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Trevo · 26-30, M
Usually it is pretty easy to know when people use it in a racist way or not.
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StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
I’ve known gay people who call each other fag. It’s not a slur but taking control of the word and removing the sting of hate from it. When a straight person uses it, it comes with the hate, intentional or not. Same thing with the n word I suppose. It makes me cringe when I hear people use the word but it doesn’t represent me so how I react is irrelevant.
StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
@anythingoes477 If you’re white and using the n word, it will be assumed you are a racist. Simple as that.
@StevetheSleeve The first person in every room---every conversation that calls someone else a racist--"IS" the racist. No one else is hanging on every word--willing to make any stretch to find something said or done so they can yell RACIST!! I'm whiter than Snow White and if I choose to call a person who acts like a nigger a nigger--I will. I'm just as quick to call out white trash for acting like white trash. If calling a spade a spade bothers the person listening----stop acting like a nigger (or white trash) and act like an ordinary person and color disappears. Who we are to others depends on how we act. If you--or they don't like that----change. No one calls Denzel Washington a nigger...or a list of others. Why? Because they don't act like one.

There's NOTHING wrong with the word. If there was blacks wouldn't use it every other word. What is wrong is knowing if they are called that it's because that is how they acted. I assume you're just too stupid to know the difference between color and class--and how it affects others when they see us--and how they refer to us.
StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
@anythingoes477 Racist-like typing detected. Sorry. You might as well just own it.
This is the irony of racism. If one looks up the definition of discrimination it basically says "persecuting some for saying or doing the same identical things that others can do, and for them it's perfectly OK."

So when blacks call out non-blacks racists for saying the word nigger---yet blacks themselves use that same exact word in everyday conversation, in movies, songs--almost as often as the word "the" is used-----then it is in effect blacks that are the ones that are promoting discrimination---by calling others out for doing the same exact thing that they do everyday--but for them it's OK.

The bad part about a "definition" is that it defines words---clearly....for EVERYONE. If blacks want the rest of us to know what discrimination is....then they should know that the definition of that word is exactly describing what they are doing to those around them--themselves. The definition of that is hypocrisy.
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Elegy · 46-50
For the same reason you don't like when a straight person calls you a dumb F word? 🤷
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Elegy · 46-50
@xvilyz 😢
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SW-User
I guess because it imparts a sense of brotherhood. Whites are considered outsiders.
VeronicaPrincess · 61-69
@xvilyz, @SW-User isn't casting judgement, she's simply offering an explaination.
SW-User
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SW-User
It's ignorance at best 🤷🏽‍♂️
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SW-User
@xvilyz you'll never have an answer to that question it's been going on for years
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Gothichorror · 22-25, F
Most black ppl don’t call themselves that. The ones that do are hardly the type of ppl anyone should be looking to imitate.
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Gothichorror · 22-25, F
@xvilyz Well ignorant ppl act and say stupid things. That’s the answer to your post ☺️
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American racial history makes it pretty obvious
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If you don't understand it maybe you should try looking into it honestly. Ask black people why. Read something. Quit bellyaching about it.
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MsMontgomery · 51-55, F
@ChairmanofthePool I’ve asked black people & it’s just the fact that the person is white, so it’s really racist on the person who gets upset... personally, I laugh when I’m called a cracker or anything like that. Why should it bother me? It doesn’t.
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kate21 · 26-30, F
A person’s inability to understand this never ceases to amaze me, and I usually suspect the person confused is at least someone disappointed he can’t call someone the n word, as tho that would solve all their problems,
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SW-User
Yeah I used to find it weird till I realised it must be like insulting your sibling, it’s okay when you do it but not when someone else does
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JP1119 · 36-40, M
[quote]you encourage white people to use it[/quote] That’s like saying because you sleep naked in your bed you’re inviting random people on the street to come into your house, take their clothes off, and sleep naked in your bed.
JP1119 · 36-40, M
@xvilyz It’s not offensive when a black person says it because it evokes history of shared trials; however, when a white person uses it, it evokes a history of slavery, racism, and oppression, and white people were on the giving side of that oppression, so it is offensive.
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JP1119 · 36-40, M
@xvilyz They’re not “offended by their past”, they’re offended by white people using the n word. Any white person that wants to use the n word is a racist.
SW-User
Yeah I don't get it either. 😕 I didn't even know nigga was a bad word, I always thought it means "dude". Until I was told by some RACIST himself that I'm being "offensive"...worse part? The person being offended wasn't even black they were just offended I had called them nigga. WTF.
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SW-User
@xvilyz Exactly. 😣
VeronicaPrincess · 61-69
We are a nation of paradoxes.
Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M
They say nigga instead of nigger... apparently there's a difference :-(
Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M
@xvilyz well somebody has to keep racial tension going! LOL
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Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M
@xvilyz VERY true
It reminds me a show called "The Boondocks." It caught all kinds of heat for using "the n word."
Then it won a naacp image award for its writing.
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@xvilyz Of course they did. People love being upset. It just amused me that the naacp gave them an award for that same writing everyone was supposed to be offended by.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
So what should a white guy feel when a black calls him nigga? Happens to me occasionally not often. I just usually say "Look at who is calling who what!".

Note I am not even remotely black.
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SW-User
I don't know how that's encouraging. There are offensive words that I've heard or hear every day, but I don't say them around other people.
Crazy how some complain because they can't freely call someone a nigger.
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whateverhappens · 26-30, F
Jus know your lane
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whateverhappens · 26-30, F
@xvilyz 😯
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Chickie · F
I never used the word
Chickie · F
Anybody that uses the N word, both of them, should be scalped
@Chickie Wow that would look funny, huh? 99% of the black community--scalped.
Chickie · F
@anythingoes477 That's was probably a bit harsh but I hate the usage of the word
@Chickie It's hard to hate a word--call it derogatory--when it used more by blacks themselves--than other races use it combined.

 
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