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Specifically this part : "Non-black Americans are not commonly accepted into this community" Also the fact people keep writing "the n word", "the word but with
by arkh 7y ago
Specifically this part : "Non-black Americans are not commonly accepted into this community"
Also the fact people keep writing "the n word", "the word but with an a" feels like communicating with children. Just write nigger or nigga and be done. The sky won't fall. You can't analyze or criticize something you can't name. Especially when forbidden words change every 10 to 15 years because people will just start using other common ones as insults. A simple example would be how "despite", "kings" and "queens" were used to mock black people (not just north-american one) on r/cringeanarchy (which ban must be why this was reposted).
- freehunter 7y agoSome people aren't comfortable saying the word, I don't know if anything you can say would change that. The only purpose of the word, from my perspective, is to hurt someone else. You can say it all you want in whatever manner you want, but I won't because I know it can only hurt the people who hear it. All I was trying to do was to explain to a non-American how Americans view the word. The wrong person saying it to the right person could easily get that speaker killed, that's the power the word has in some communities. You can say it online all you want and you can argue that it doesn't have power, but there are many neighborhoods in America where saying it with an "a" or with an "r" will result in a murder that no witnesses will corroborate.