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Akvod on 15 August 2010
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The Ghost of RubangB said:
Akvod said:
 

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

The term double standard, coined in 1912,[1] refers to any set of principles containing different provisions for one group of people than for another, typically without a good reason for having said difference.[2] A double standard may take the form of an instance in which certain applications (often of a word or phrase) are perceived as acceptable to be used by one group of people, but are considered unacceptable—taboo—when used by another group.

Hence why KylieDog was bringing the point that we all humans.

Well yeah it's a double standard, but there's a good reason for it with centuries of linguistic baggage.

And white people don't really have anything to gain by using the word.  It's like women saying "hey why can't I piss in a urinal?!??"  The answer is "you don't have a penis."  This is the same issue (even though some women do it anyway).  There's just no reason to argue it because there's nothing to win.

Honestly, the word is much better off now than it was 50 or 100 years ago.  Now you can actually say "nigger" in a book without it getting banned.  You just can't pull a Michael Richards and repeatedly scream it into a microphone at a group of blacks.  I mean, it's perfectly legal, but not too smart.

It's like... Marty McFly can call himself chicken, but I fucking DARE you to call him a chicken.  There's no reason to call him a chicken unless you WANT what's going to happen afterwards.


*raises eye brow*

The example with the women is simply a logical one (although it's not the best example. Since a woman can technically piss in a urinal. Just not acceptable in society and extremely inconvenient). Women don't say it, because the statement itself is illogical.

... god dammit you're completely making me feel itchy with such a stupid example.

Your point is that it's a logical contradiction to say both your urinal statement, and for a non-black skinned individual to say 'nigger'. Both are not in fact.

In your last example, that's just saying you shouldn't insult anybody.

I'm not really coming here to defend this lady, since I don't want to waste time listening to her radio show and whatnot. But if she was simply saying the word 'nigger', because she was talking about the word itself and its usage, obviously she wasn't meaning it in a negative or insulting context.

That is why I've brought up the comparison with Lord Voldemort, and the mythical status of the word. If we cannot even say the word to talk about it, it's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, I LITERALLY see people looking around and whispering, almost like it was some magic word, "the 'N' word".