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This word is stupid. Racial slurs are always such pointless things.
Besides, the word is dead and buried
I don't know how you can say that.
There are several generations of people alive, today, who were attacked by dogs, arrested, beaten, only because they were black. People who lived through apartheid in America.
I'm not saying that it is a thing that is gone and passed and we don't need to worry about it. I meant how the NAACP literally had an entire funeral for the word. It was a movement to take all power from the word. I'm pretty sure they even put a casket in the ground.
This word is stupid. Racial slurs are always such pointless things.
Besides, the word is dead and buried
I don't know how you can say that.
There are several generations of people alive, today, who were attacked by dogs, arrested, beaten, only because they were black. People who lived through apartheid in America.
I'm not saying that it is a thing that is gone and passed and we don't need to worry about it. I meant how the NAACP literally had an entire funeral for the word. It was a movement to take all power from the word. I'm pretty sure they even put a casket in the ground.
Right, except that the NAACP didn't do shit. Ideas are bulletproof.
We have a fucking idiot supervisor working at my UPS hub. Tall, lanky, goofy white kid. Apparently he thinks he's "hood", walks around rapping to himself, etc. Tosses the N word out there once in a while, but only in front of other white people, and it's usually the version with the "a" at the end as opposed to the "er".
One day he slipped. Was giving a black kid on my belt a bunch of shit since he was backed up a little bit, and told him "Just load your truck, n*****."
The kid punched the shit out of him. Actually knocked him off the dock. And then turned and continued doing his work.
He was reprimanded and was allowed to keep his job. The sup was suspended for two weeks.
Maybe he didn't do the right thing, but that's hilariously badass.
This word is stupid. Racial slurs are always such pointless things.
Besides, the word is dead and buried
I don't know how you can say that.
There are several generations of people alive, today, who were attacked by dogs, arrested, beaten, only because they were black. People who lived through apartheid in America.
I'm not saying that it is a thing that is gone and passed and we don't need to worry about it. I meant how the NAACP literally had an entire funeral for the word. It was a movement to take all power from the word. I'm pretty sure they even put a casket in the ground.
This word is stupid. Racial slurs are always such pointless things.
Besides, the word is dead and buried
I don't know how you can say that.
There are several generations of people alive, today, who were attacked by dogs, arrested, beaten, only because they were black. People who lived through apartheid in America.
I'm not saying that it is a thing that is gone and passed and we don't need to worry about it. I meant how the NAACP literally had an entire funeral for the word. It was a movement to take all power from the word. I'm pretty sure they even put a casket in the ground.
Right, except that the NAACP didn't do shit. Ideas are bulletproof.
We have a fucking idiot supervisor working at my UPS hub. Tall, lanky, goofy white kid. Apparently he thinks he's "hood", walks around rapping to himself, etc. Tosses the N word out there once in a while, but only in front of other white people, and it's usually the version with the "a" at the end as opposed to the "er".
One day he slipped. Was giving a black kid on my belt a bunch of shit since he was backed up a little bit, and told him "Just load your truck, n*****."
The kid punched the shit out of him. Actually knocked him off the dock. And then turned and continued doing his work.
He was reprimanded and was allowed to keep his job. The sup was suspended for two weeks.
We had a kid get his ass kicked last year for saying the n word around some black dudes
When I say "ass kicked" I mean they beat the piss out of this kid
The two black kids got like three days each, the other kid got a week because he had only managed to go six periods before getting suspended
Friends who were there claim it was the scariest thing because they just went berserk
This word is stupid. Racial slurs are always such pointless things.
Besides, the word is dead and buried
I don't know how you can say that.
There are several generations of people alive, today, who were attacked by dogs, arrested, beaten, only because they were black. People who lived through apartheid in America.
I'm not saying that it is a thing that is gone and passed and we don't need to worry about it. I meant how the NAACP literally had an entire funeral for the word. It was a movement to take all power from the word. I'm pretty sure they even put a casket in the ground.
Right, except that the NAACP didn't do shit. Ideas are bulletproof.
And Casketproof.
