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What's up with the N word? Keep it out of the Podium please.

12,738 11,124 July 20, 2012 at 06:48 PM in Question
It really bothers me when black people or for that matter anyone uses the N word.

I was walking into Wal-Mart today, when I passed a group of five young black kids. All I heard was N this and you F-ing N. More then once in the short time it took me to get out of ear shot of them.

My question is if it is an offensive word for a white person to say it, what makes it less offensive for a black person to use it?

If I would have been walking past them with some of my white friends and called one of them a N In front of them, I would more then likely would have had to defend myself.

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ikonoklast
07-21-2012 at 04:44 AM.
07-21-2012 at 04:44 AM.
There is a difference between nigga and ni**er, they mean 2 different things. It's like the word gay, it used to mean happy but it now also means homosexual. Words evolve and people turned something vile into a neutral word and I don't see anything wrong with that. Words and context go hand in hand and I don't know how you can separate the two. I've heard people of all ethnicity use nigga.

No, I do not use nigga and definitely don't use censored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigga

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boltman2007
07-21-2012 at 06:49 AM.
07-21-2012 at 06:49 AM.
I dony hear that word siad much around here... get out of the ghetto.
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07-21-2012 at 06:54 AM.
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I dony hear that word siad much around here... get out of the ghetto.
This is NYC, you hear it when you are around anywhere there is young people.
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boltman2007
07-21-2012 at 06:57 AM.
07-21-2012 at 06:57 AM.
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This is NYC, you hear it when you are around anywhere there is young people.
Like I said....
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ikonoklast
07-21-2012 at 06:59 AM.
07-21-2012 at 06:59 AM.
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Like I said....
Or I could just not overreact to things and still live here...
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cupcake42
07-21-2012 at 08:19 AM.
07-21-2012 at 08:19 AM.
Quote from ikonoklast :
There is a difference between nigga and ni**er, they mean 2 different things. It's like the word gay, it used to mean happy but it now also means homosexual. Words evolve and people turned something vile into a neutral word and I don't see anything wrong with that. Words and context go hand in hand and I don't know how you can separate the two. I've heard people of all ethnicity use nigga.

No, I do not use nigga and definitely don't use censored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigga


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I see what you're saying, but I'm not using nigga or ni**er.

I have to much respect for myself and others to use a word that is so vile in general.
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07-21-2012 at 08:40 AM.
07-21-2012 at 08:40 AM.
Quote from cupcake42 :
I see what you're saying, but I'm not using nigga or ni**er.

I have to much respect for myself and others to use a word that is so vile in general.
Just curious. Why? It's just a word. It's us humans that give meaning to the word.

It reminds me of some folks I knew that were trying to stop saying Bitch so instead of saying that they would say blue. I argued that when they said blue they were meaning bitch so did it really matter? The meaning was the same.
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07-21-2012 at 08:53 AM.
07-21-2012 at 08:53 AM.
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Just curious. Why? It's just a word. It's us humans that give meaning to the word.

It reminds me of some folks I knew that were trying to stop saying Bitch so instead of saying that they would say blue. I argued that when they said blue they were meaning bitch so did it really matter? The meaning was the same.
Yes you are right. But sad as it is, it brings out bad feeling in people.
I know what you mean about the bitch thing, My son says fark and I tell him that is just as bad as just saying the word because you mean the same thing.
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07-21-2012 at 08:54 AM.
07-21-2012 at 08:54 AM.
Quote from TigerStar :
Just curious. Why? It's just a word. It's us humans that give meaning to the word.

It reminds me of some folks I knew that were trying to stop saying Bitch so instead of saying that they would say blue. I argued that when they said blue they were meaning bitch so did it really matter? The meaning was the same.
It's kind of like the SD filter changing words to something supposedly more acceptable.

Like there is any doubt what word was really intended when someone types fark you!
Everyone knows what was really meant so does it really make it better to change it?

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Yes you are right. But sad as it is, it brings out bad feeling in people.
I know what you mean about the bitch thing, My son says fark and I tell him that is just as bad as just saying the word because you mean the same thing.
You beat me to it laugh out loud
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ikonoklast
07-21-2012 at 09:00 AM.
07-21-2012 at 09:00 AM.
Quote from cupcake42 :
I see what you're saying, but I'm not using nigga or ni**er.

I have to much respect for myself and others to use a word that is so vile in general.
Same here. I'd rather not hear it but kids say stupid things.

Let me clean out your dirtied ears. Bleh Stick Out Tongue
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07-21-2012 at 09:05 AM.
07-21-2012 at 09:05 AM.
Quote from ikonoklast :
Same here. I'd rather not hear it but kids say stupid things.

Let me clean out your dirtied ears. Bleh Stick Out Tongue
Stop that it tickles! laugh out loud
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Zoe Moon
07-21-2012 at 09:27 AM.
07-21-2012 at 09:27 AM.
I think that originally, black people using the N word started out as a way to take back and diffuse the N word. If you use the word amongst your own race, then it makes the word less potent for the haters. But somewhere along the way the use of the N word got out of hand.

Richard Pryor did an interesting piece about why he stopped using the N word.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltWj4iAmno
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07-21-2012 at 06:47 PM.
07-21-2012 at 06:47 PM.
Who cares about the N word? Dontknow

What's up with the B word? That's offensive. And I'm not talking about breakfast.
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ikonoklast
07-22-2012 at 05:40 AM.
07-22-2012 at 05:40 AM.
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Who cares about the N word? Dontknow

What's up with the B word? That's offensive. And I'm not talking about breakfast.
I agree, I find it extremely unpleasant when people use "brunch" around me.
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