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Anonymous wrote:I think if we want the word n**** struck from the English language, it should start with black folk setting an example.

Reprehensible song, but stop with the double-standard on that word please.

The lesson here is that it's not fair that white people don't get to use the word but black people do? Really?

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Anonymous wrote:The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.

Yeah, right. He's the bad guy. Guys like this never end up doing anyone any harm.

They also end up growing up.

Which just means they'll be more discreet with their bigotry

eh. I personally feel sorry for any dumbass young kid who gets labeled anything, even if apparently deserved, at the age of 19 when drunk and immature. Social media sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if we want the word n**** struck from the English language, it should start with black folk setting an example.

Reprehensible song, but stop with the double-standard on that word please.

Totally agree.

Yes because AAs are the ones who created the word and are responsible for whites using it to degrade them. GTFOWTBS!

Say what?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.

Yeah, right. He's the bad guy. Guys like this never end up doing anyone any harm.

They also end up growing up.

Which just means they'll be more discreet with their bigotry

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.

Yeah, right. He's the bad guy. Guys like this never end up doing anyone any harm.

They also end up growing up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.

Yeah, right. He's the bad guy. Guys like this never end up doing anyone any harm.

Anonymous wrote:The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.

Anonymous wrote:The person who took the video and ruined the lives of some extraordinary immature drunk young men should have the courage to identify themselves. Yes they are idiots and likely racist. But public shaming in front of 300 million seems like too much.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that one of the first rules we learn as kids is that you don't do or say something just because others do. However, when it comes to the use of the N word, that lesson is thrown away. I guess some people just really want to find a reason to use it.

that is naive. I'm a white male in my 40s. When I was in my early 20s, all of my favorite songs and movies were littered with the N word. Talking about Snoop, Dre, NWA, Cube for music. Maybe some Ghetto Boys and Bushwhack Bill. And for movies - maybe Pulp Fiction, etc.

It was a huge part of my vocabulary only because I mimicked what I heard constantly.

Then you were an idiot. I am of your generation, had these same cultural influences, but still had the common sense to know that I could not appropriate that pattern of speech.

+1

I'm baffled that any white person in our generation thinks it's ok to use the n-word.

It's somewhat similar (thought I think to a lesser degree, without or at least with a different kind of history) to women using terms like 'bitches.' Women referring to their friends as 'my bitches' may be a bit tasteless, but it's FAR more ok to for women to use it in a positive sense, regarding themselves, than men referring to women as bitches.

The degree is different and I don't mean to compare the term "bitch" to the n-word, but I think it's in a somewhat similar vein.

In general, people adopt derogatory terms used about their own group all the time, and try and "own" the term themselves in large part to reconfigure the power of the word, and take back at least part of the definition.

I don't understand that. Most of my favorite expressions come from somewhere. Do you sing out loud to songs? I do the same with rap. When you sing along to f the police, say you were alone, do you say the n word or do you literally censor yourself in your brain?

yes, and shake my head in pity

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that one of the first rules we learn as kids is that you don't do or say something just because others do. However, when it comes to the use of the N word, that lesson is thrown away. I guess some people just really want to find a reason to use it.

that is naive. I'm a white male in my 40s. When I was in my early 20s, all of my favorite songs and movies were littered with the N word. Talking about Snoop, Dre, NWA, Cube for music. Maybe some Ghetto Boys and Bushwhack Bill. And for movies - maybe Pulp Fiction, etc.

It was a huge part of my vocabulary only because I mimicked what I heard constantly.

Then you were an idiot. I am of your generation, had these same cultural influences, but still had the common sense to know that I could not appropriate that pattern of speech.

+1

I'm baffled that any white person in our generation thinks it's ok to use the n-word.

It's somewhat similar (thought I think to a lesser degree, without or at least with a different kind of history) to women using terms like 'bitches.' Women referring to their friends as 'my bitches' may be a bit tasteless, but it's FAR more ok to for women to use it in a positive sense, regarding themselves, than men referring to women as bitches.

The degree is different and I don't mean to compare the term "bitch" to the n-word, but I think it's in a somewhat similar vein.

In general, people adopt derogatory terms used about their own group all the time, and try and "own" the term themselves in large part to reconfigure the power of the word, and take back at least part of the definition.

I don't understand that. Most of my favorite expressions come from somewhere. Do you sing out loud to songs? I do the same with rap. When you sing along to f the police, say you were alone, do you say the n word or do you literally censor yourself in your brain?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting that one of the first rules we learn as kids is that you don't do or say something just because others do. However, when it comes to the use of the N word, that lesson is thrown away. I guess some people just really want to find a reason to use it.

that is naive. I'm a white male in my 40s. When I was in my early 20s, all of my favorite songs and movies were littered with the N word. Talking about Snoop, Dre, NWA, Cube for music. Maybe some Ghetto Boys and Bushwhack Bill. And for movies - maybe Pulp Fiction, etc.

It was a huge part of my vocabulary only because I mimicked what I heard constantly.

Then you were an idiot. I am of your generation, had these same cultural influences, but still had the common sense to know that I could not appropriate that pattern of speech.

+1

I'm baffled that any white person in our generation thinks it's ok to use the n-word.

It's somewhat similar (thought I think to a lesser degree, without or at least with a different kind of history) to women using terms like 'bitches.' Women referring to their friends as 'my bitches' may be a bit tasteless, but it's FAR more ok to for women to use it in a positive sense, regarding themselves, than men referring to women as bitches.

The degree is different and I don't mean to compare the term "bitch" to the n-word, but I think it's in a somewhat similar vein.

In general, people adopt derogatory terms used about their own group all the time, and try and "own" the term themselves in large part to reconfigure the power of the word, and take back at least part of the definition.