re: Marine Corps commanding general relieved of duty

Had this been in effect when I served, there’d have been no NCO’s lol.
As someone else alluded to, we are fricked in the next war. Muh feelings.

I think I just lost the well-earned respect I had for the USMC.

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"How would you feel if I called you a neeger?"



Adds up. Silliness...but, adds up

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Right - this is what happens when we make a word conditionally radioactive.

As an example, I could hold a seminar at a major university where we discussed just how hurtful it is for black folks to even hear that word, with loud rap music filtering in from the Quad or Student Union or even have students of African extraction walk by referring to each other using some derivative of the word.

However if I so much as utter the word during the seminar during which I describe how awful the word is or even write it out on the whiteboard (?<- word is racist AF, but I digress), then I'm gone. Finished. Ruined. "You'll never work in this town, again, Ace."

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Some of the music incorporated the n-word, which allegedly prompted Neary to ask other marines how they would feel if he said it.

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Well. That's absolutely ridiculous. It's amazing they felt willing to do that without being totally embarrassed.

Ah, the old n word double standard. I can say it, but you can’t say it, even if quoting someone.

It amazes me that people constantly seem willing to die on this hill.

Constantly.

This patriot is asking the same questions we conservatives have asked for years, if the N word is abhorrent then it's abhorrent......no exceptions in any circumstances.

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This is just practical advice. ConservativeS like to pretend they’re the practical party till they can’t use the N-word. Then it’s all about equality and idealism

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I don't know many white people that even use the word, especially in a derogatory context, but I do hear it all the time from blacks and mexicans.

To your point, it's a word, not an action. It's obviously NOT the word that "offends" them, it's who's saying it. That indicates that they are holding all white people accountable for the actions of their ancestors, which is, itself, racist.

We are really this soft as a nation? A word made our military leadership weaker today. I hope the Japs and Ruskies don't call our soldiers that mean word if we ever go to war.