"A group of people find a word used to describe themselves to be offensive so it must be offensive". Where is the reasoning there? Oh, don't explain, no need for a history lesson.
[QUOTE=GodKing;23978849]Well, too bad? Ignore it. People say it all around me all the time, they're always going to, it's the very fact that it is such an offensive word that people use it. Am I supposed to let a single word inspire me to anger and violence? You don't hear people using offensive slang from older times. Why? Because they've lost their meaning and people don't care anymore. Now they're just silly words.
It's just a combination of syllables, you give them power.[/QUOTE]
ok so just because someone murders someone we should ignore it because that murderer is going to do it anyway?
it's a word that was made for no reason other than to hurt an entire race
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[QUOTE=Pepin;23978945]"A group of people find a word used to describe themselves to be offensive so it must be offensive". Where is the reasoning there? Oh, don't explain, no need for a history lesson.[/QUOTE]
it's more than "A group" of people, it's an entire race of people
just because you don't find it offensive, doesn't mean other people don't
[QUOTE=GodKing;23978849]Well, too bad? Ignore it. People say it all around me all the time, they're always going to, it's the very fact that it is such an offensive word that people use it.[/QUOTE]
You obviously hang out with a lot of douchebags.
[QUOTE=GodKing;23978849] Am I supposed to let a single word inspire me to anger and violence? You don't hear people using offensive slang from older times. Why? Because they've lost their meaning and people don't care anymore. Now they're just silly words.[/QUOTE]
Who the fuck are you to decide what a word means to the majority of people?
It's pretty undeniable that the term was historically used as a demeaning racial slur and the context behind the phrase is usually racist. That's a pretty valid meaning for a word being defined as offensive, especially when it's still used as a derogatory term today.
[QUOTE=GodKing;23978849]It's just a combination of syllables, you give them power.[/QUOTE]
That applies to [I]all [/I]words.
Freedom and rights are just words, power is just a word, combination of syllables are a series of words until you understand the meaning behind them and the context of their use.
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[QUOTE=Pepin;23978945]"A group of people find a word used to describe themselves to be offensive so it must be offensive". Where is the reasoning there? Oh, don't explain, no need for a history lesson.[/QUOTE]
No pal.
Just no.
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[QUOTE=Mobzor;23960738]Well it's not, besides the amount of black people that throw the word around proves it's not offensive.[/QUOTE]
The race that uses the term is a pretty big deal because of the fact that it's most commonly known as a racial slur.
[QUOTE=JerryK;23979024]it's more than "A group" of people, it's an entire race of people
just because you don't find it offensive, doesn't mean other people don't[/QUOTE]
And now what argument are you making? I'm not at all arguing that people don't find the word offensive.
What I was doing was just showing the reasoning in your argument. Also, why did you need to make it an entire race of people? Does it make your argument any different at all?
[QUOTE=Billiam;23979055]No pal.
Just no.[/QUOTE]
If I have no valid point at all you should be able to easily make a retort.
[QUOTE=Mobzor;23960061]That source sure doesn't look reliable.
What news source would write that in their articles?
Besides, as far as I know, the term "nigger" is just slang for black right?[/QUOTE]
Uhh, what the fuck man it means slave, or "black slave". It's negro that means black.
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You can't just say a word isn't offensive, it entirely depends on the contect its being used in. Hell pig isn't an offensive word, but if you call someone a pig it can be translated as offensive. Its all about the context of use.
[QUOTE=dannass;23964767]meh, Black people use the n word all the time so it cant be THAT offensive anymore.
Just listen to this.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7l43D9xZA0[/media][/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmoOt_uibS4[/url]
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;23985125]You can't just say a word isn't offensive, it entirely depends on the contect its being used in. Hell pig isn't an offensive word, but if you call someone a pig it can be translated as offensive. Its all about the context of use.[/QUOTE]
Sure, but pig wasn't exacly supposed to be an offensive word from the beginning, nigger was. If I call someone a nigger, that's offensive, if I call someone a pig that's also offensive, but I mean pig is a neutral term for an animal, nigger is an offensive term for a race.
Sand nigger terrorist... I lol'd.
[QUOTE=Assburgers;23987069]Sand nigger terrorist... I lol'd.[/QUOTE]
True.....True.
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;23986985]Sure, but pig wasn't exacly supposed to be an offensive word from the beginning, nigger was. If I call someone a nigger, that's offensive, if I call someone a pig that's also offensive, but I mean pig is a neutral term for an animal, nigger is an offensive term for a race.[/QUOTE]
Wasn't nigger just an english interpretation of the word 'negro'?
Yes, but still, why call a race niggers out of al you can say, then?
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;23988358]Yes, but still, why call a race niggers out of al you can say, then?[/QUOTE]
Whitey, cracker, honkey....although in hind sight. These insults seem almost childish :v:
Why is it okay for African Americans to refer to other African Americans as the n-word?
I've always wondered that. And no I am not trying to be racist. Just curious.
[QUOTE=JerryK;23979024]ok so just because someone murders someone we should ignore it because that murderer is going to do it anyway?
it's a word that was made for no reason other than to hurt an entire race
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it's more than "A group" of people, it's an entire race of people
just because you don't find it offensive, doesn't mean other people don't[/QUOTE]
Uh, no, that's completely retarded. Murder means ending a life, hearing a couple of syllables is entirely different. How you came to the idea of comparing the two is beyond me.
[QUOTE=CrazyMoron;23993420]Why is it okay for African Americans to refer to other African Americans as the n-word?
I've always wondered that. And no I am not trying to be racist. Just curious.[/QUOTE]
Well, in my opinion it's just as okey as a white man referring to a black man as a nigger, but I do not encourage anyone to say so.
Black people call black people niggers all the time, but if a white person says it, there's a massive uproar. Just seems stupid to me.
Let me get this straight. It's illegal to say offensive things in Australia?
[QUOTE=CrazyMoron;23993420]Why is it okay for African Americans to refer to other African Americans as the n-word?
I've always wondered that. And no I am not trying to be racist. Just curious.[/QUOTE]
Uh, race has a lot to do with race-words.
I dont think its offensive at all, unless its used in a racist fashion. If its used playfully then why should anyone care?
If the persons INTENTION is to offend then that person is in the wrong. Not the guy who says 'What up? N*gga.'
[QUOTE=CrazyMoron;23993420]Why is it okay for African Americans to refer to other African Americans as the n-word?
I've always wondered that. And no I am not trying to be racist. Just curious.[/QUOTE]
Because of a double standard that our society has developed. Basically, a while ago white people called black people out as niggers in pure racism. Eventually, black people started using nigga as a term to describe themselves as brothers, and since white people have a different skin and are outside of that brotherhood that is how the double standard started basically. Why everyone can't just agree to let that double standard die out is beyond me though.
[QUOTE=Pepin;23979667]If I have no valid point at all you should be able to easily make a retort.[/QUOTE]
The problem is you don't have a valid point.
A group of people find a word offensive, so it's offensive. Yeah, that's how getting offended works.
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[QUOTE=thisispain;23978502]michael eric dyson is the king in all n-word junk[/QUOTE]
I like this guy.
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[QUOTE=EvilShadow777;23998330]Because of a double standard that our society has developed. Basically, a while ago white people called black people out as niggers in pure racism. Eventually, black people started using nigga as a term to describe themselves as brothers, and since white people have a different skin and are outside of that brotherhood that is how the double standard started basically. Why everyone can't just agree to let that double standard die out is beyond me though.[/QUOTE]
It's not really a double standard since you just explained there was a difference in historical context between races.
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