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animekid
I Tried reading that two or three times but I'm still not sure if dagger is saying he supports people saying nigga despite it being a racial word as long as they claim they mean it endearingly or if he's saying that it's not acceptable because it really shouldn't be no matter what your term of endearment is.
chocopyro
@Animekid: As my friends Rashad and Zuki explained it, "Nigga" is not the same word as "Nigger". It's derived from the same word of course. Like I wouldn't go around throwing either of those words, since we aren't socially at that point where white people have fully acknowledged the systemic racial injustice in this country. (Thinks like voting suppression. gerrymandering, and unfair gun laws for example). But think of it more like a social statement of camaraderie. Like "I recognize the shit you go through, because I'm there as well." Again, another example of taking the hate out of a word and making it your own.
whispywoods
Dec 06, 18 at 10:01pm
"I don't know what to tell you..." *proceeds to write a book*
napalmamaterasu
Basically the point of OP was not everything "crosses a line" (or boundary) which a highly vocal segment of the populace seems to think nearly anything crosses a line. Whether something truly crosses a line is on a case by case basis. People should be free to express themselves but it is one thing to be able to express oneself its another thing entirely for that expression to be contingent on not being challenged or questioned in any way. People should have freedom of choice - not consequence. This very concept is very key to OP's argument. SJW's are completely oblivious to this. SJW's (the stereotypical pejorative) act as if challenging what is expressed is equal to suppressing the expression to begin with. It is humorous that the more someone is for "allowing free expression" the more that they want to curtail exactly that in opposing viewpoints.
animekid
I get that some words people are trying to make their own and all of that and I agree we are not at the point where we can accept certain things. If people say certain words in private with their specific friend groups where only those people are aware of it such as private messages or when you are in your own home or their home then that's one thing though if a word is born out of racism or created from a word that was born from racism and is obvious where that word came from, I believe that it's inappropriate no matter who uses the word. Case in point, nigga or nibba. A big argument I would use against those words or any other racial words a big argument I would use against those words or any other words that were born in a similar way is the fact that I can see the race, for example black people and the word Nigger with the word born from it, nibba or Nigga. I have had black people try to tell me that it's okay and it's not racist or offencive, I just had a black person tell me that it's impossible for a black person to mean it offensively which is idiotic but I have seen people of the same race it's supposed to be offencive to claim that their version isn't offencive while I see their own race use it offensively against their own race. That is why I say if it's something like that and you use it privately with your group of friends where no one else is aware of it then that's one thing but unless everybody can use it without hate or violent response from anywhere then I believe the base word and any derivatives, if I'm using that word correctly, should be considered just as much off-limits by everyone else. As they say, you can't have your cake and eat it too. My apologies for how unorganized all of that was, it was a little difficult for me to get my thoughts across coherently.
chocopyro
Dec 06, 18 at 10:36pm
Alright. Let's call me a social activist then. From my experience as a social activist, I have been called an SJW so many times. Not because I'm interrupting or suppressing viewpoints, merely that I try to convey my viewpoints and the viewpoints of people who may have more to say on whatever subject. Trust me, SJW is a box that people just throw on you when your opinion is inconvenient for them, and they don't want to listen to you. Much in the same way certain people in the liberal party like to throw MAGA hat wearers as "All white nationalists and nazis." (Now as a fomrer skater punk and teenage anarchist who has actually interacted with neo nazi skinheads, I have more context on how to identify them. But I digress.) My point is, I've been called SJW enough times merely as a convenience to end a debate that I've kinda just been like "Okay, sure. Let's go with that."
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chocopyro
Dec 06, 18 at 10:42pm
@Animekid: You bring some valid points, but again. We're weebs and nerds. We have the right to call each other weebs and nerds. It's a right we have earned because we know what it's like to be called a nerd, a geek, a weeb, and other derogatory terms aimed against us. And calling another nerd a nerd is just a way of expressing camaraderie through.
kichigai913
How bout I, a black man, end speculation? Stop saying/typing nigga/nigger in any shape, form or fashion. It's not ok. Whoever said it was ok was lying or uninformed or misinformed. Don't. It's not ok. Don't ask why I can say it and you can't. That's not the point nor is it relevant. You are not me so stop comparing shit I do to shit you do.
chocopyro
Dec 06, 18 at 10:43pm
@God Emperor Daggerfella: Pfft The master of walls of texts tells me my wall of text is too long. I think I've ascended. XD
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