Toars....honekykins...what is with this throwing around of that most atrocious word? Do you think that because your avatar is black you can say it? Because really, no one should...it's just such a rude word!
Fuck that shit, nigger.
As a person who has actually been called a "nigger" before...you know, in real life, to my face...I would really like to know why you guys are spewing this word around like this! It really is a bit alarming.
I mean....you either are using the word because you like it for it's original meaning...which would make you racist, which would make you a shit head...or you are one of these "I can use the word because to me it means something other than it's original meaning" - which is stupid. Because the word DOES mean something. It is a derogatory word meant to degrade and humiliate.
But maybe I'll try things your way. From now on, I think that the word 'mango' should mean mindless, poison spewing, shitbag attention whore.
Why, Squish, fancy meeting you here...when's the last time I told you you are the fucking king mango?
No, I'm a person who understands that language is a fluent entity that only carries connotations that people ascribe to it. I curse a lot, and not because my vocabulary is poor or any qualifier for my lexical ability for that matter, I curse to desensitise people to it. Why? Because the idea that people should be offended by a fucking word pisses me off.
So, yeah, I say "nigger." My best mate's half cast, I say it to him, he laughs. I'm not kidding. It's. A. Fucking. Word. You chose to be offended by it, every time you pussyfoot about that word or are offended by it, you give it power. Why would you want to give something you hate so much power?
If the word no longer carries the connotations you ascribe to it, then it's no longer a weapon of hate; no longer a thing to be concerned of. It'll either be used casually, which will no longer matter, or will fade into obscurity as it's powerless.
So, here's my challenge to you; next time you see that word, or any word that offends you: Laugh. Please.
You know....I enjoy language. I love writing, I love speaking...I love conversation. I sometimes speak well and sometimes have a mouth that sounds like a cross between a sailor and a hooker in jail. There is no word that I hate...not even the word in question, really...but a few that I choose not to use. I'll tell you why.
In this era of "PCness" language and etiquette have been so damaged. What was once witty wordsmithing, is now offensive. What once was uncouth is now hilarious
because it is so inappropriate. So, I see you describe your usage of an utterly useless word as a backlash against the "PC" era...an attempt at desensitizing the people around you to such a word. My question for you....why do you need to hear the word so badly? I mean, your goal in saying it is take the sting out of it, to make it a word like any other....and this is the problem with this stupid, stupid generation. Why can't we have a bad word that shouldn't be said? Why can't we respect the history of a word? It is not to give it power, to never say it. It is to respect it's own heritage.
Whatever. It;s not that I hate the word. I'm a half black woman who looks ambiguously ethnic at best. I was raised in very diverse places, but still in middle class white neighborhoods. I don't have a long history of being ground down or picked on for my heritage and I won't pretend that I know very much about the black culture in our country....but when some kids in my neighborhood found out that my dad (who is a practical stranger to me) is black, and spit on me for it and called me "nigger girl" all the way to elementary school every day until I finally told my mother and she made me change schools...well, it really hurt me. It wasn't about the word. It was about people who used it to try to make me feel small. To try and make me feel less than. Trying to make me seem less relevant.
No black person here was ever a slave. No white person here ever enslaved anyone. I don't think we owe it to anyone
living to not say that word....I think we owe it to the past. We owe it to people who did legitimately fucking struggle, to put the damn thing to rest.
There is no purpose for the rehabilitation of such a word. <-- This is my real point. It's not like the word Fuck, which can be used in most any way imaginable. It isn't the word Slut, Cunt, Bastard...all of these words can be used in many different contexts and can be very funny. But Nigger?
Nigger means boy, gal, animal on two legs. It means MY Property. It means, you eat what I throw out the back door, scraps from my table. It means, you may not vote, I will rape you and you will give birth to my children and you don't have a say. It means, you are light skinned, so you can work in my house. It means, You are dark skinned and ugly to me and must work outside. It means, I have ultimate power over you and I will take you wherever I please, I will ensure that your people are kept in cages. It means, you can die and no one will care. It is a reminder of a burden that an entire race of people had to carry for the simple fact that they were of different color. It means Don't forget your place. It just sucks.
So whatever. Say what you will. Throw out any trash you wish to. But the truth of the matter is, in your effort to toss the "PC" coin out the window...you find yourself on the other side of it. PC is stupid. Throwing out inflammatory words because it makes you mad that people find them inflammatory, is even more stupid.
Have a little respect for the dead, for people who really did hate that word for a very real reason and who really didn't have the option of making it a word not spoken. I'm not asking you to bend to my sensibilities, I'm asking you to use your brain and class it up a bit.
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Topic: Rob, AKA NHArticleTen, we need to talk, no BS. (Read 39999 times)