Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Off-Topic
Reply to "Do you use the N word?"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]The PP with the grandmother story about the shoes on the couch made me think of the context in which I heard the n-word growing up in the South in the 1970s and 80s. I heard a fair amount of people---white and black ---use the "N" word, but it was usually directed at criticizing behavior associated with a particular lower SES demographic (slovenly, low morals, lazy, thieving). It certainly had a racial component; however---since the same behaviors exhibited by white people were deemed "trashy" or "rednecky". Actually, I think it is the linkage ---i.e., between race AND a perceived judgment regarding behavior---that makes the N-word the TNT of racial slurs and why it is so inflammatory and painful. It has a double-whammy of both prejudice and negative behavior stereotyping that other ethnic/racial slurs do not necessarily have. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
