Inside the NBA and the Double Standard of Racism

[vivster]

Xxain said:

vivster said:
This bullshit again. Arguing about semantics when all that counts is intent. If both sides stopped arguing about meaningless words maybe they'd have more time to fight the actual racism in the country that is not done by words. I guess the power to be able to block someone else's words from being said no matter the intention is way too alluring.

Pro tip: if you don't like certain words to be said, stop giving them power by making them taboo.

That is easy to say when you are not the target of said words. If you are black father or mother, the idea of your kids having live through racist statements just to hopefully depower them is a lot to ask.

Yes, must suck for people who cannot distinguish between words and intent. I imagine all the black people getting called "nigga" every day by their best friends must be really hurting.

See, I just said the bad word. Did I do a racism? No, I physically can't because I'm not a racist and context matters. Words stop being hurtful if there is no intent behind them. By making any usage of a word taboo you give the word extreme power AND you give the people who use it with intent even more power, because now they use it on purpose because they know you don't like it.

Now, I'm not saying that we should all start calling each other slurs, how funny that might be, but maybe we should stop witch hunting innocent people who definitely aren't racist. A word cannot make someone a racist, only intent and action can.