You serious? The word has been used for a loooong time to demean and dehumanize a hroup of people. It’s only recently been reclaimed by that group of people. The thing is, I a white person saying the word with or without the hard R. Is very different than a black person saying it.
There is no pass, there is no saying it in private or because it’s a lyric in a song. I had a significant black influence on my life through my step dad and his family and later my wife and her family. I’ve seen amd heard the words used against them amd them saying it amongst eachother. I was even given a talk when I was very young explaining it when I said it.
Stucks and stones they say, well that’s just not true. Words havr power including that one. I can’t really tell if the person in the video is a black person but the context changes.
They’re talking about the use of words derived from ‘negro’ around the world, where they just meant ‘black people’ for centuries. But of course, USians can’t imagine that other cultural contexts than their own exist anywhere, so the language usage must function exactly the same way as it does in the US, right?
Eventually ban of the word made it stay with us forever lmao. Like i hate racial slurs because they exist and lots of things just help prolonging their existance.
And we have like centuries of practice with religious bans on some topics, eventually leading to opposite outcome of what they wanted.
Before chrisitanity nude bodies were not as sexualized as they are nowadays. And the same thing can apply to any kind of slurs.
You serious? The word has been used for a loooong time to demean and dehumanize a hroup of people. It’s only recently been reclaimed by that group of people. The thing is, I a white person saying the word with or without the hard R. Is very different than a black person saying it.
There is no pass, there is no saying it in private or because it’s a lyric in a song. I had a significant black influence on my life through my step dad and his family and later my wife and her family. I’ve seen amd heard the words used against them amd them saying it amongst eachother. I was even given a talk when I was very young explaining it when I said it.
Stucks and stones they say, well that’s just not true. Words havr power including that one. I can’t really tell if the person in the video is a black person but the context changes.
They’re talking about the use of words derived from ‘negro’ around the world, where they just meant ‘black people’ for centuries. But of course, USians can’t imagine that other cultural contexts than their own exist anywhere, so the language usage must function exactly the same way as it does in the US, right?
Eventually ban of the word made it stay with us forever lmao. Like i hate racial slurs because they exist and lots of things just help prolonging their existance. And we have like centuries of practice with religious bans on some topics, eventually leading to opposite outcome of what they wanted. Before chrisitanity nude bodies were not as sexualized as they are nowadays. And the same thing can apply to any kind of slurs.