re: Secretary at Ouachita Junior High text racial slur to wrong person concerning MLK Day.

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I suspect I could call you ugly or fat, and it wouldn't have an effect. That doesn't affect me either, I was called that almost everyday in grade school, I became immune to that along time ago.

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Quite true. I had to develop thick skin.

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On the other hand, if someone were to make a disparaging remark about your wife, or maybe a deceased relative, you would likely be upset. If someone said a disparaging remark about your kids, you would probably be tempted to want to retaliate physically.

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Very true, but that's more because it's in the context of the intention of causing mental anguish. And still you'd have to choose to allow yourself to be upset by it. It takes some mental fortitude to just shake that stuff off.

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The difference? They are still words. Words do have power, you do have the power to dictate how much power they have. But words do have power, imo.

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Fair point. I suppose it's more an annoyance to how the uttering of one word (used every day by some people) is now used as a justification for violence, for destroying their life and livelihood. It's the feigned outrage at it.

I'm not a proponent of going around saying it at all. But you can't say it's fine for some (and that it's okay for those people to use any racial slur they choose) but the Absolute worst thing for another.




We should stop pretending like it as so much power, but then having people use it so nonchalantly. It can't be both

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Words don't exist in a vacuum. They serve to convey intent, meaning, belief, desires, ideas, etc.

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It's about CONTEXT.

I present to you, Jabberwocky

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Language is incredibly complex, and to distill it down to "a jumble of sounds" isn't reality.

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I'm just a simple farmer. Wouldn't know a thing about the complexity of language.

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Words don't exist in a vacuum. They serve to convey intent, meaning, belief, desires, ideas, etc

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To the listener, which speaks volumes about the self control of the listener if theyre bothered by the way they interpret words.

If two white people say the N word with no minority in sight, is it an issue? .

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What did she do that was racist?

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You think there is some manner in which calling MLK day N- day can be argued not to be racist?

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It's about CONTEXT.

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Yes and the context in this example is clear, unless I'm coming in late and you're not talking about the words in OP anymore.

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I'm just a simple farmer. Wouldn't know a thing about the complexity of language.

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Possibly. But you know that words have meaning. And my comment was inconsiderate and rude. What you said wasn't stupid. You maybe didn't convey your idea well. My comment was to prove a point that words do have consequences, outside of being offensive. For example, multiple people are now arguing that words don't have meaning - why? Because I came off like an a-hole. They don't like me. I could say that it's Tuesday, and they would argue with me. Which was to prove my original point - words DO have meaning.

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To the listener, which speaks volumes about the self control of the listener if theyre bothered by the way they interpret words.

If two white people say the N word with no minority in sight, is it an issue? .

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I hope you stretched before these mental gymnastics your attempting to use to defend this lady


And yall never understand how H.R. and racial slurs in the workplace are handled.

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Probably because most of the outrage these days is selective and phony.

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Yet here we have a pretty clear cut example of the n-word being used in a hateful manner and some people are downplaying it.

Yeah it's the prime example of someone being actually racist and we still sit here and talk about why she can't openly say it bc others do