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Tmk posted...

How often do you see people get called the K-word? What about the S-word? Do you even know what words I'm referring to?

I'd imagine everyone here, has probably heard people get called the N-word, more than those. And there's a reason for that.

It's really not some radical notion to say if you popularise a word, it will be used more. You're trying to...basically use the argument people use against any kind of gun control: "If this won't completely remove the problem 100%, what's the point?!?!" as though mitigation of any magnitude is just irrelevant.

Yes. Because I've heard people be called both of those before. I've only been called the n-word in a way that made me angry 3 times. Twice by cars rolling by me while I was walking, and once at a party where the kid got beat up by the people there.

Now what would be minimized? People using it to be cool. As annoying and ignorant as that is, I've never thought to fight someone for trying to connect with me on that level. I simply don't associate with them. Once they realize it's not getting them the level of respect and camaraderie that they were expecting, they usually stop saying it around me, and then suddenly I can be cool with them again.

The N-Word, as a verbalized weapon on a historically oppressed race isn't going anywhere. And quite frankly, if I were a white person, I hope to god that I would have the shame and sense to not blame a regrettable word being in our vocabulary and having continued use on the people it was originally used against.
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