Are we due for one of these threads already?
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Originally Posted by Hektore
These words exist and are used for identical purposes, but some are perceived to be more offensive, more inflammatory. Why is that?
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Location and historical context.
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Originally Posted by Halanna
African Americans (AA's cause I'm too lazy to type) call each other the N word all the time. I've overheard it in the Wal-Mart parking lot, in popular songs by AA artists, at the shop where my husband works and in movies where nary a protest is heard.
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How scientific.
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Originally Posted by Halanna
The only people not allowed to call anyone any ethnic name is a person who is white. Then the protests start, the ACLU becomes involved, people lose their jobs, if anything happens in conjunction with an ethnic slur then it's a hate crime.
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History_of_the_United_States
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Originally Posted by Halanna
There is no denying that any ethnic slur is offensive and rude. But really, if it's so offensive and rude, then those very people who find it offensive and rude should stop using it in their everyday language and toward one another. It seems more a case of "do as I say, not as I do".
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Who'd have thought it was really so simple.