Originally Posted by
ThatsOurEric
There can never be any "context" for any racial slur. A racial slur basically says, "I hate you, your family, your
entire race." Blind, uneducated hate that generalizes negativity.
Just because Pewdiepie didn't say it antagonistically towards an African person doesn't change the fact that the
N-word is a word of hate. Basically the only step up from a curse word like "asshole", "cunt" and so forth is to
call someone a slur that insults the person's race. No one that is not racist ever uses a racial slur for any reason.
Not to insult someone, not to "joke" about someone, period. So him calling that guy an N-word is not only beyond
pathetic (considering the mountain of other choices he could've said), but it goes to show that if his immediate
response was a racial slur, I'm sorry, but it means he has some closeted feelings of racism. I've never gotten so
mad at someone that I blurt out a racial slur towards them. Neither do a great deal of other people, so there's no
real "excuse" or "context" where it was completely fine for him to say that.
Idiots throw that and any other racial slur because those words carry a great deal more impact than your typical
insult and everyday curse word. Anyone can be called an asshole. Not everyone can be called an N-word or any
other racial slur.