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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow...some white people are really entitled!!

What's the BFD about wanting to have full reign to use racist terms? Your excuse for wanting to say the "n" word is that blacks use them. So what? What black people do you normally hear using it? I'm black and it's usually the young and loud types that I encounter on the Metro. Do you really want to do and say what they do and say?

Damn...it's really mind-boggling. A person tells you being called chocolate is offensive and the response is "well, calling someone chocolate isn't offensive". WTF. So in the face of the answer, you dismiss it because it doesn't fit your reality?

I just don't get the big deal. What's so hard about calling a black person..........................black? Seriously, no need for other descriptors....black will do. I've never felt the need to call a white person vanilla and I certainly wouldn't argue my right to do it, if a white person told me they found it offensive. [/quote]

YES!!![/quote]

Thank you for expressing this so eloquently. I as a black persons would be offended if an older white woman called me chocolate. For other whites to then try and argue with me on this point, especially when they will NEVER know what it means to be black, or go through my experiences dealing with white privilege, is quite ridiculous. The initial question was asked, and answered. Please accept it, and don't try and put your own spin on it. You will never know our reality, or what these types of labels mean to us.[/quote]

I'm 19:05 and this is what I was trying (not so eloquently) to say.  I'm white FWIW, which isn't much in this context,[b] but it burns my ass when anyone tries to tell another person what is or isn't offensive to another human being[/b].  Hear what they're telling you and shut up.  But agreed, much more eloquently put above.[/quote]

ah, the list of forbidden words gets so long and so muddled combined with the rules of who can say what, that I think you are trying to tell others what is offensive.  just because you say it is offensive, does not mean that is a rational reaction.  we cannot live our lives in fear of offending those with such delicate sensibilities.  stop playing the victim.[/quote]

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