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Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
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RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point?
(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



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RE: Is it ever right to use a racial slur to make a point? - by downbeatplumb - July 7, 2014 at 3:21 pm

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