• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Hey, honest question.

    This comes from this video where Snoop made up that word to insult people who performed at Donald Trump’s inauguration.

    Is it a racially charged word? I thought it was just a made word up by him. If it is, that’s my mistake and I apologize. I didn’t mean any harm to any community.

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      18 hours ago

      https://www.etymonline.com/word/******

      I know that word because I’ve heard it said many a time. I grew up in the racist south and apparently the word is well over a hundred years old, so when Snoop used it against other people, he was trying to say like a worse word than the n word to describe those people.

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        1 day ago

        Ooooof.

        I made a huge mistake. I was completely ignorant of that fact. I’m a dumbass.

        They were right to call me out on it.

        I apologize to everyone.