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re: Using the n-word is the clearest race based double standard in America
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:40 pm to GaryMyMan
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:40 pm to GaryMyMan
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You're just a fricking idiot. Who can I blame for that?
And you sound so intelligent! Name calling is the obvious sign of a highly intelligent and articulate person.
Since im so stupid why not tell me where im wrong instead of being a typically simple minded fool and just calling me a name - even if you used a big bad word like fricking to drive it home Einstein?
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Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:40 pm to GCTiger11
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I'm literally just using common sense. I don't get how they can't see the glaring differences. But the get-off-my-lawners typically have a tendency to be a pain in the arse when it comes to things like this.
I guess it's more that they just don't like it than that they don't understand. I mean, we all understand how history and context infuses words and phrases with meaning. No one can simply turn blinders on for shits and giggles.
For the record, I'm more than comfortable repeating the word, but I don't use it in my everyday parlance (not even with a 'ah). And I certainly think it's inappropriate in most settings--especially public and professional settings.
Seems like an odd bone to pick, though. I'd think it would cause more consternation among educated and professional blacks than 30yo whites, but people's minds seem to be getting squirrely lately.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:41 pm to GCTiger11
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it really blows my mind how they think, "frick that n*gga" and "ni***rs are why my wifi is out
Well, one was a joke and the other was used in a derogatory manner.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:41 pm to RightWingTiger
please quit using this thread as a platform to spew all of this political bs
andrew harrison used "n*gga* like you and I would use "dude, man, guy, etc.". No racist intent behind it
the white girl in the picture used "n**ger* with a negative connotation and full racist intent
black people over decades has desensitized the word and embedded it into their vocabulary. Not all of them, but most. They don't use it with racist intent. White people usually cannot say it without receiving backlash. Yes, a double standard. But the world is not ending because you can't call your old lady your n**ga.
andrew harrison used "n*gga* like you and I would use "dude, man, guy, etc.". No racist intent behind it
the white girl in the picture used "n**ger* with a negative connotation and full racist intent
black people over decades has desensitized the word and embedded it into their vocabulary. Not all of them, but most. They don't use it with racist intent. White people usually cannot say it without receiving backlash. Yes, a double standard. But the world is not ending because you can't call your old lady your n**ga.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:44 pm to RightWingTiger
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Name calling is the obvious sign of a highly intelligent and articulate person.
If I were black I bet you'd have a name you'd like to call me...
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:44 pm to Cockopotamus
I try to use the N-word as much as possible to try to make it more socially acceptable.
My wife and the teachers at my children's school don't like it when I use it.
My wife and the teachers at my children's school don't like it when I use it.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:46 pm to noonan
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Well, one was a joke and the other was used in a derogatory manner.
yep. And one was racist and the other one wasn't. Thats why the racist one was suspended.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:47 pm to GCTiger11
Wait, which one are you saying was the joke?
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:52 pm to noonan
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Wait, which one are you saying was the joke?
You're just being disingenuous, as are many others in this thread.
This post was edited on 4/7/15 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:52 pm to noonan
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Wait, which one are you saying was the joke?
The racist one. Jokes can be racist, you know. I mean, saying n**gers are why your wifi sucks is pretty racist
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:54 pm to GaryMyMan
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RightWingTiger You're just a fricking idiot.
+1
Posted on 4/7/15 at 5:57 pm to Navytiger74
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For the record, I'm more than comfortable repeating the word, but I don't use it in my everyday parlance (not even with a 'ah). And I certainly think it's inappropriate in most settings--especially public and professional settings.
Seems like an odd bone to pick, though.
My point was if she gets suspended for making a racist joke then everyone that uses the word on campus should be suspended. Do you agree?
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:00 pm to Dead End
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suspended for making a racist joke
does not equal
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everyone that uses the word on campus should be suspended
It's not so much the word as it was her blaming black people for her wifi going out. She literally could have written "black people" on the board and still got suspended. I mean, come on fellas. This isn't rocket science.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:01 pm to GCTiger11
I'm fairly certain that her intent was not to actually mean that black people were stealing her wifi. The use of the term n***ers in her case was simply a poor attempt at humor. To say you know her comment was racist simply because of the color of her skin is in fact racist.
Eta: I actually think it would have been a whole lot worse if she had said "black people were stealing her wifi".
Eta: I actually think it would have been a whole lot worse if she had said "black people were stealing her wifi".
This post was edited on 4/7/15 at 6:03 pm
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:03 pm to noonan
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I'm fairly certain that her intent was not to actually mean that black people were stealing her wifi. The use of the term n***ers in her case was simply a poor attempt at humor.
Well what was the intended meaning behind the punchline?
This post was edited on 4/7/15 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:05 pm to Dead End
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My point was if she gets suspended for making a racist joke then everyone that uses the word on campus should be suspended. Do you agree?
Obviously I don't. What black guy used the word as a "racist joke"? To that kid, who probably doesn't come from the best of backgrounds, saying "n!gga" is literally no different than saying "dude". I didn't come up in that environment and I no longer spend too much time around a bunch of teenagers who throw the word around and this is not difficult for me to understand--at all. There was no racial context there. I think his coach should have suspended him for being a shitty sport and saying "frick that guy", but there's simply no racial component here.
And once upon a time when I wasn't pretty much exclusively in office settings, I heard young latin and white sailors (flatbill types) use the word in a setting of perceived camaraderie, and I gave them the same "knock it off" that I've given the black kids--because it's not appropriate. But I never thought of running it up the chain as any kind of "racial" incident.
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:05 pm to noonan
quote:Oh, I agree. I have family and friends who will drop a racist joke every now and then.
I'm fairly certain that her intent was not to actually mean that black people were stealing her wifi.
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The use of the term n***ers in her case was simply a poor attempt at humor.
Definitely. Actually, it was the worst word she could use. "Black people" or "blacks" would've probably gotten her suspended also.
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To say you know her comment was racist simply because of the color of her skin is in fact racist.
A white girl saying n**gers are why her wifi out, joke or not, is racist. It's cut-and-dry. A black girl saying crackers are why her wifi out is racist.
This post was edited on 4/7/15 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:08 pm to Navytiger74
quote:This debate will never end until people get this through their head. It's like they don't want to understand this.
To that kid, who probably doesn't come from the best of backgrounds, saying "n!gga" is literally no different than saying "dude".
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:09 pm to Goldrush25
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Well what was the intended meaning behind the punchline?
People
Posted on 4/7/15 at 6:11 pm to GCTiger11
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This debate will never end until people get this through their head. It's like they don't want to understand this.
Everybody understands this. But it doesn't make it right.
Arguing that a person can or can't do something simply because of the color of their skin is racist. There is no getting around that.
This post was edited on 4/7/15 at 6:11 pm
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