Of course the burial didn't do anything for someone who doesn't accept it. No one ever expected a great amnesia to run the land specifically erasing any memory of the word. But, it was a movement nonetheless. A great one, especially on a personal level for them and people who choose to accept it.
When something is buried, it's not gone completely. That would be impossible. But the funeral is a way to embrace its end and move on.
It's a shit word, and is too steeped in horrible history to even be considered to use!
Yeah. The idea is that using it as a term of endurement will undo some of that history. And it has depowered the word, in the sense that people do use it as something other than a racial slur now. When it is used as a slur, though, it's still just as hateful.
So, people've repurposed a weapon and made it a tool. It still can be used as a weapon, of course, but I'm all for freedom of language.
It's a shit word, and is too steeped in horrible history to even be considered to use!
it's people like you that continue to give the word its power
Not necessarily.
It's the fucks who still believe it that give it it's power (those being the racists that still use the word, not the black kid that beats up his UPS manager for calling him one).
It's a shit word, and is too steeped in horrible history to even be considered to use!
Yeah. The idea is that using it as a term of endurement will undo some of that history. And it has depowered the word, in the sense that people do use it as something other than a racial slur now. When it is used as a slur, though, it's still just as hateful.
So, people've repurposed a weapon and made it a tool. It still can be used as a weapon, of course, but I'm all for freedom of language.
I have no problem with that, I just don't think it's the right method. Why not just get a new word?
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This is why we can't have nice things.
I'm not saying that it is a thing that is gone and passed and we don't need to worry about it. I meant how the NAACP literally had an entire funeral for the word. It was a movement to take all power from the word. I'm pretty sure they even put a casket in the ground.
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Right, except that the NAACP didn't do shit. Ideas are bulletproof.
And Casketproof.
Maybe he didn't do the right thing, but that's hilariously badass.
They did, and it accomplished absolutely nothing.
like fiddy cent
What the hell
black holes aren't negative
they're fucking awesome
Who is quite relevant to this conversation, since he's a
card carrying member of the NAACP
man I once even saw a mexican dude call another mexican dude the n word
i mean, shit
we gave them the vote
the least they could do is let us borrow the word
That was a weird moment for me.
The only unusual part of that is "once"
We had a kid get his ass kicked last year for saying the n word around some black dudes
When I say "ass kicked" I mean they beat the piss out of this kid
The two black kids got like three days each, the other kid got a week because he had only managed to go six periods before getting suspended
Friends who were there claim it was the scariest thing because they just went berserk
Of course the burial didn't do anything for someone who doesn't accept it. No one ever expected a great amnesia to run the land specifically erasing any memory of the word. But, it was a movement nonetheless. A great one, especially on a personal level for them and people who choose to accept it.
When something is buried, it's not gone completely. That would be impossible. But the funeral is a way to embrace its end and move on.
I don't go to home depot a lot anymore
"Isn't....isn't that your word?"
"Yeah but you can borrow it, 'scoo"
I had always assumed it was something obscene, I guess
Exactly, that's why we don't say Nickleback anymore
Wiggin that's it I am officially gonna beat you up
because of Degrassi.
It's one of the few words whose use I simply cannot condone.
And when a bunch of white teens feel the need to turn the house into an X-box live diorama I start cracking skulls.
Yeah. The idea is that using it as a term of endurement will undo some of that history. And it has depowered the word, in the sense that people do use it as something other than a racial slur now. When it is used as a slur, though, it's still just as hateful.
So, people've repurposed a weapon and made it a tool. It still can be used as a weapon, of course, but I'm all for freedom of language.
it's people like you that continue to give the word its power
It's the fucks who still believe it that give it it's power (those being the racists that still use the word, not the black kid that beats up his UPS manager for calling him one).
I have no problem with that, I just don't think it's the right method. Why not just get a new word?
A person who sits on the porch and watches the neighbors.
A small child that enjoys being on the porch.
And what can I get for you, little porch monkey? Oh its okay, I'm taking it back.
well now you just sound like vanilla ice
It's a viral method of trying to remove the word's offense. With language, that is all you can do really.
Single greatest part of Clerks 2
I wished they still showed Daria on that channel too
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