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Originally posted by J a y
Lol, ATRL doing the most as always. Louis said the n-word with an 'a' on the end. Everyone is well aware of the difference. Am I condoning his use of it? No. Should the word be used? Absolutely not. Is it only okay for black people to use both uses of the n-word? Apparently. If black people want to use a word that was once used to offend them, then fair enough they can go ahead. It's not exactly a smart thing to do, but the world has accepted it in fear of offending this said group in particular.
So, in recent years the n-word (with an 'a') has become a word to use in a way of communicating with someone else, and that goes for all races. This has been widely 'accepted' (in a manner of street slang, but not widely accepted in a way that it's acceptable to use such language). The word is still offense. It will always be offensive. What it shouldn't be is a word in which black people have control over and can pick and choose when the word is offensive and when it is not. The n-word has been widely accepted by the black community and views vary on the use of it by white people. Wrong on many levels but whatever.
The n-word is disgusting, ill-mannered, offensive and rude. No one should use it. I don't care if you're black, white, orange or turquoise. I've had to accept that the black community, especially rappers, can and will use the word as and when they please. I've accepted this, despite not quite understanding why the said community would want to hear such a vile word, let alone use it. I doubt anyone who was involved in the treatment of blacks in the 50s would utter the n-word without shuddering.
Louis Tomlinson is not the problem here. You told him it was okay to use the n-word (ending in 'a'). Deal with it.
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It's called reappropriation and it's really not a bad thing. It's a way of taking a word that was once used to oppress you from your oppressors. Taking the power away from it and them.
It's meant to take away the offensiveness of it for that minority not cause it. The lgbt community has done tons of this, the word gay itself was once an insult before it was reclaimed and reappropriated.
I don't think we are ready for non black people to acceptably use the N word and we may never be ready for that (I would most certainly never use it) but it's really not bad for them to use it. It takes power away from those who would use it to oppress them It makes those people look idiotic and old fashioned rather than powerful and oppressive.
Reappropriation happens all the time in many different ways, if someone gives you, something you stand for or something you have created some silly and or derogatory name, reclaiming it can completely destroy any power they have by using that word. We can't just live in a world where a whole bunch of words are eternally banned from use, words change and their meanings change. Sometimes you can make something bad into something good.
Niall would never.
