake.

Oh I’ve said that word in my mind about 200 times after reading this

People are weak

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I mean hell we can't even use a word that has the letters n-I-g in without having someone try to ruin our lives.

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I say "night" all the time. But I get your point. Don't even think about saying "niggardly," a completely unrelated word.

What he should've done after he said it.

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There is nothing wrong with the way Vigo said it

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I think different people have different opinions about how offensive or inoffensive it is. Personally as a white guy, I don't think it's appropriate in any context but I was raised in a house where it was forbidden and my parents never used it. It sounds so ignorant, regardless of context or musical lyric.