Why do black people call me the n word?

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Gattsu25

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Demon Lizardman said:
My college campus is surrounded by a ghetto and every time I walk into the burger king or taco bell around the area, I will hear somebody call me that word. Now, maybe I haven't looked myself in the mirror lately but I am not a black guy. So, why do they insist on calling my that word? I am more of a honkie or a cracker as they call it. Please help GAF.
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Tell me how off base I am.

The mannerisms of the man asking you:
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The way you saw the man:
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FStop7

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Kreayshawn took heat from the Game over dropping N bombs on Twitter.

Truly the makings of an epic hip hop beef there.
 
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Aquamarine

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TheRedMan said:
It's a slur. The people that use it casually, regardless of race, are not people I tend to associate with or would want to associate with.

Makes me cringe to just hear it said out loud, regardless of who is saying it, just like any other slur. It's the only slur that gets paraded around and glorified. You don't see Chinese people calling each other chinks and Koreans calling each other gooks, and saying they have exclusive rights to call each other chinks and gooks and nobody else can say it. It's completely awkward to have to deal with it, as in the example OP gave and others in this thread. I have no idea how we as a society have allowed it to be so one race can use it liberally and everybody else is shamed. It's blatantly unequal. Am I the only one that thinks this is dumb and should change?
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In the USA, black people were enslaved until the 1860s, and it was legal to discriminate against them until the 1960s.

At the very least, they deserve rights over a word. :p
 
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Devolution

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TacticalFox88 said:
Curiously, did YOU say it on the regular/still do?
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Only with/in the company of friends whom I grew up with and TD since it's been established that it's not a big deal. And usually then it's still just some random quote.

Redman took that post down but I heard plenty of asian people co-opt slang against them.
 
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Angelus Errare

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My asian friends call each other chink, it's hilarious because I keep telling them it'll never catch on...yet here they are...3 years later still calling each other it.
 
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Gattsu25

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TheRedMan said:
It's a slur. The people that use it casually, regardless of race, are not people I tend to associate with or would want to associate with.

Makes me cringe to just hear it said out loud, regardless of who is saying it, just like any other slur. It's the only slur that gets paraded around and glorified. You don't see Chinese people calling each other chinks and Koreans calling each other gooks, and saying they have exclusive rights to call each other chinks and gooks and nobody else can say it. It's completely awkward to have to deal with it, as in the example OP gave and others in this thread. I have no idea how we as a society have allowed it to be so one race can use it liberally and everybody else is shamed. It's blatantly unequal. Am I the only one that thinks this is dumb and should change?
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I agree with you. It's just like the confederate/rebel flag, in a way. A symbol of hate that is now bandied around by the people that that were the victims of the symbol. Except that last part isn't true. Also, the confederate flag serves no purpose other than as a symbol of hatred and inhumanity towards others. Any other opinion is one bred in ignorance. There are those that claim it to be a rebel flag but the only rebellion it represents is the rebellion against human decency. Some claim that it is a patriotic symbol against government overreach but the only political statement it represents is inherently unpatriotic. Some claim that it represents the desire for states to maintain their right to govern themselves, and not slavery, but states could and can still do that and the only right that was contested was the right to sell and own other humans. It's a symbol that represents evil in its purest form.

Actually, on second thought... it has little to do with the N word other than being something that formerly repressed a people. The key difference is that the attempted re-appropriation of the confederate flag is being carried out by the ignorant people or racists and the re-appropriation of the N word is being carried out by the people who were oppressed and, in some ways, still are.

Sorry about that. I actually don't think I agree with you that much but I do agree that I doubt I will be saying the N word anytime soon.
 
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Grakl

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Gattsu25 said:
I agree with you. It's just like the confederate/rebel flag, in a way. A symbol of hate that is now bandied around by the people that that were the victims of the symbol. Only, the confederate flag serves no purpose other than as a symbol of hatred and inhumanity towards others. Any other opinion is one bred in ignorance. There are those that claim it to be a rebel flag but the only rebellion it represents is the rebellion against human decency. Some claim that it is a patriotic symbol against government overreach but the only political statement it represents is inherently unpatriotic. Some claim that it represents the desire for states to maintain their right to govern themselves, and not slavery, but states could and can still do that and the only right that was contested was the right to sell and own other humans. It's a symbol that represents evil in its purest form.

Actually, on second thought... it has little to do with the N word other than being something that formerly repressed a people. The key difference is that the attempted re-appropriation of the confederate flag is being carried out by the ignorant people or racists and the re-appropriation of the N word is being carried out by the people who were oppressed and, in some ways, still are.

