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Nov 20, 2007, 05:28 PM
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| | | Tell me who's racist?
This is something i have issues with distinguishing. I do understand that people have to respect eachothers races but the main issue i have is btwn whites and blacks. Why are blacks seemingly allowed to use the N word where if a white used it LAWSUIT??? I have nothing against whites or blacks its just that line is blurred to me...
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Nov 20, 2007, 05:48 PM
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| It is called a double standard. | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 05:53 PM
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| I also don't understand the use of the N word by black people, I did not make the N word a bad word. I am an older person and lived with black people all of my younger years, and no one seemed to mind the N word, neither blacks or whites but all of a sudden it got to be a very bad word and as of yet I still do not know why. | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:01 PM
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| Words do have power. That is a name the white slave owners gave them and now they seem to have taken for their own. If it is such a horrible thing to say, why don't they bury it like they expect white people should. I guess it's a too important part of thier victim mentality. If you are a victim then you are owed something. Like 40 acres and a mule. | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:02 PM
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| Why are we playing "Take away words"?
If one word gets taken off the list of words, another word will take it's place, and then perceived to be derogatory. Then that word will be stricken, and subsequently replaced and so on....
I can think of words that are uniformly worse: How about: deceased, cancer, missing, fired, unemployed...
Ban all words and we'll go back to grunting. And that may be deemed as uncivilized as well... Hmmm... | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:03 PM
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:04 PM
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by CaptainRich Ban all words and we'll go back to grunting. And that may be deemed as uncivilized as well... Hmmm... |
I think we should ban the word "Grunting." It just sounds nasty. | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:06 PM
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Pay to call ScottGem for advice ($.75/min) | Search Amazon.com for Randall Kennedy. | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:07 PM
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by letmetellu I also don't understand the use of the N word by black people, I did not make the N word a bad word. I am an older person and lived with black people all of my younger years, and no one seemed to mind the N word, neither blacks or whites but all of a sudden it got to be a very bad word and as of yet I still do not know why. |
I don't know for sure ither but I'll bet Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson had something to do with it.  | |
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Nov 20, 2007, 06:53 PM
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by magprob I don't know for sure ither but I'll bet Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson had something to do with it. |
Ha, good one. But is it not frustrating when the boundary of words and who can say them is blurred. What about free speech but then what about a persons rights? UGH | |
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