Is "dropping the n-bomb" racist?
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As a black person, I really hate that word and avoid putting it in my vocabulary. But I know many black people who used it as their "greeting" with their social group. Just because they said it does not change my mind on that word. So best advice would be only use the n word when the people around you are okay with it. Or better yet, do not use it at all.
Wow... Projecting?SonOfVoorhees said:
1) I never even said you. Re-read it. I said if I call someone... I made an unbelievably specific insult that had nothing to do with you and you STILL thought it was about you? I'm impressed.
2) I am actually agreeing with you. Have you bothered to look through what I've been saying this thread? That the word is only offensive when used AGAINST black people? Even quoting Chris Rock that it's okay for white people to say ****** when singing a rap song?
My point was you said a word is offensive or it isn't. I said any word can be offensive. See? I even bolded it for you to re-read.
Don't y'all be jumping down my throat because you didn't read my points properly.
My hair-splitting business has been destroyed ever since Hair and Shoulder brought out their new anti-split formula. The industry has been in free-fall ever since.Scars Unseen said:
I'm fairly sure he was saying that a word is either OFFENSIVE or NOT OFFENSIVE, and if a word is OFFENSIVE, then they can't use it in rap songs and be OFFENDED if white people also use it. That if one group uses it, everyone can use it.
I am honestly not sure how your point and his point meet, they seem to actually be opposite.
I hate this word. I am not black. So, it's not about me wanting to say it.
Let's be honest. African-American people are using that word for everything including calling other black people that. It is blatantly hypocritical for any of them to get upset when that word get used by a non-black person in a context that is clearly not used in a racist way.
Let's be honest. African-American people are using that word for everything including calling other black people that. It is blatantly hypocritical for any of them to get upset when that word get used by a non-black person in a context that is clearly not used in a racist way.
You don't know my cousins. Saying you're like Thor is a pretty offensive if you ask me. =)L. Declis said:
Sooo, you completely agree with him in that it's the context in which it is used that determines whether or not it's racist.Scars Unseen said:
Pretty much this. Obviously, calling someone that (or any slur) is pretty awful, but the word can be used in proper contexts or in art, etc.Major_Tom said:
Discrimination based on race, positive or negative, is racism. If a black person is 'allowed' to use the word but a white person isn't, it's racism. Bit ironic since it's a racial slur, but hey. I'm aware 'white people' have a bad history with enslaving black people, but that does not really apply to all white people. Or even most of them. I'm white, but none of my ancestors had slaves. My ancestors lived in extreme poverty in a place so inhospitable that it was rare that people lived past 40 due to hunger, extreme cold, disease, and Denmark. So why am I stuck with a social stigma neither I nor my ancestors had anything to do with?
Either all people are allowed to say '******', or no one is. Otherwise, we're accepting racism as a social norm.
Either all people are allowed to say '******', or no one is. Otherwise, we're accepting racism as a social norm.
Me and my cunts back home frequently make use of the word ****** when describing any individual who performed an impressive action. Of course some cunts will use it in a negative manner to describe people of colour but of course those retards are a minority and shouldn't dictate what the word means.
Of course it originates from "negro" which, if I remember correctly, is another language's word for "black person" and contains no negative connotations. But since the slave trade was engaged in by Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, English and other European powers the word became more widespread and eventually turned into a slur.
Is "Oriental" a slur? No. Unless there's some other supposedly politically correct word one can use to describe individuals from Persia and further East but not including Russia, Australia and New Zealand. "From the Orient" is a geographical region, "******" isn't used to describe Africa.
Of course it originates from "negro" which, if I remember correctly, is another language's word for "black person" and contains no negative connotations. But since the slave trade was engaged in by Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, English and other European powers the word became more widespread and eventually turned into a slur.
Is "Oriental" a slur? No. Unless there's some other supposedly politically correct word one can use to describe individuals from Persia and further East but not including Russia, Australia and New Zealand. "From the Orient" is a geographical region, "******" isn't used to describe Africa.