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Douchebag: The White Racial Slur We’ve All Been Waiting For

• pedalpete 12y ago
  Interesting read, but I think the author's theory does not fulfil the definition of a 'racial slur', even by his own definition. Early in the article, Cohen mentions the 'joke', “What do you call a black man with a PhD?...N——r.”, and clearly points out that the racial slur "trumps class, achievement, intelligence, education politics. But throughout his long definition of the 'douchebag', he specifically mentions white men who are, and white men who are not, and how these classifications are placed upon the individual. A black person does not have the ability to look upon a racial slur such as the n-word and say "oh, you don't mean me, I'm not x,y,z". A racial slur is a racial slur because it is demeaning not due to character, but due to nothing other than race.
• BrindsleyQuives 12y ago
  "...Even so, most of these kids are not new to conversations about race; the majority of them are students of color..." and a paragraph or two later "...The 60s era black nationalist terms come out next, usually from one of the all too few black male students in the room..." Phew! — sometimes being determinedly politically correct is nearly as much of a logistical minefield as being an <insert race / religion> supremacist.