Sorry about that. I actually don't think I agree with you that much but I do agree that I doubt I will be saying the N word anytime soon.
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lol, what a silly post
 
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The first time a black person greeted me with "mah n-word!" I felt this deep seated sense of elation, like I had been welcomed into an inner circle (being very not black myself).
 
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Angelus Errare

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Devolution said:
Fob, gook, chink, flip, heard plenty.
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Funny thing is they're Korean. I call some of them FOB when they say something nonsensical. Like "That was some ol FOB ass shit you just said."

One time me and my boy Yoon were riding around and we saw someone in a truck at the stop light, but couldn't tell. So he's like "yo dawg, is that Oh young?" I'm like no clue, dude is just too far away, similar truck though. "I swear that's him dude, you sure it's not?" Again, I'm not sure I can't tell. "Yo that looks like him right?!" So I just bust out "man all yall look alike!" we both die laughing.

What is the moral of this story?

No clue.
 
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way more

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And TheRedMan calls himself Redman? I guess slurs against Indians are funny but against black "Not even once."


I'm just sayin' I don't mean to imply that you meant it as an ethnophaulism.
 
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botty

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Demon Lizardman said:
My college campus is surrounded by a ghetto and every time I walk into the burger king or taco bell around the area, I will hear somebody call me that word. Now, maybe I haven't looked myself in the mirror lately but I am not a black guy. So, why do they insist on calling my that word? I am more of a honkie or a cracker as they call it. Please help GAF.
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Where do I even begin with this shit...

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sappyday

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Most black people I know just say it to everyone. It's no disrespect. Here in LA it's just so common in the ghetto areas that everyone say it. I sometimes catch myself saying even though I'm not black. However, does it matter? The black people I know don't care if I or anyone else say it. We can tell the difference between saying it casually or when it's meant out of disrespect.

"My nigga" "My homie" "My brotha" "My dude" "My friend"

They're all the same.
 
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Takuan

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I like using "chank", just because it sounds funny to me and reminds me of chappelle's black white supremacist skit. I don't really use it in real life though, unless I'm joking around with someone else who's into casual racism.

The image of someone running away when asked for a smoke is goddamned hilarious, btw. Especially someone who stands 6'3.
 
abstract alien

abstract alien

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Don't feel too bad. Black people have told me I'm a "white boy" because I don't ever say nigga, nigger, or any other variant of the term.
 
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Everdred

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I was walking on the sidewalk of outskirts Minneapolis and an elder black guy on a bike passed me and shouted "Move it turkey!", it put a huge smile on my face and put me in a better mood the rest of the day. I'm not sure if I was suppose to be offended but I genuinely enjoyed it.
 
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Demon Lizardman said:
My college campus is surrounded by a ghetto and every time I walk into the burger king or taco bell around the area, I will hear somebody call me that word. Now, maybe I haven't looked myself in the mirror lately but I am not a black guy. So, why do they insist on calling my that word? I am more of a honkie or a cracker as they call it. Please help GAF.
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your thread should be called why do ignorant people call you nigga. i see/hear white humans and white Hispanic humans call each other niggas everyday its not just a black human thing..you have either been living under a rock or you truly are what they call you.ignorant of the world you live in.
 
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kirby_fox

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As a white guy that went to a predominantly (80%) black middle/high school, I have been called it many times to the point it just doesn't phase me. The connotation to the people saying this is different than your connotation it seems.

It's a positive thing. Well, potentially. It actually depends on tone, which to me sounds positive. If they change their tone then it's an insult. The -er and -a endings mean absolutely nothing in those circumstances.

Tone is everything.
 
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toastyToast

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Stealth it's ok to say nigga thread

People just use the word too much and get used to it. You think someone who says nigga a lot is going to mentally stop themselves from saying nigga just because you're not black? Hell no

It's too deeply ingrained in the lexicon
 
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Kater

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BobbyRoberts said:
OH JESUS THE PATRONS OF THE GHETTO BURGER KING ARE CALLING AFTER ME IN THEIR FASHION.

I must quickly retire to my dorm and ask a gaming forum advice on racial relations.

INTERNET: SCARY PEOPLE FROM THE GHETTO HAVE LAID SIEGE TO MY INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

They are using terms they bandy about with their familiars, and applying them to me. All I want is a Whopper Jr. and now I have a mouthful of RACIAL SLURS.

How do I respond I am 6ft 3in and my favorite anime involves a godzilla fucking something.
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Glorious, lol :>
 
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