The intense use of the N-word among blacks, ending in -igga was intended to have the word repeated as often as possible so that any stigma attached to it would be rendered meaningless. Whites attempting to use the N-word in the same form of so-called endearment would get no such exoneration, a word deemed every bit as verboten, racist as N-word classic ending in -igger.
1 posted on
09/03/2013 9:15:54 AM PDT by
lbryce
To: lbryce
All of these head games about who can say what and how it can and can't be said is an intimidation game by blacks.
They are just testing the water to see gullible the white person is.
2 posted on
09/03/2013 9:22:36 AM PDT by
oldbrowser
(We have a rogue government in Washington)
To: lbryce
Well, I am sure this will be overturned.
I can just see the Appeals Court decision now:
"This court will not stand for the First Amendment rights of Blackafricanmericanperzonsofcolor being infringed upon. Not after all their sufferings to affirm them." Or something.
3 posted on
09/03/2013 9:24:51 AM PDT by
Tupelo
(There are no Republicans or Democrats in Washington. Just Millionaires protecting their turf.)
To: lbryce
Why I’ve been known to use it as a term of endearment for or dear Supreme Leader from time to time...
4 posted on
09/03/2013 9:31:50 AM PDT by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
To: lbryce
6 posted on
09/03/2013 9:37:43 AM PDT by
onedoug
To: lbryce
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.
7 posted on
09/03/2013 9:40:22 AM PDT by
Impala64ssa
(You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
To: lbryce
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.
To: lbryce
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.
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