Posted on 08/14/2013 2:43:56 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
We've decided to take a weekly look at a word or phrase that's caught our attention, whether for its history, usage, etymology or just because it has an interesting story.
NOTE TO READERS: This is a post about one of the harshest racial slurs in American English. In the interest of forthrightness, we're going to use the slur throughout this essay. In other words, you'll see "nigger" used throughout the essay. We understand that the word is upsetting, so we wanted to offer people a chance to opt out now
You can set your watch to it. Every few months, some person of note gets in trouble for saying nigger. This summer's been especially busy: In the last eight weeks, we've had controversies involving former NFL player Hugh Douglas, current NFL player Riley Cooper, Trayvon Martin's friend Rachel Jeantel, the comedian Tim Allen and disgraced TV food personality Paula Deen.
After each incident, after the perfunctory opprobrium is directed at the person who initially used the word, comes the invariable call for everyone — particularly in hip-hop — to stop using the word nigger. But I always wonder, given its widespread use (and the myriad ways in which people use it): How would stamping it out even work?
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
How would YOU kill the n-word?
How do you kill a word that comes out of black peoples mouths every 30 seconds?
Have they ever heard a rap song?
How would YOU kill the n-word?
I would use Gulags to punish only whiteys that used it, you know like a good statuist liberal....
-sarcastic response...
I’d mock the hell out of blacks because they have a glass jaw when it comes to being criticized and mocked. If someone actually thinks that they’re as good as me then they’d DEMAND to be held to the same standard as me. Only that way can you claim to be a man.
Stop making a big deal of it?
Bleep it out of all the rap crap songs before they can be released?
I like how you think.
Ding, ding. We have a winner. Take away its power, and nobody cares. Flipping out everytime a white person says, or supposedly says it, gives it power.
Meshuge, for sure.
Is the N-word NPR? If so, I’d kill it by defunding it.
Remember when a city official used the word “niggardly?”
If he was beating my head into the pavement for instance, I’d use what ever was handy.
The best thing people could do with that word is to have it refer to a state of mind more than anything else.
Bed wetting liberalism at its finest.
I'd change the initials to LPR (Liberal Public Radio).
The idea of killing the N word is so gay.
Get black people to stop using it! I live in the south and have many redneck friends and we just don’t use it anymore and haven’t for a very long time.
Is it still a commonly used word in the liberal states?
A better question would be “How would you rewrite that headline, NPR?”
If a conservative publication had used it, they’d be attacked for a lynching reference. And you know it’s true.
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