(April 28, 2019 at 4:59 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(April 28, 2019 at 4:55 pm)madog Wrote: Are you saying there was only one victim?
In that video?... One ended in the hospital, the others heard a word at a decibel level that was not even uncomfortable. Totally similar outcomes, huh?
I'm easily one of this forum's biggest proponents for not treating words like they carry too much weight. Get called a twatwaffle? Suck it up, sugar tits. That kind of stuff is just nonsense. The n-word is linked to fucking centuries of slavery, abuse, dehumanization, disenfranchisement, engineered poverty and so fucking much more. You might argue that today's black people have never been slaves, and I would say that is correct, but remember that you can separate slavery from this generation by two long lifetimes. It's the kind of shit that sits in the collective memory. Black people are raised knowing that it wasn't long at all since some of the white population treated them worse than I treat my animals. Then, you have the deep racism we've fought to shake since then. This is a very weighty word, even to those of us who toss out offensive words like candy. Should saying it get you punched? Maybe not, but you're definitely being disingenuous when you say it's just a word at a comfortable decibel. You know it too.
