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LeonhartFour posted...

I dunno. I spent almost my entire life in the south, and I don't know that I ever had a problem recognizing that's a word I shouldn't say, other than first learning the word, I guess.

did your friends call each other/you that? when i say setting i mean more than geographical, i'm talking about the norm among your peers

i literally never even heard the word until seeing roots in middle school history. the next day in history class our teacher asked us to list examples of what the slavers called their slaves, and i repeated the word, and she was like 'we don't say that word.' i was really puzzled at the time as it was a direct answer to her question, but that might be the only time i've actually been told that the word was bad

StealThisSheen posted...

If his thought process is that the n word and "asshole" are the same, then why did he feel the need to "correct" TO asshole and downplay it? If he legitimately thinks they're the same, then he shouldn't have even reacted to saying it.

If you think it's okay to take a cookie from the cookie jar, you just take it. You don't try to sneak in, take it, then go "Oh, uh, I thought it was a carrot" if you get caught.

That's basically admitting wrong-doing.

what i mean is, to him, they're the same. but he can recognize from the reaction of others that it's not. but in what i assume is a very solitary activity where he's used to having no filter, he sometimes defaults to the worse one without thinking

and yes, he admitted wrongdoing

i'm guessing that for him, it's more comparable to me getting a paper cut during a school presentation and accidentally saying 'motherfucker' instead of 'ouch' or 'dammit'
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