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Originally posted by Tymps.
Good thing there's no one to be offended because otherwise you would get your ass handed to you!
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UHMMM, if there were colored people here I wouldn't have even said that. Do you see me saying it here? Nope. I thought I made that obvious in my post.
Try again.
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Originally posted by Mast
Does it matter tho? That's the most common excuse that people use when they're caught saying ignorant ****.
The gays on this site would lose their **** if their faves said "***" or "that's so gay" even if they said "but I didn't mean it in a homophobic way".
It doesn't matter what the intentions were, the words still hold the meaning and are not theirs to use. Intention does not erase centuries of oppression.
Also, why the **** do all these white people feel entitled to use a word that their culture has used to oppress people of color? Why is it suddenly okay for them to bring the word back because "black people say it too" or "I'm not racist!"? Bitch please.
I'm an Afro-Latino, so take it from me that under no circumstances should white people be allowed to use the word. It may seem like "just a word", but the meaning behind it has definitely not gone away and the meaning won't go away just because slavery "doesn't exist anymore" (it still does). Crimes like these aren't just forgiven and forgotten.
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Ok I agree with the first part, but don't for a second think any culture owns any word. Plus it seems like you ignored 90% of my post...
Maybe if colored people stopped saying it in every song, the word would disappear and no one would use it anymore? "We" are not bringing the word back, black people are, accept that. If you desperately want it to go away, stop making it popular. Probably 90% of the white people who use it only use it because they've heard it somewhere. And just because my culture did bad things to you doesn't mean every white person is racist, sorry.
I just remembered a degratory word that the Turkish people used it to refer to Albanians, and we NEVER use that word even when talking to each other. It's offensive? Make it go away then, stop bringing it back.
I'm not justifying white people who use it [with racist intent] at all though, so don't mistake me for that.
And if it doesn't matter what the intentions are, then that makes it bad for black people to say it too (as a synonym for "dude") because, uhm, intentions don't matter, right?