Actually it's not really a burden and it's not making us upset, alot of people just find it totally ludicrious and honestly quite stupid (myself included) how a racial slur can be used as a word for endearment. I believe the 1st Rush Hour movie even made fun of this on the scene where Chris Tucker used this very term to another black guy and everything was perfectly normal yet when Jackie Chan used it he ended up having to defend himself against a group of black guys. Now you may argue that "It's just a movie, who gives a damn?!" Well, these sort of things aren't just conjured from thin air.... like alot of other stereotypes there is actually some truth behind it.
I work at a warehouse where I hear this term literally atleast 100x a day, and guess what? ALL the people who use this term at my job are black!! /shocker!! Never in my 11 years of working at this place have I heard a non-black person say this word, because if they do it IS considered racist.
Last edited by Razeo; 2012-08-02 at 07:44 AM.
Why do you care what other people call each other?
excuse me, but how can these terms be racist if they're used by BLACK people...?
Silly you. Non-whites can't be racist, didn't you know that?
These days people are too easily offended. I don't care. I use whatever word comes to me first, if they can't handle it, they can get lost.
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See, here, he gets it, non whites not racist
(oh man that's so stupid)
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I don't think "caring" and just finding said ethnic group with such comfort to this word that defining it as laughable-hypocrisy is an understatement is exactly the same thing. Like seriously, there are times when I just mentally /faceplam and ask myself "Why even use such a word?" Why not "Buddy" or "Man"? Or make up some other word that associates such a friendship, but really? I mean really?! Like, of all words people use this term?
But no, I could care less whether I hear it 1000 or 1mil times a day....... The fact that the people who use this word just strike me as hypocrits, That is all.
Last edited by Razeo; 2012-08-02 at 09:24 AM.
I'm actually shocked that this thread has lasted as long as it has but now I'm putting in my 2 cents. Get over it. Why do you care if some people can "use" a word and you "can't"? Why do you feel that you are special enough to be included? This is what's wrong with so many people nowadays; the need to be part of the group. "Well, if they can say/do it, than I should be able to do it tooooo!" (I threw the extra o's on there to illustrate your whining) Just accept that you aren't included and move the hell on. It's not going to affect any aspect of your life to let this fight die.
And then you have the mental midget who posted this crap. Grow up, kid.
That's not entirely true. Words are fluid, in that they can mean so many different things. An earlier poster used the example of calling a friend an "asshole" or calling a stranger the same thing, with different results. The term "bitch" is almost universally derogatory but you will often here it bandied about in groups of women, almost as a term of endearment. But let a man use it within ear shot concerning one of them, unless he is already an accepted part of their group, he will come under attack. The same can be said of the word "nigger" or "nigga". It's a socially acceptable word, to a very limited extent. So stop getting all pissy because you aren't part of the group.
Wtf. Words dont mean different things. How you take them is different. Arsehole still means arsehole regardless of who you say it to.
I was looking in expecting a somewhat more interesting question about why this supposed organisation doesn't stop the black community from using racist terms against other communities, while demanding that other communities DO stop using racist terms against the black one.
I don't like being called racial slurs either, but apparently I have to accept it because I am a middle-aged white male and therefor only capable of committing racism, and not being the victim of it.
Guess I was wrong.
The boondocks episode where martin luther king JR. was not killed, but merely in a coma then woke up comes to mind reading this. Basically at the end, after seeing what people were doing to all his work, he went off on a rant, I'm sure its on youtube.