The "N" word

[Grey Acumen]

I'll basically paraphrase my stance here:

Restricting a word from being used will never be possible. The only way for people to stop using it as an insult is for black people to stop taking it as one. Use it as a compliment to each other, and act as if its a compliment even if people are attempting to use it as an insult. 

This should be used for all words, because being "politically correct" only backfires, because those words are considered taboo, it gives those words power; faggot, retarded, bastard, bitch, nigger, honky, cracker, etc. These words are all considered taboo because they are "offensive" so what does that teach people? Only two things; if you want to insult and offend someone, you use those words, and if those words are used on you, you should be insulted and offended.

If people were actually successful in making a word taboo, it would be even worse, as people would simply move from one word to the next. instead of using cracker, they'd just move onto "saltine" or "flour" or "bowling pin" (I don't know) and then those words would have to be taboo too, and eventually we wouldn't have any words left.