re: Why can blacks call each other the "n" word but others can't?

quote:

---

Better question is why would you even want to call a black person the n word?

---

This is 20yo lame mullygrubbing. Outside entertainment (rap and some movies where it’s needed to establish credibility) blacks who do use **** use it in the same contexts as anyone else. It’s common in poor/ignorant communities, in some academic settings to discuss history or esoteric socio-political evolution, or almost not at all. Certainly not in professional settings or in mixed company. They’d be fired for using it in almost any workplace. Same as our poor victims who are feel oppressed because they “can’t say it.” Larry Williams or whomever lost show in part because of the bullshite he pulled at the WHCD a couple of years back. It was completely inappropriate. And he’s a comic.

You can call anyone dumbass...

It was inappropriate. The n word. Clutch.

Yeah it sorta takes air out of the "so disrespectful and hurtful" narrative.

That'd eliminate 60% of this board.

quote:

---

Who told you you can't? You're free to use the word as much as you want, just don't cry about being called a racist POS.

---

If that's your position, do you do consider black or brown people to use the term in everyday language to be a "racist POS"?

Just curious.

quote:

---

Black people, unique among the races, have carved out dispensations for themselves. They are essentially the children of America, held to a lesser standard, absolved of their responsibility to each other and the larger culture, and beholden only to their parents - white Progressive Democrats- who give them an allowance to keep them in line.

The rest of us have to observe the social contract.

---

/thread

quote:

---

Context mattters---juat the same for any word.

I can call someone a bitch and it's viewed as a term of endearmentand---I can call someone a bitch another time and it's taken as a slight.

I can tell someone "frick you" after they make a sly , clever comment and we laugh it off. I can tell someone "frick you" you at a bar and that leads to fitsicuffs

---

Only post in this thread that has the correct answer

quote:

---

to rob it of its power over them.

---

You think it's been robbed of its power?

It's 100 times more powerful.