the n-word in today's society is the new 'fuck' of conservative societies
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Aella, I don't have a nice way to say this. As someone who respects free thought and even devil's advocacy, you might want to spend a day reading about the history of the word and the brutality of slavery, lynchings, and segregation before dying on this hill.
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Sure, but this feels a bit orthogonal to my point; as in, the n-word has a similar mythical status as the 'fuck' word a few decades ago that feels very independent of the meaning itself. It's heavily symbolic.
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"Fuck" is not born from or continuously used at the expense of an incredibly marginalized group of people. There is no open wound it pokes.
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sure, but like... once i used the n-word while quoting someone i was responding to, talking *about* the n-word, without the hard r, where *clearly* in the context I was defending black people, and that tweet generated a brigade of people demanding I apologize
My point is that the n-word is similar to the f-word (decades ago) where the reaction is to the series of letters itself, completely ignoring any kind of intent or context. The word itself carries the power.
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Why are you expecting fairness or a logical reaction from something related to slavery and oppression based on skin color?
This "paradox" isn't anything new, it's a complicated word. People like Dr. Neil Lester have studied it endlessly.
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Sure, it's not a logical reaction, neither is the reaction people had decades ago to the word 'fuck.' I didn't say I was expecting fairness, I don't expect fairness either from people's attitudes towards 'fuck' decades ago.