11-03-2007, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Originally Posted by Jude30
I don't think most white people find those words as offensive as anyone finds the N word. There was an interview on NPR the other day of an author who wrote a book on the power of words. The single most powerful word in the English language today is the N word, it out paces any curse word you can say in it's offensiveness. To compare it to words like whitey, and cracker is naive. I'm also tired of people complaining about the inequity of power between those words. We as a society give the words the power that they have, and that power is probably not going to wane in our life time.
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The point is not the power or lack of power in certain words. My point is the inequity in racism. It's okay for various groups to be anti-White, but let whites express anything that even hints of racism then they're all up in arms about it. Or is it that ONLY whites can be racist? We as a society have given one group too much power to censor what other groups say or do.
And as for the "N word" as we're forced to call it.......why is it alright for them to use it, if it's so distasteful and offensive? If they don't want it used, then it should apply equally. |