What’s delusional is doing the same thing over and over yet expecting different results. Sadly that’s where we are at right now.
Because dividing people by race, and then making rules by race, justifies the mentality of the segregated South, and a lot of people don't want that to flourish. Try this:
What’s weird is if you say “n word” everyone knows what the word referred to actually is. It’s playing in our heads when that expression is used. The most offensive use, IMHO, is when a person is called that offensive name. I think things would improve if ALL races stopped using it. It should disappear. Otherwise, it appears to be a power game with one group reveling over the fact that they can use it while the other group can’t.
Jump to conclusions much kiddo.
Maybe consider volunteering, donating or running for office to make some type of tangible changes in people’s lives, vs. trying to condemn others on an anonymous chat board
without knowing them, giving them the benefit of the doubt or being enough of a considerate & caring person to ask questions before pronouncing judgement.I live in NYC, see the moniker gives it away
. Why would I choose to move here, if I had those issues (never met a NY born/bred Gopher fan, personally) - this is called deductive logic.
, so I’m the farthest thing from your ignorant and uninformed post.I don't mean to put you on the spot to be a representative of your whole race, but...
I mean I have family members who use it in a similar fashion. I have no issue with it. Some black people have chose to embrace the word because it was use so long in a derogatory way that they feel like they are taking the power back. I don’t use it because I don’t want others to use it around me.
It was a white coach who tweeted it. He read a tweet from a WHITE coach. Why are we blaming black people using the word amongst each other for a mistake that someone has admitted that he made. He also has multiple resources that he could have asked before even reading the tweet. He has 2 black assistants who were both caught by surprise and have quit since he has been reinstated. I don’t get why people are more upset about black people using the word than they are about the actual coach who admitted he was wrong using the word
I was pretty clear in my comment why. Apparently you just aren’t going to understand it ever.
so it being common place in the African American community is what made this happen even though the tweets he read were actual racist comments from a white coach. The tweets that he read used the N word with an er at the end. Explain to me how that makes sense.
So you properly applied context to their use of the word but disregard all context with any white person's use of the word. I'm not saying you're wrong but realize that you're doing this for only one word.
As long as you are just talking about decisions you are making for yourself, no one would disagree with you.
I understand how you got there, and that may have been poor writing on my part.
It’s delusional to think that it wouldn’t be less likely to be used if it wasn’t commonplace in the African American community. I highly doubt many if anyone would still feel the need to use the word if it wasn’t acceptable for Afirican Americans to use it in their own community.
I didn't mean to disregard a white person's use - I thought we had established that it shouldn't ever be used. And yes, it's this one word in this case, but there are other slurs for other groups that might be ok within their community but not outside (particularly thinking about words related to sexual and gender identity). As you said many posts ago, there is nuance in the world and yes, different standards for different people. I think Flom really should have known better, but everyone should be given the opportunity to make a mistake and learn from it. Lord knows I used some language in my youth that would be considered hurtful today, and I stopped doing it. It's the people that fail to address or even acknowledge their transgressions that are problematic.
This is nonsense. It's incredible that you believe this. How often have you been around African American people to know how commonplace it is? Also, I grew up in a majority-white town and was called the N-word way more growing up than when I moved to the cities with more people of color. You must be a troll or sincerely naive to think this is true. There are still white people in many places that never stop using the word as it was initially intended. It is incredible that you believe this when the tweet he was reading wasn't even used in a similar context to how African Americans use it. It was literally a tweet about not going to Chicago because too many n-words (er) were there
Unfortunately, you don't get to make the rules. Why do you care if the group it was targeted at reclaims the word?
A black person tweeted not to go to Chicago?
Who does?
Have you been consulted?
No, the coach from Rogers who got fired. That was what the whole incident stemmed from