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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are not missing the point. You’re just not hearing us. Is it suddenly okay to say this word as a white person because you give a warning first? That’s silly.

I can understand this older teacher maybe thought it was okay. For the work!  The rules don’t apply in the classroom somehow when a black author wrote the word, and because the author’s point is that language has power!

Okay, but language has power!  You are still an old white guy saying this word in a classroom with kids, and you are the one in that room with power as their teacher. The fact that language has power is exactly the point. You reading that word as a white teacher regardless of the wishes of your students is claiming a power over them whether you fully intend it or not.

When folks were railing against wokeness, I didn’t think the issues would be this basic. This is stuff that I as a white person understood at least 15 years ago. Seriously wtf?[/quote]

"Claiming a power" is bs here.

Language has power, and language is only language.  The word is used in a work of fiction by fictional third parties.  No one in the room is calling anyone a name; no one in the room is a target.  It is a discussion in the appropriate context of a literature class.  No one is using the word gratuitously or maliciously.

Everyone should be capable of discussing that scenario.  If we can't hold such a discussion, we are doomed.[/quote]

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