Tea Age Sea
_Morgane Fay_
Tea Age Sea
_Morgane Fay_
Well, unless I got trapped in a time vortex, it's still 2010.
To the OP:
this is how incredibly
edgy and
novel your idea is.
Look! Halfway there to a bingo.
About half of
these apply to you, too. Your radically unique way of thinking rocks my world.
It's certainly not the first time someone has posted something like this. So why do you respond to it? You're not making me feel any different on my stance. You know that my point is that taboo words should be abolished - the only reason why someone should get offended when I say n****r is because they are reacting to it in a negative fashion or because I've actually called them less than human which I have never done and will never do. And the n****r spam does very well for attracting attention - especially the type of crowd I'm looking for. Zealots who assume I'm just another over privileged white person who is whining about not being able to casually walk up to black people and call them spear chuckers. They don't seem to understand I am talking about using n****r in appropriate situations. -
Such as saying n****r when reading Huckleberry finn, or Diary of a drug fiend,
Or saying n***a to your black friends,
Or calling your girl buds Nigglets.
To some people I realize it will never be appropriate to use it. That is a problem they need to work out with themselves I suppose. Something about letting go of hatred and fear and all that junk.
But you know, it's Gaia. Whatever.
No matter your noble intentions, your arguments put you squarely in the company of racism apologists - as I showed with those links. Words Mean Things. Things Have History.
If you are white, it is not your place to decide (as member of the privileged class) which words "should" be offensive or acceptable to the marginalized class. It is not your place to decide that they should just stop taking it all so
personally and stop being so
sensitive and how
mean those black people are stifling your freedom of
speeeeeech. {Hey, does that sound familiar? I wonder why.}
Reclaiming those words, if you were thinking of backpedaling in that direction, is not your place. And just by the way, assuming that "spear chuckers" is the end all be all of all racist remarks shows a profound lack of understanding just what the hell you are talking about.
I am white, I benefit from white privilege and I recognize that that position entails that I Do Not Get To Use some words. Tough tittie. Deal.
Just what I need. Another white person telling me it's not my place to act a certain way towards the Nergo people.
I never mentioned black people needing to get over me calling them n****r - because I have never called a black person a n****r and I don't use my words like an old southern racist. White people give me s**t for it, for not being a good privileged little white girl and bending over backwards for ridiculous social norms.
I have never offended a black person in person by saying n***a or Negro or n****r because I am a very understanding, kind, and humorous person. On the internet it's a different story, but on the internet you can't see the color of someone's skin - so you aren't as cautious about who you say the Magic Word to.
I usually make an effort to explain and apologize to black people or people who are offended, and if they still have a problem with me - that's their fault. They need to get over it.
Right.
And that's where your blinding privilege and rubbing elbows with racism apology comes in. SEE ABOVE.
You do know that racism entails more than donning a pointy hat and burning crosses, right? Your garden variety of racism may be comparatively meek and victim-less, but that *really* does not count as a defence when people call you out on it. [General you]
What you call "bending over backwards for ridiculous social norms" is really just plain old-fashioned courtesy. Why would you make an issue out of your perceived entitlement to use a word that for
many people connotes hatred, persecution, violence and more?
And don't mistake me; I know what you're trying to get at. I know you think this is a very clever proposal to dilute the meaning of the word, thus counteracting the taboo. Again - not novel. Not unique. Not edgy. It may yet happen, someday, but you are not going to be the one forcing the issue. You are just going to look like a big 'ole racist (or a racist-elbow-rubber, whichever you prefer) with your privilege hanging out for the world to see, no matter how much you protest you're not. Again, tough tittie. Deal.
