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Even though that power is only the power to demand the most basic interpersonal respect.
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White people insist on their right to say the n-word because to do otherwise would be to allow black people some power over them.
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To allow them even that is a challenge to white supremacy, to the assumption that white people dictate all the rules.
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I don't know abt that. It's a little difficult to imagine how power is an allowance of sorts rather than a reality or set of circumstances
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what I mean by "allow" is really more like "acknowledge that." If it were a matter of an allowance, then yes, that wouldn't really be power
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People shouldn't fighting each other for power over anyone. Can't we all just stop using the N-word in general? Let the stupid thing fade.
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If white ppl would stop feeling entitled to use language that was created to hurt and disempower ppl, sure. But they won't, so it continues.
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Exactly. He just REALLY wanted to continue inflicting intentional harm on people, bc his "beliefs" trump reality according to trans ppl, --
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-- doctors, psychologists, surgeons, human rights activists, science, and society in general.
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That's a big generalisation. Not everyone that insists it's people's right to say it thinks people *should* say it.
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I think most people insist on it because they don't see the harm, not because of any kind of power balance. Free speech absolutism.
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