Posts: 67189
Threads: 140
Joined: June 28, 2011
Reputation:
162
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2014 at 3:04 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hahaha, did you get the impression that the author of that post -hadn't already referred to plenty of folks as such? That guy knows alot of "niggers"......most of them..most, not all, of course, not being black.
-Excuse me while I go wash my hands and eyes.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Posts: 1965
Threads: 83
Joined: June 15, 2010
Reputation:
37
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm
(July 7, 2014 at 1:56 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You sound like a child trying to tattle when no one cares.
He does that when he thinks he has something to gloat about.
Also, most progressives are pretty unhappy about this too.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
Posts: 13901
Threads: 263
Joined: January 11, 2009
Reputation:
82
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm
(July 7, 2014 at 1:22 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (July 7, 2014 at 1:05 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Are you asking us to not judge peoples opinions based on the words they choose to use?
Should we get them to do interpretive dance and gain their opinion of people by that?
Oh c'mon, you're completely misinterpreting his point there plumb. Someone using the (I'm not going to use it for the sake of being judged) N word doesn't automatically make them a racist. It all depends on context.
Indeed context is key and I do like to think that by banning words you give them power BUT in anything else but discussions on use of that word when would it really be ok?
That word has one use and that is to insult a group of people who have expressed anger at the use of the word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iau-e6HfOg0
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
Posts: 12231
Threads: 324
Joined: April 14, 2011
Reputation:
140
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:10 pm
(July 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Indeed context is key and I do like to think that by banning words you give them power BUT in anything else but discussions on use of that word when would it really be ok?
That word has one use and that is to insult a group of people who have expressed anger at the use of the word.
But in that very video Chris Rock is using the word. It's not racist then is it?
Posts: 10693
Threads: 15
Joined: September 9, 2011
Reputation:
119
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2014 at 3:17 pm by Mister Agenda.)
It at least indicates that the word has more than one use.
But here is what an African American almost always mentally translates the word as when hearing it from someone white: 'don't forget, my people used to own your people'.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Posts: 13901
Threads: 263
Joined: January 11, 2009
Reputation:
82
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:21 pm
(July 7, 2014 at 3:10 pm)Napoléon Wrote: (July 7, 2014 at 3:00 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Indeed context is key and I do like to think that by banning words you give them power BUT in anything else but discussions on use of that word when would it really be ok?
That word has one use and that is to insult a group of people who have expressed anger at the use of the word.
But in that very video Chris Rock is using the word. It's not racist then is it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
Posts: 2471
Threads: 21
Joined: December 7, 2013
Reputation:
43
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(July 7, 2014 at 2:25 pm)Losty Wrote: (July 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm)ShaMan Wrote: "Nigger" is an attitude - NOT a race. Most of the niggers I know are not black. I hope you don't actually ever refer to people as nigger though. That's just awful. Not even in thought. I apply labels where needed. Black is black, and ignorant is ignorant, regardless of race.
Posts: 6896
Threads: 89
Joined: January 13, 2013
Reputation:
116
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:23 pm
This thread is ridiculous.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
![[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]](https://66.media.tumblr.com/5fb74c6d16622fb3dbb358509c9aec03/tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif)
Posts: 67189
Threads: 140
Joined: June 28, 2011
Reputation:
162
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 3:24 pm
I wonder if I can find that show on netflix.......
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
Posts: 6191
Threads: 124
Joined: November 13, 2009
Reputation:
70
RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
July 7, 2014 at 4:23 pm
I avoid using racial, ethnic and sexual slurs when I can.
Not because someone told me to, but because I don't want to invest the effort in handling the inevitable case that someone misperceives me as racist.
This is a game where the best move is not to play.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
|
