raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
some one new wrote:
if we want to advance as a people we need to put certain things behind us and give up this word which is an echo of the slave mentality
Exactly, yet right after that, you give the exact opposite of the smart approach.
If we continue to keep “nigga” or “nigger” as words that NO ONE CAN USE EVAR SUPER BAD WORDS, all that’s going to do is serve as a PERMANENT monument to the days where racism actually WAS prominent in society. You’d basically be turning the word into a time capsule, and whenever it’s opened everyone flips out.
When I hear someone say nigga in a passing way, you know what comes to mind? Not a damn thing, and I bet that the majority of people use the word that way feel the same. But if we continue to bar the word from usage, whenever we hear it we’ll be reminded of a real shithole of a time no one wants to be reminded of.
So basically it comes down to:
A word that was once bad turning into just a regular word no one cares about
or
A word that will forever be known as a monument to the days where people actually were exposed to racism on a regular basis.
raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
Exactly I say nigga all the time in real life and I don’t mean it in a racist way, now saying NIGGER is totally different.
It really doesn’t matter if your not being racist its still an echo of slave mentality.
lol, yeah none of the people I call nigga have ever been slaves, stop living in the past nigga, IDk if you’re black or not but if you are chill the fuck out, if you’re not why the fuck do you care?
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raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
Exactly I say nigga all the time in real life and I don’t mean it in a racist way, now saying NIGGER is totally different.
It really doesn’t matter if your not being racist its still an echo of slave mentality.
You’re only giving the word power...
We can’t forget our history.
Stop acting like you lived that life. You need to put all that behind you. If we can’t forget our history, then I assume that we should all be offended by being called racist slave owners?
raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
Exactly I say nigga all the time in real life and I don’t mean it in a racist way, now saying NIGGER is totally different.
It really doesn’t matter if your not being racist its still an echo of slave mentality.
You’re only giving the word power...
We can’t forget our history.
Stop acting like you lived that life. You need to put all that behind you. If we can’t forget our history, then I assume that we should all be offended by being called racist slave owners?
raep wrote:
Phonetic spelling? You can’t get much more phonetic than “nigger” in regards to the word.
If you don’t like the word that’s one thing, but times are changing, and words and their meanings change. You can choose to stay in the past where the word is a hateful one, but all that’s going to do is lead to unnecessary bawwing when people who aren’t stuck in the 1800’s use the word as it should be: without hate.
It is the phonetic spelling in a southern african american (or ebonics) dialect. Personally I see using that word (especially since its used toward afican americans and people who associate themselves with them) as staying in the past. Most (not all) of the African Americans who use that word are the ones who are less fortunate financially etc. or were raised in that setting in one time in their life.
What does this have to do with anything?
It’s not a hard concept to grasp, a word changing meaning over time. It happens even faster if people don’t resist it.
Exactly I say nigga all the time in real life and I don’t mean it in a racist way, now saying NIGGER is totally different.
It really doesn’t matter if your not being racist its still an echo of slave mentality.
You’re only giving the word power...
We can’t forget our history.
Stop acting like you lived that life. You need to put all that behind you. If we can’t forget our history, then I assume that we should all be offended by being called racist slave owners?
Stop giving the word power.
Those who use it are giving the word power. I know I didn’t live that life, but if you spent time with African Americans you see a trend between people who use that word and living in lower class urban settings at one point in their life or currently, and those who never did live a middle class lifestyle. Of course there are exeptions. Of course its not the word only, sometimes its lifestyle choices and some times its forces beyond their control, but let me put it this way, you Dave Chappelle in the actor’s studio said that they have African Americans have two “languages” “job interview” and “black talk”. Even though some black people use it liberally, they know not to use it in certain situations, why is that? This can be applied to slang in general, but the specifically n — a/n — er word in this situation is taken out.
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raep wrote:
I don’t see anything wrong with using faggot, gay, etc. the way people do.
If there’s no discriminatory intents behind using the word, it shouldn’t be a concern.
Now if someone were to genuinely try to use “faggot” as a derogatory term against gay people, that’d be a different story.
You can’t just slap a word as “BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!", context plays the biggest role in the hatefulness of a word, or more appropriately, the sentence the word is in.
It’s one of the reasons I don’t get why people can’t say “nigga” (unless it’s in the rap thread, which I find to be more racist than someone saying “nigga” in the way it’s come to be known).
