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#151
this is some interesting dialogue.... It's amazing to me how another person's comment about another, particularly one that you don't have a connection with (like a celebrity), brings up so many feelings and emotions. like taking it personal.
 
#152
limom said:
I am not very familiar with the Dutch culture but perhaps are you referring to semantics?
Here in the USA, the word fat is pejorative but it can also be descriptive.
The Word Ni**er is only pejorative at this time.
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I hear plenty of Black people using it with affection between one another. It's perjorative and much more loaded generally, if it's said by a non-Black person to a Black person - especially so by a white person.

A female friend can affectionately call me Bish; but if my boyfriend were to call me bish or **** I'd be slapping him upside the head.

Dare I say it, but generally - the degree or severity of the term is based a lot on who is saying it, to whom, and in what context.

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#153
Cait said:
I hear plenty of Black people using it with affection between one another. It's perjorative and much more loaded generally, if it's said by a non-Black person to a Black person - especially so by a white person.

A female friend can affectionately call me Bish; but if my boyfriend were to call me bish or **** I'd be slapping him upside the head.

Dare I say it, but generally - the degree or severity of the term is based a lot on who is saying it, to whom, and in what context.

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Disagree. I am mixed race, and whenever I hear the N-word (regardless of the race of the person saying it), that person goes into my ignorant and idiot file.

B^tch is not the same. One term is meant to demoralize an entire race of people, another is meant for one specific person. Big difference.
 
#154
.:Sprigged:. said:
Disagree. I am mixed race, and whenever I hear the N-word (regardless of the race of the person saying it), that person goes into my ignorant and idiot file.

B^tch is not the same. One term is meant to demoralize an entire race of people, another is meant for one specific person. Big difference.
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It is meant for one gender, though, so I see it as derogatory toward women if I really think about it.
 
#156
.:Sprigged:. said:
Disagree. I am mixed race, and whenever I ear the N-word (regardless of the race of the person saying it), that person goes into my ignorant and idiot file.

B^tch is not the same. One term is meant to demoralize an entire race of people, another is meant for one specific person. Big difference.
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There are plenty of feminists who also believe bish is demoralizing to a woman, and that any woman who accepts or whom uses the term with affection is doing the entire female sex a great disservice, and has to be self-hating to use it.

I would be massacred if I called a non-white person, of any colour, a slur (and rightly so). But I still don't think - as a white person - I'm in any place to tell a black person not to use it with another black person. I have no idea if that clears it up, but agree to disagree.
 
#158
Cait said:
There are plenty of feminists who also believe bish is demoralizing to a woman, and that any woman who accepts or whom uses the term with affection is doing the entire female sex a great disservice, and has to be self-hating to use it.

I would be massacred if I called a non-white person, of any colour, a slur (and rightly so). But I still don't think - as a white person - I'm in any place to tell a black person not to use it with another black person. I have no idea if that clears it up, but agree to disagree.
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I am white, black, Native American and latino.

And to me the the sooner the N word dies, the better.
 
#164
DC-Cutie said:
this is some interesting dialogue.... It's amazing to me how another person's comment about another, particularly one that you don't have a connection with (like a celebrity), brings up so many feelings and emotions. like taking it personal.
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Amen and thank you.

Karl said a singer is a bit fat, big whoop.

I can understand a discussion, but to get worked up over two complete strangers? :huh:
 
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