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Conservative editor backtracks after seeming to use n word regarding Haitian migrants
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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If it's in your regular enough vocabulary to "come out accidentally" you are a racist.
You also can't 'unsay' a racial slur as much as my ex can't 'unfuck' someone.
What's also neat is that it also shows one's intelligence. If you give him a pass "oh he said he was sorry" you're a racist AND dumb.
To a large extent you're racist because you're dumb.
For the last few months they've traded their dog whistles for blow horns. More and more hatred is being normalized.
Important caveat. It’s become a common word in some varieties of black-american english and black people aren’t racist for using it.
Not really, because he wasn't a Black guy talking to Black people. He knew what he did.
It's a racial slur. That's it. Don't use it, don't think it, don't think you can say it with your Black friends.
Obviously it’s fucked up how it was used in the above article.
And obviously if you’re not black you should never use it. But you’re assuming I’m not black with your comment.
I'm assuming no one needs that explained to them.
They you could have ignored my comment as it was not intended towards you
Who was it intended toward?
Someone that hasn’t watched TV since the 1980’s? ChatGPT, for when someone invariably turns it loose on the fediverse?
It’s not niche as a concept. Your explanation is known worldwide.
Its inclusion in the discourse is unwarranted.
Next time you feel the need to add a disclaimer that justifies/explains/adds caveats to racist language: fucking don’t.
There's a reason a distinction is made between how black people use it and when the "hard r" is in the pronunciation