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| Topic | So Pwedipie dropped the N bomb in his live stream today |
| NibeIungsnarf 09/10/17 6:54:27 PM #134: | boxington posted... yea, because mod said anything worthy of debate Not really. Terra-enforcer posted... Because it's a racial slur? Boy, the idiot racists are working overtime on CE, huh? It's perfectly logical to be upset with someone using a racial slur like this. You'd have to be incredibly stupid to not see why people "care." Okay, you got me. I get why people care. I just think its stupid to do so and especially to label someone a racist just because they say a slur. You're saying that the word itself is racist and not the context where it is used to demean people of a certain race. If it doesn't matter if you say the n-word in a bout of gamer rage or directly to a black person to insinuate your disgust with their person, what's the point of distinguishing between the two situations? What an amazingly counter-productive approach to battle racism to give that much power to a word and then waste all your energy fighting against the power you've just given it instead of allocating that energy to fighting the sentiment in the second example. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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