I don't understand why blacks call eachother the n word but get offended when a white person saids it?
if it bothers you that much then quit saying it . you encourage white people to use it
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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.
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StevetheSleeve · 31-35, M
@xvilyz It’s not always the word so much as the source and intention.
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anythingoes477 · M
@StevetheSleeve "When a straight person uses it, it comes with the hate". Not all the time it doesn't. That is YOUR perception of what you THINK someone else means because you're primed and ready for a fight--even if one was not in the air prior. That is YOUR perceived paranoia---assuming what someone else"probably" meant.
And I can say it but you can't---being explained away as "taking control of a word to make sure it's not abused"----------is bullshit. It's I can do this---but I don't want you to be able to do what I'm doing----(control)---plain and simple.
And I can say it but you can't---being explained away as "taking control of a word to make sure it's not abused"----------is bullshit. It's I can do this---but I don't want you to be able to do what I'm doing----(control)---plain and simple.
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.
anythingoes477 · M
@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.
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.