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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, maybe I'm going to come accross as super naive...but how does a child, even at Beauvoirs 3rd grade level, know that word?  I never heard that vile word until I was at least in my mid-teens.[/quote]

other children at school
neighbors
random people yelling something on the street/metro/bus stop/store/etc. (Have you ever walked around the Wisconsin & Albemarle corner after school lets out at Wilson?)

It could be [u]anywhere[/u].  And if the child had never talked with his (or her) parents about the word (which is entirely possible for a child of that age) that he wouldn't even truly understand how incredibly offensive the word is.[/quote]

yes, anywhere else but at home.   and also a child of this age with an above-average iq hasn't a clue as to why the word is offensive.[/quote]

Well that seems completely possible to me.  I have nice friends and if I heard a word like that out of one of their children's mouths I would think the child heard it anywhere BUT at home.  If the child comes from a nice family of course he wouldn't learn it there, and the parents surely have no idea he knows it and have probably never spoken to him about it (thinking he's so young, etc.).  After all there are a LOT of topics parents don't discuss with their 3rd graders.  Just because he has an above-average IQ doesn't mean he understands the social history and psychology of such a loaded word.  He may think he's hip and knowledgeable because it's something he heard on a video of the Dave Chapelle show after all.  [/quote]

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