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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way this discussion has twisted and turned is why self-segregation occurs. Why can't everyone not use extremely offensive words, especially ones that have been used against racial groups, women, gays?

And I can hear the response - "my son can say whatever he wants wherevere he wants and you can just keep your lily-white boy away" - but what does that get us as an overall society? Economic and educational parity? Political understanding? Empathy?

SMH - it all seems hopeless sometimes.[/quote]
Then what is hopeless is your lack of understanding nuanced, complicated issues and common sense.

Thanks Tho![/quote]

Too flip and a very lame response. If you've got a point to make besides and insult, make it. Otherwise, this sort of response serves no purpose whatsoever. NP here, btw.  I'm following this discussion but see very few helpful or instructive responses here.  While I fall into the "you're just not allowed to say it" camp and that's what I tell my DD (who is too young to fully grasp all of the reasons why) simply dismissing the opposite views or people who aren't as "nuanced" as you purport to be is a really ineffective tool. [/quote]
I was responding to a flip, nonsensical comment and responded in kind.
Yet, you added no explanation or further "nuance"  that you accuse me of not providing(as if that was my obligation).
But just for giggles, how about this:

I have little patience for people who have no understanding of why they cannot do everything that other people do. 
While there is room for copious debate among AA people about the  context, historical and current implications, impact and validity  of the usage of the word "nigger",
that debate is NO WHERE insinuated,  inferred, or otherwise present in a comment squarely and solely centered in the "if you can, so can I" perspective.
There are things that SOME Jewish people MAY do or say that is an element of their cultural/ethnic/religious commonalities and the relationships thereof.
The same may be said of Vietnamese people or gay and transgendered people.
Hell! There are things that you  say or do with your spouse that are solely and unequivocally a privilege of the relationship that you two have.
I DON'T GET TO, NOR DO I WANT TO have that same privilege.
That is your relationship, that is their kinship, let them HAVE IT.
I don't need to do what everyone else is doing in order to feel valued, valuable or acknowleged.
In a nutshell, 'Everything AIN'T for 'erebody'. And if you cannot comprehend that, then, as the old folks say, "I can show you better than I can tell you"
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Dumb pp here - I just don't get why, in 2017, "'erebody'" thinks that using offensive words publicly that upset others, regardless of who the others are, is acceptable. Posting is public. Shouting across the basketball court is public. [/quote]

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