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This should also demolish the argument that the use of the n-word in music and black culture has in any way "robbed the word of its power." Clearly the word ter
by everdrive 6y ago
This should also demolish the argument that the use of the n-word in music and black culture has in any way "robbed the word of its power." Clearly the word terrifies and offends people, even if this offense is partially performative. It's not a feckless word.
- lupire 6y agoIt doesn't terrify or offend anyone; it's a hall pass to strike at a non-black person.
- sangnoir 6y agoAm I understanding you correctly - do you actually believe the n-word, in its full, uncensored form doesn't offend anyone? This brings to mind the "Say it" scene from The Good Fight: https://youtu.be/S4pSp3Km6Mw?t=66 https://youtu.be/S4pSp3Km6Mw?t=66
- jariel 6y agoNo, this it totally upside down. White teens on a vacation cannot be 'deeply offended by a historically offensive term of subjugation'. The power of the word in this context is not 'material offences' to those who have suffered in slavery - it's 'social offence' invented by the SJ crowd. Children have been taught to 'be offended' and to castigate when they hear the word - so they do. That the word has become political anathema has nothing to do with the depth of it's true offence, rather, it's mostly about the preformative aspects of morality. People are offended by little things, and now we've enabled them to implicate others with a kind of moral judgment. It's the new Blasphemy laws of the Left. "The children told us you said what about Jesus? Heathen!!"
- everdrive 6y agoI don't think my statement disagrees with yours.