"That Word"

Man with the Plan

Man with the Plan

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Do you ever use the word Nigger in commonplace speech? Have you ever used it on purpose, even "accidentally?" Do you toss teh word around with your friends?
 
A couple of years ago, I was stunned by how many suburban white kids drop the N-Bomb -- and not the more "friendly" "nigga", either.

That was when I got Xbox Live. Only on Halo 2, though.
 
I'll use it in hyperbole; if someone uses a word I find offensive (calling something "gay" or "retarded" gets my blood boiling) will usually lead me to making some overtly racist remark. When people stare at me agape, amazed at the lack of social tact I've displayed in all of my offensiveness, I politely remind them that the words they use are not as benign as they seem to think they are.

I'd say 70% of people get the point.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']I'd say 70% of people get the point.[/QUOTE]
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[quote name='mykevermin']I'll use it in hyperbole; if someone uses a word I find offensive (calling something "gay" or "retarded" gets my blood boiling) will usually lead me to making some overtly racist remark. When people stare at me agape, amazed at the lack of social tact I've displayed in all of my offensiveness, I politely remind them that the words they use are not as benign as they seem to think they are.

I'd say 70% of people get the point.[/QUOTE]

I know exactly how you feel. I still don't get why its so socially acceptable to use gay or retarded as a negative.
 
My brother is an honorary blackman so he calls his black friends the N word and they call him the same back.

It is not such a big deal to us but yesterday I went with my brother and his friend to a sports store to look at rifles.

My brother and I are white while his friend is black and slightly thugged out.

We were treated fine and the clerk was insanely disrespectful to my brothers friend.
 
[quote name='Man with the Plan']Do you ever use the word Nigger in commonplace speech? Have you ever used it on purpose, even "accidentally?" Do you toss teh word around with your friends?[/quote]

As commonplace speech? On purpose? By accident? With friends?

No.

I don't want people calling me that so I don't do it to others.

I hate it when any people use it and I hate it even more when black people use it. We should have more sense than that. Just because I'm black doesn't mean some other black person can just walk up to me and say, "What's up n-word!" It's ignorant.

The empowerment excuse is complete bullshit. I have never seen other racial groups do this so why should black people feel the need to do it. I can deal with it, but I hate it.

I have no problem with it being used in entertainment to a certain extent. Chris Rock's "N-Word vs. Black People" is the funniest thing I ever heard. However, that was done in a satirical sense and there was a lot of truth to the routine.

And it doesn't matter if -a or -er is on the end. It's the same thing. If it is then I guess motherfucka and motherfucker have different meanings too.:roll:
 
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The empowerment excuse is complete bullshit. I have never seen other racial groups do this so why should black people feel the need to do it. I can deal with it, but I hate it.[/QUOTE]


I use jewish slurs on my fellow jewish friends all the time. We call each other Kike or heebee. I do think it does empower to some extent, but its not like I would say those words to some random jewish guy.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']I use jewish slurs on my fellow jewish friends all the time. We call each other Kike or heebee. I do think it does empower to some extent, but its not like I would say those words to some random jewish guy.[/quote]

Yeah, but I don't ever recall for example, Jerry Seinfeld using that in a routine and then non-Jewish people using it on other non-Jewish people. Plus, no slur is as well known as the n-word (thank you popular music :roll: ).

I actually had a woman working at a McDonald's look at me after taking my order and said, "You a big n-word aren't you?" I didn't even know the woman and it was unprofessional.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Yeah, but I don't ever recall for example, Jerry Seinfeld using that in a routine and then non-Jewish people using it on other non-Jewish people. Plus, no slur is as well known as the n-word (thank you popular music :roll: ).[/QUOTE]
"All In the Family". ;)
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Yeah, but I don't ever recall for example, Jerry Seinfeld using that in a routine and then non-Jewish people using it on other non-Jewish people. Plus, no slur is as well known as the n-word (thank you popular music :roll: ).[/quote]

Waitaminute, you want to try to tell me that the word "nigger" was a secret until hip-hop? Please.

I actually had a woman working at a McDonald's look at me after taking my order and said, "You a big n-word aren't you?" I didn't even know the woman and it was unprofessional.
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And...? I presume you didn't punch her in her greasy fucking nose, but I would like to know how you reacted.
 
Nothing to do with the N-Bomb, but there was a "Catholic hillbilly" (middle-class kid who thinks he's upper-class, but works in construction and hunts -- tons of these in my town) in the registration office at my college, talking loudly on his celular phone. I was sitting next to him. He says into his phone, loud as Hell, "Yeah... I got a black guy for my History teacher. Probably gonna teach about Civil Rights movement and stuff. fuckin' sucks. I'm at registration to drop the class."
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Waitaminute, you want to try to tell me that the word "nigger" was a secret until hip-hop? Please.



And...? I presume you didn't punch her in her greasy fucking nose, but I would like to know how you reacted.[/quote]

No, but it's casual use exploded with much of popular hip-hop in the 90's. When I was in high school I rarely heard it, but when I got to college it started becoming more prevalent.


I was dumbfounded because this woman said that to me in front of a bunch of people. I shook my head and left. I've never been one to cause a scene. The woman was in her 50's and it's likely that anything I said would have went in one ear and out the other.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']No, but it's casual use exploded with much of popular hip-hop in the 90's. When I was in high school I rarely heard it, but when I got to college it started becoming more prevalent.[/quote]

Oh, p'shaw. It certainly hasn't ever historically been wanting for casual use; it's a different kind of casual use. I won't argue that. But to say it's used more now than before is just wrong, in my view.


I was dumbfounded because this woman said that to me in front of a bunch of people. I shook my head and left. I've never been one to cause a scene. The woman was in her 50's and it's likely that anything I said would have went in one ear and out the other.
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Your choice is your choice. I was just curious, b/c I'm familiar with some interview research by Joe Feagin (one of David Horowitz's 100 most dangerous professors!); he interivewed a lot of middle-class blacks about their experiences with discrimination, and their reactions to situations they clearly identify as conscious discrimination (even though reality can be far more ambiguous than that, as I'm certain you know).
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Oh, p'shaw. It certainly hasn't ever historically been wanting for casual use; it's a different kind of casual use. I won't argue that. But to say it's used more now than before is just wrong, in my view.

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I speak from experience in the county I live in. This is something I have discussed with my sister, family, friends and they all agreed that it's definitely used more in public now. (Maybe overall usage isn't different, including casual private settings, but public usage is higher).

There is a noticable difference from when I left high school and the high schools now. Also, the difference is noticable in the general public. Even my brother-in-law admitted that. He's a part time football coach and couldn't believe how it kids even say it on the pratice field now. During his and my time in high school no one would dare utter that word, even if it was "friendly casual use". Now, even the white kids are called that in front of coaches. I used to never hear it in public and now its common place. It's not just the n-word, cursing in general happens more. People just don't care if they are heard. I even noticed the difference while working at the college. At first it was never said and gradually the n-word was being used so loudly and often that they simply had to shut down the student lounge (this was also after the walls were torn up and furniture destroyed). I guess it could go into the whole "coarsening of society" theory but still...
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Oh, p'shaw. It certainly hasn't ever historically been wanting for casual use; it's a different kind of casual use. I won't argue that. But to say it's used more now than before is just wrong, in my view.[/quote]

You gotta admit it's alot more prevalent and mainstream now than it was. I know it was used alot in the past, but I think it's used more now than ever. Everybody uses the word. I get called a nigger by six-year olds on a daily basis playing Halo 2.
 
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