Current Events > So if someone calls me the N word I should accept that?

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Is that what you're telling me? I should just accept it and move on?
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Yes?

I get that the word has a history, but it's still just a word. And I bet you'll anger the other person more if you don't react to it than if you do. Edit: wait, if it's a person like a police officer or a teacher, report them and get them fired from their jobs. But a regular person? Let them say what they want.
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No, you should punch them in the face
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According to the right-wing trash on this site, yes.
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Are you a kid? No? That is a meaningless word. Getting triggered by a harmless word makes you petty.
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No you should write about it in your blog.
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I usually say something back, nothing serious, but something that usually (should) make them feel bad about saying it.
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It's really great that so many are willing to tell black people how to act.

No? If someone personally calls you the n-word you have every right to be upset.

But that's not what happened with PDP. He didn't directly call anyone the "n-word", he just shouted it aloud like people do every other curse word when frustrated. He was not actually communicating it at him, it's an expression of exclamation for only himself to hear. I say all kinds of insult out loud to myself when I'm playing League, like "Look at this douchebag! What an asshole! Stupid c-word! Oh my god, I'm gay!". Often times, the worse the phrase the more cathartic the exclamation. But that's the point of the phrase--Catharthism in a moment of tension, not a communication of insult to another person.

But he was on stream, which is obviously a problem. Sometimes what you say in private is not fit for the public. It was a stupid mistake, yes, but don't conflate it to a racial slur against a black person to their face.
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say something back.
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lol if you get offended by anything
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The answer to that is the same as "Are you an adult?".
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According to some yes. You're just supposed to take it like a good boy. Racists are apparently OK to do whatever they want and anyone that says otherwise is an SJW

Apparently thinking that you shouldn't react violently to insults means that you should just accept them. Insult the person back or tell them off or even throw racial slurs right back at them.
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DifferentialEquation posted...

Apparently thinking that you shouldn't react violently to insults means that you should just accept them. Insult the person back or tell them off or even throw racial slurs right back at them.

It one thing to say they shouldn't.

It's another thing to criticism them on a moral ground for reacting reasonably to a racial slur.
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yes, all of these white pasty NEETs think you should just get over it and stop being a snowflake

these guys are really the paragon of the outside world and understand how it works
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You don't need physical violence. Just provoke them again this time recording then post it on social media. Then watch as their life is ruined and they whine about how unfair it is that their actions have repercussions.

CurzonDax posted...

Is that what you're telling me? I should just accept it and move on?

No, you shouldn't accept it.

Ignore them or alternatively, call them a racial slur right back, swear at em, insult them, etc... Just don't punch them in the face unless they attack you physically first.
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Sounds like a reaction to something I didn't hear about.

I'm guessing the correct response is something along the lines of "you don't have to like it but there are better way to deal with the situation than *insert reaction in question*.
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Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you
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No, but you shouldn't assume that when you hear someone else calling some unknown player as N, whose race the insulter had no idea, that it was directed to every single black person. You get to get just as angry as you do.
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Hercik1 posted...

You don't need physical violence. Just provoke them again this time recording then post it on social media. Then watch as their life is ruined and they whine about how unfair it is that their actions have repercussions.

Nice.

No. You should do the smart thing and assault them so then you can go to prison
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No. Collect those receipts and post them on social media. Tell all your friends. Copy their employers. Finally, publicly demand an apology in that media.
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hollow_shrine posted...

No. Collect those receipts and post them on social media. Tell all your friends. Copy their employers. Finally, publicly demand an apology in that media.

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gamepimp12 posted...

DifferentialEquation posted...

Apparently thinking that you shouldn't react violently to insults means that you should just accept them. Insult the person back or tell them off or even throw racial slurs right back at them.

It one thing to say they shouldn't.

It's another thing to criticism them on a moral ground for reacting reasonably to a racial slur.

Reacting violently is not reacting reasonably. I once had to deal with someone who kept talking shit about my cat and I never reacted violently, and I would have been in the wrong if I did.
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Sheltered white kids on the Internet say yes
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Yes. You shouldn't deny that they called you that.
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