Why is saying n****r STILL considered offensive?

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themanoverthere

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Its called "allowing the past to control your future"
or "not leaving things in the past"
or "refusing to accept change in word definitions and change in the world"

I have ran into a similar situation with a friend cause they were acting silly, and I said back in a joking manner "you are acting like such a f*****t lol"
They said back "PLEASE, do not use that word in from of me"
I was confused, because I never knew it to really be a insult of any kind.
Why is that?

I used to have a gay friend that called people that act silly "faggots" all the time. He taught me that that was what the word could be used for, calling someone that acts silly a "f*****t"
How is it a insult again?

Then again, I am not saying that when a incident happens that we should just roll over it and ignore it....but it shouldn't hang around forever.

Of course, people that have a personal attachment due to loss to that kind of stuff are understandable. That is a different story altogether.

I don't get it... you say meanings change, yet there are still bigoted people running around using their freedom of speech to degrade and harass others with such words whose meanings supposedly changed when hispters appropriated them... neutral

Shut up and learn what words mean to star with. n****r means stupid or ignorant.

Yes it does mean stupid and ignorant, but that's only part of its meaning. The whole meaning of the word was based on how and what Whites thought of Blacks--subhuman, stupid, ignorant and all manner of hateful things. n****r is a word that people like you are desperately trying to legitimize by pretending the racial context doesn't exist anymore if you recognize at all. neutral

I don't remember ever saying any of that?????

How convenient. Keep washing your hands clean of it... neutral

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Its called "allowing the past to control your future"
or "not leaving things in the past"
or "refusing to accept change in word definitions and change in the world"

I have ran into a similar situation with a friend cause they were acting silly, and I said back in a joking manner "you are acting like such a f*****t lol"
They said back "PLEASE, do not use that word in from of me"
I was confused, because I never knew it to really be a insult of any kind.
Why is that?

I used to have a gay friend that called people that act silly "faggots" all the time. He taught me that that was what the word could be used for, calling someone that acts silly a "f*****t"
How is it a insult again?

Then again, I am not saying that when a incident happens that we should just roll over it and ignore it....but it shouldn't hang around forever.

Of course, people that have a personal attachment due to loss to that kind of stuff are understandable. That is a different story altogether.

I don't get it... you say meanings change, yet there are still bigoted people running around using their freedom of speech to degrade and harass others with such words whose meanings supposedly changed when hispters appropriated them... neutral

Shut up and learn what words mean to star with. n****r means stupid or ignorant.

Yes it does mean stupid and ignorant, but that's only part of its meaning. The whole meaning of the word was based on how and what Whites thought of Blacks--subhuman, stupid, ignorant and all manner of hateful things. n****r is a word that people like you are desperately trying to legitimize by pretending the racial context doesn't exist anymore if you recognize at all. neutral

I don't remember ever saying any of that?????

How convenient. Keep washing your hands clean of it... neutral

Am I know?
I can just see a word for what it is, JUST A WORD.

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Shut up and learn what words mean to star with. n****r means stupid or ignorant.

Yes it does mean stupid and ignorant, but that's only part of its meaning. The whole meaning of the word was based on how and what Whites thought of Blacks--subhuman, stupid, ignorant and all manner of hateful things. n****r is a word that people like you are desperately trying to legitimize by pretending the racial context doesn't exist anymore if you recognize at all. neutral

I don't remember ever saying any of that?????

How convenient. Keep washing your hands clean of it... neutral

Am I know?
I can just see a word for what it is, JUST A WORD.

Yes. It is a word. How very clever of you. It is also word that you can claim is just a word when it suits you. Interesting no? neutral

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Shut up and learn what words mean to star with. n****r means stupid or ignorant.

Yes it does mean stupid and ignorant, but that's only part of its meaning. The whole meaning of the word was based on how and what Whites thought of Blacks--subhuman, stupid, ignorant and all manner of hateful things. n****r is a word that people like you are desperately trying to legitimize by pretending the racial context doesn't exist anymore if you recognize at all. neutral

I don't remember ever saying any of that?????

How convenient. Keep washing your hands clean of it... neutral

Am I know?
I can just see a word for what it is, JUST A WORD.

Yes. It is a word. How very clever of you. It is also word that you can claim is just a word when it suits you. Interesting no? neutral

No its always just a word. Now how you use that word is up to you.