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those people need to get out of their bubble and realize there's a difference between a word and the intention.

• roughly 5y ago
  I suspect that those people would argue with you that racial issues in this country are hardly a settled matter or history, that even unintentional acts can have consequences, and that a sort of willful blindness to both of those facts helps perpetuate, not solve, issues of racial disparity and injustice in this country.
  • Firmwarrior 5y ago
    Where does it stop, though? At this rate, another 20 years down the line someone is going to be digging up our social media posts and canceling us for saying "the N word" directly instead of more indirectly saying "vicious racial epithets"
    • roughly 5y ago
      I mean, further down the road than here. In addition to casually dropping the N-word, Rogan said some stuff that would've been considered Racist even in the way-back times of 2010 when he said them.
• cultofmetatron 5y ago
  > I suspect that those people would argue with you that racial issues in this country are hardly a settled matter or history, I agree but as brown person who is a first generation immigrant and dealt with racism myself, Banning the utterance of a word used in a fairly clinical context draws attention away from actual systematic racism that exists today. I hate to quote right wingers but this is very much virtue signaling and its dangerous for all te precedents it sets without doing anything that would actually benefit marginalized people.
  • roughly 5y ago
    Agree, but I think it's an And, not an Or. I can't imagine a world in which we've dealt with actual systemic racism in which casual use of the N-word is just sort of fine.