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Topic	27 y/o Country Music Star Soars to #1 AFTER he uses the N-WORD!!!
ReturnOfFa 02/04/21 9:26:21 PM #8:	Shadowbird_RH posted... How/why? Is it because they tend not to end it with an r sound (motha, brotha, fugga, whateva. It's the same word. Dialect doesn't dictate definition), or is it because one person is black and the other person is white? Historical context. Your first idea, I consider irrelevant. You're right, it's the same word. Like any racial slur. It is different when a Chinese person discusses a racial slur against their people in a group than when an English/American/Canadian/Australian white person decides to use that slur. There is an inherently different dynamic, due to historical context. I'm not saying that a white person can't use racial slurs in a very careful method of discussion (it's not my position to deem what's 'correct' or not, but even Mark Twain parsed differences in what he wrote and what he quoted, when using the N-word), but I'm saying that using them is best avoided in colloquial situations. Most people that I know who jokingly use racial slurs (that are white) with their friends (that are white) seem very desensitized to racial violence that exists. Me using it jokingly or casually ignores all the people that have been treated to racial hatred since their childhoods - something which I have not endured. A guy I go to school with literally told me a story about them tying up a black kid to goal posts when they were in elementary school. Then they whipped him. He laughed and said that the teachers were crying about it. Great. The people that support this guy BECAUSE of something like this are...well, I just find it sad. --- girls like my fa <cite>ReturnOfFa posted [p:950290849] in 27 y/o Cou... [t:79278159]...</cite> <quote>Shadowbird_RH posted... </cite> <quote>How/why? Is it because they tend not to end it with an r sound (motha, brotha, fugga, whateva. It's the same word. Dialect doesn't dictate definition), or is it because one person is black and the other person is white?</quote>Historical context. Your first idea, I consider irrelevant. You're right, it's the same word. Like any racial slur. It is different when a Chinese person discusses a racial slur against their people in a group than when an English/American/Canadian/Australian white person decides to use that slur. There is an inherently different dynamic, due to historical context. I'm not saying that a white person can't use racial slurs in a very careful method of discussion (it's not my position to deem what's 'correct' or not, but even Mark Twain parsed differences in what he wrote and what he quoted, when using the N-word), but I'm saying that using them is best avoided in colloquial situations. Most people that I know who jokingly use racial slurs (that are white) with their friends (that are white) seem very desensitized to racial violence that exists. Me using it jokingly or casually ignores all the people that have been treated to racial hatred since their childhoods - something which I have not endured. A guy I go to school with literally told me a story about them tying up a black kid to goal posts when they were in elementary school. Then they whipped him. He laughed and said that the teachers were crying about it. Great. The people that support this guy BECAUSE of something like this are...well, I just find it sad. --- girls like my fa</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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