Quote:
Originally posted by Chimier
This post is all types of wrong and illogical.
Black people reclaimed the word for themselves, not for the whole of society.
And which racial slur against whites has been used to oppress them? Oh ok.
|
That's impossible. You can't reclaim a word just for one group. The meaning of the n-word can't be one way for black people, another way for white people, and another way for Asian people. Words don't work like that. If the meaning changes, the meaning changes for everyone. For example, gay USED to mean happy. The meaning of that word has since changed. Not just for one group, but for all society. The F-word used to stand for a brand of cigarettes, not anymore. Bitch used to be a female dog, that's changed too. If a word has been "reclaimed" or otherwise had it's meaning changed, then the change applies to everyone because the core meaning to a word is now different. That's not the case with the N-word, and to act like it has shows a lack of understanding of the English language and how it works.
A word can't actually oppress anyone. It's just that, a word. It doesn't mean it's not offensive or hurtful, but the word isn't what's doing the oppressing. Everyone is on equal ground there. And just being oppressed doesn't give you the right to discriminate against others. That just makes you racist and discriminatory too.
Quote:
Originally posted by Truffle.
They couldn't just bury the word in the dirt?  |
This xINFINITY
what do people not understand
