Posted on 09/03/2013 9:15:54 AM PDT by lbryce
A federal jury has rejected the argument that use of the N-word among blacks can be a culturally acceptable term of love and endearment, deciding its use in the workplace is hostile and discriminatory no matter what.
Jurors last week awarded $250,000 in compensatory damages to a black employment agency worker who was the target of an N-word-laced rant by her black boss, and they return to a Manhattan federal court Tuesday to decide on punitive damages.
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They are just testing the water to see gullible the white person is.
Why I’ve been known to use it as a term of endearment for or dear Supreme Leader from time to time...
What about Cracker. How about pumpernickel. As in it seems a lot more crackers are being attacked by groups of pumpernickles than before THE FOREIGNER was elected.
No matter what context, or who uses this word it’s wrong from a moral standpoint. OTOH, when the courts get involved with what words should or should not be uttered, this is potentially very dangerous territory. We don’t need legally sanctioned speech codes. One of the rare times I’ve ever agreed with Nate Perlmutter, fmr director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith was when he said NOT to censor or crimilize speech that’s “hateful” or disgusting. The best way to deal with it is to challenge and fight it with MORE speech.
Blacks calling each other by this term just re-enforces that many blacks are indeed living incarnations of every negative connotations this word represents.
If you have so little respect for yourself and your race that you throw this word around you truly are a living example of the very definition of the word.
As far as I’m concerned. You are showing no respect for yourself or your race, and as such will get none from anyone else.
...ping....
Small victory. It won’t change the big problem - the word is a trap for Whites. If Whites say it, they’re racist. If blacks say it, it’s perfectly OK because of years of oppression, slavery, trayvon martin, etc etc.
Hey, can I sue if one calls me a creepy azzed cracker? More importantly, can I win? Naw, didn’t think so.
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