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Originally Posted by Hektore
So, I was wondering, why do we bandwagon around the offensiveness of ethnic slurs, particularly the word 'nigger'?
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I don't, not at all. If I think a black dude is being an asshole, I'll call him a nigger. If I think a chinese person is being a dick, I'll call him a chink. If one of my fellow caucasoids being a douchebag, I'll call him a cracker. Really. It's no different from calling someone a shitfuck or a dumbass. And I do see Halanna's point: I went to one school that was 95% black (I was picked on everyday for being white at that one), and another that was about 45% black. The black kids called each other niggers all the time, and often time called white folk cracker (I was personally called snowflake, snowman, pork, whitebread, etc.), but the moment I called any of them a nigger, they were marching in the fucking streets about it. Hell, I've had people make jew jokes about me and I'm not even jewish (I used to have long, curly hair, aptly named jew curls). When I got my hair cut they called it my "post-Auschwitz haircut. My favorite was when some mexican kid said something about me not washing my jew hair, to which I replied "That's funny coming from a kid whose idea of taking a bath is swimming the rio grande." See, it works both ways. I don't have any "white guilt". I didn't beat any black people protesting in Montgomery, and I never stabbed a mexican dude for crossing the tracks.
People get bent out of shape too easily over words. Words have only as much power as you give them.
Oh well, this is starting to look like one of my rascist rants, so I'll stop here.