(January 9, 2014 at 12:10 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I just thought the guy made a good point about WHY the word is offensive, and though I didn't agree with everything he said he's right on about wanting use terms you KNOW will offend people not being okay.
That's fair enough. For what it's worth I agreed with the video right until he started the distinction between white people and black people using the term. He's right in the sense it shouldn't matter to white people whether they are allowed to say it, as any self respecting person wouldn't want to say it. However it is still massively hypocritical to use all that reasoning justifying why it's such an abhorrent word and how it's so offensive, yet make out like there's some exception and that black people can use it 'lovingly'. Whaaat? How does that make any sense if you take into context what he was previously saying about the history of the word.
IMO black people who constantly use the term 'nigger' with reference to themselves and their peers are just as idiotic as white people who use the term in a similar and derogatory manner.
