Do you feel personally offended if you can't use the N-Word?

[Arsinoë]

I'm talking N***a and not the -er version.

 

Do you think people are oversensitive and there's a double standard?

 

Basically, i'm curious. In a thread earlier someone used it and I pointed it out. Any discussion was shut down - which honestly I wasn't intending for one. (I'm more annoyed that someone can be a "black woman" inside - how? try explaining that without using stereotypes and treating Black obviously American women as one-dimensional... but that's a tangent for another day.)

 

If you can read this:

 

HEY! That’s not fair! Either everyone can use it or nobody can use it!!!

 

Well, no. Reclaiming slurs doesn’t really work like that. When used by non-Black PoC or white people, it still has that power to oppress and trigger, even when used in a camaraderie sense. When used amongst Black people, its power as a slur is reduced. source

 

And still think it's a double standard, it kind of makes you seem intolerant. Sorry.

 

Thanks for your time~

[Little Eight]

I don't really care for words like that tbh.

[Saint Rose]

SMDH @ anyone who feels entitled to use a slur 

[I Am Youngjae]

I can say it all i want cuz im in asia. But not on the internet

[Rouga]

What word? Nigga? Well i use it sometimes, and i'm white

[SAYAKA]

I don't use it nor do I care for it. I find it funny though that there are people who aren't black who want to hold onto that word like it's something so important to them.

[LunarE]

You should've added a 'I answered no' for the second question.

[D Kawaii Adventurs Of Ayyu]

i dont see how its empowering but each to their own.

 

i personally dont use it

[Athena]

I don't use it nor do I care for it.

[sugarfreesongof2014]

So basically then Non-black people can't eat fried chicken since the only way that Black slaves could eat cooked chicken cheaply was by frying it ok~~~~

[Kaity]

i will never understand people who say "if black people use it why cant we"

how in the world does that give you an automatic right to use the nword.

 

and what does it even mean to you

[sunggyuluver]

I see no reason to use it. 

[TheRealWhale]

My N**a is a way of saying "hi my fellow black people/person"

 

Are you black?? Why do you wanna use it??

[Kaity]

double post

[desu]

[dinolover]

im fine if someone tells me not to use it

So basically then Non-black people can't eat fried chicken since the only way that Black slaves could eat cooked chicken cheaply was by frying it ok~~~~

stfu

*closesyour account*

[Blinket]

No

No

No

[dinolover]

*closes my account*

that was the last straw

[elmo]

why would someone feel personally offended that they cant use it though lol?? that's stupid

[SAYAKA]

So basically then Non-black people can't eat fried chicken since the only way that Black slaves could eat cooked chicken cheaply was by frying it ok~~~~

 

wtf is this even suppose to mean?

[sugarfreesongof2014]

im fine if someone tells me not to use it

 

stfu

*closesyour account*

I don't get it with these double standards. Also, I don't use the n word.

[mochichan]

I'm too classy for that word > 3 <

[Athena]

So basically then Non-black people can't eat fried chicken since the only way that Black slaves could eat cooked chicken cheaply was by frying it ok~~~~

Horrible and ignorant comparison

[gamguu]

never used it and never will (i'm white though)

 

well, i agree with you... when you spend time thinking about it, it does seem silly that the offensive word was slightly changed

 

if you want, you can look at it as a deep metaphor to show that the past was overcome (the one ending in "gga")

 

we can also just not think about it

[SunnyHill's Comeback]

There really is no justification for using a slur. It will always carry it's offensive history. I personally don't care, but just remember someone out there will.