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Soundwave said:
o_O.Q said:
oh shit! someone said a word! stop the presses!

So if I come up to you and say your mom is a whore, and then say "relax dude, it's just a word", we're cool?

Yes it's a personal insult, but that is how black people from my understanding feel about that word because of its historical context. 

except that 3 words (not just a word)... and personal, while sayin Nigga is a generalisation.

Also it just means "of black skin", its from the latin word.

So saying "your mom is a whore" is alot more offensive.



Xen said:
Soundwave said:

So if I come up to you and say your mom is a whore, and then say "relax dude, it's just a word", we're cool?

Yes it's a personal insult, but that is how black people from my understanding feel about that word because of its historical context. 

You're gonna talk to him personally, or are you gonna do it in a stream during a game?

Way to call all black people pussies that get triggered by a word, as well.

Would it make a difference? The person doing it would be an asshole either way, whether they do it over a stream or in person. 

If people are itching to say it, go say it in front of a black person. Or better yet, several of them. Though I suspect most of the people who try to push the "it's just a word" narrative would need a diaper to prevent the piss from going down their pants in doing that outside of the confines of their keyboard. 



Soundwave said:
o_O.Q said:
oh shit! someone said a word! stop the presses!

So if I come up to you and say your mom is a whore, and then say "relax dude, it's just a word", we're cool?

Yes it's a personal insult, but that is how black people from my understanding feel about that word because of its historical context. 

uh... so because i'm not ok with something being said, it should be outlawed? is that really where society is headed? lol

whore has had a negative historical context for women, do we then ban that too?

what about idiot? that has had a negative historical context for all people

do we then just look at the vocabulary and seek out words that we deem to be used malevolently and cut them from existance?

 

are we now heading towards a situation where we ban the ability of people to express disdain towards each other? 

 

you also refer to is as a personalised insult, how can something be personalised to someone if its not being directed at that person?



JRPGfan said:
Soundwave said:

So if I come up to you and say your mom is a whore, and then say "relax dude, it's just a word", we're cool?

Yes it's a personal insult, but that is how black people from my understanding feel about that word because of its historical context. 

except that 3 words (not just a word)... and personal, while sayin Nigga is a generalisation.

Also it just means "of black skin", its from the latin word.

So saying "your mom is a whore" is alot more offensive.

To a black person I don't think it is. It's fairly equivalent, it takes *that* for a white person to probably understand what it feels like though since there is no real equvalent racial term that has the connotation and history of misery behind it. 

Also, PDP did not say "nigga". 



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Peh said:
o_O.Q said:

oh shit! someone said a word! stop the presses!

its kind of sad that society has "progressed" to the point where people are so brainwashed that they associate the uttering of a word with malevolent intent

apparently its words and not intent that are important now

While we are at it, let's remove insults from the forum rules. They are just words, right?

actually i think you should do that, i don't think that expression should be so limited, it should be limited within reason sure, but i do think we should allow people to express a certain level of disdain towards each other



o_O.Q said:
Soundwave said:

So if I come up to you and say your mom is a whore, and then say "relax dude, it's just a word", we're cool?

Yes it's a personal insult, but that is how black people from my understanding feel about that word because of its historical context. 

uh... so because i'm not ok with something being said, it should be outlawed? is that really where society is headed? lol

whore has had a negative historical context for women, do we then ban that too?

what about idiot? that has had a negative historical context for all people

do we then just look at the vocabulary and seek out words that we deem to be used malevolently and cut them from existance?

 

are we now heading towards a situation where we ban the ability of people to express disdain towards each other? 

 

you also refer to is as a personalised insult, how can something be personalised to someone if its not being directed at that person?

You can say whatever you want. Just be prepared to deal with the consequences. 

Depending on your personal family history we could up with specific words in context that I'm sure would piss you off (ie: if you have a brother with a mental illness, I'm sure you probably could lose it if you over heard someone joking about him being a nutcase, for example, while that word may mean little to someone else). 

The word PDP has been directede in a negative way by whites to blacks and has an ugly, ugly history. It is what it is. 



Soundwave said:
Xen said:

You're gonna talk to him personally, or are you gonna do it in a stream during a game?

Way to call all black people pussies that get triggered by a word, as well.

Would it make a difference? The person doing it would be an asshole either way, whether they do it over a stream or in person. 

If people are itching to say it, go say it in front of a black person. Or better yet, several of them. Though I suspect most of the people who try to push the "it's just a word" narrative would need a diaper to prevent the piss from going down their pants in doing that outside of the confines of their keyboard. 

Would all the kids calling eachother faggots and niggers in online games dare do it IRL? One is without concequences and is forgotten within 10 seconds, the other will make you lose a tooth. It's mouthing off vs malicious intent, like that other dude said.



Soundwave said:
JRPGfan said:

except that 3 words (not just a word)... and personal, while sayin Nigga is a generalisation.

Also it just means "of black skin", its from the latin word.

So saying "your mom is a whore" is alot more offensive.

To a black person I don't think it is. It's fairly equivalent, it takes *that* for a white person to probably understand what it feels like though since there is no real equvalent racial term that has the connotation and history of misery behind it. 

Also, PDP did not say "nigga". 

Yes it is. This is over the top, like feminist nazi, that overreact to everything.

Today lots of black people on tv, call one another nigga, and such. Even non coloured do it to friends.

Slavery was 100's of years ago, time to let that sh*t go.

If I was black and someone said that, Id just remind them that it means "of black skin" and say "yes my skin is dark" or whatever and move on.

Or call them "whities" back at them, or "spics" whatnot.



JRPGfan said:
Soundwave said:

To a black person I don't think it is. It's fairly equivalent, it takes *that* for a white person to probably understand what it feels like though since there is no real equvalent racial term that has the connotation and history of misery behind it. 

Also, PDP did not say "nigga". 

Yes it is. This is over the top, like feminist nazi, that overreact to everything.

Today lots of black people on tv, call one another nigga, and such. Even non coloured do it to friends.

Slavery was 100's of years ago, time to let that sh*t go.

If I was black and someone said that, Id just remind them that it means "of black skin" and say "yes my skin is dark" or whatever and move on.

Or call them "whities" back at them, or "spics" whatnot.

There's a big difference between "nigger" and "nigga". 

Black people get to decide when "to let that shit go", not some idiot vlogger on the internet. 

If you were black you likely would have a very, very different life experience with that word, just a wild guess.