I mean, even "cracker" isn't particularly offensive. Although if you hear it in person, probably best to assess the probability of you getting shanked in the very near future.
"Nigger" isn't even objectively offensive. It just comes from the Latin word for 'black'. It's interesting that 'nigger' is offensive, but negro less so even though they both come from Spanish - and 'black' is now the preferred term even though it's literally the same thing.
People are taught to get angry over that word. There is no reason for it, as I once explained on a KiA post. They always have the excuse of "that word has been used to oppression people" and such as, but that makes little sense. Any other word could have been used to oppression the blacks, that doesn't make the words themselves bad.
I think it's smart for them to try to 'take it back', because having your well-being destroyed by someone saying a word is not an optimal state of being. But "we can say it and whites can't" is not taking it back, because it doesn't rob the word of its power. It actually adds to it, as though it has some sort of talismanic force.
They've been raised to believe everything is racism so it's impossible for them to tell what real racism is anymore.
They've been told that using racial slurs themselves is fine but if white people do it, it's racist. It's ridiculous and contradictory, but that's what happens when words don't mean anything anymore and you just go by what everyone else tells you to believe.
Yep. Only you can decide how you react. But it does look stupid to call each other that while also hyperventilating if a white person says it. Just my opinion
Being offended is something that is in your power to control. I'm not saying it's easy, and it's never a good feeling to have hate and vitriol spewed at you, but at the end of the day it's within your power to decide whether to let it offend you or not.
This used to be taught by parents, "sticks and stones" and all that. It's a shame this seems not to be the case any more.
Of all the real slurs, Gringo seems to have the most bite to me, at least phonetically speaking. Any others with teeth refer to specific races and not white skinned in general.
Black people love white people. When they call you a cracka, it's a term of endearment.
Latinos who say "gringo" genuinely dislike Americans. At least with the South Americans, I genuinely think that they think that they're better than us.
Is that one a slur though? It seems to be used more matter-of-factly than as an insult, and also encapsulates whites, blacks, hispanics, even other asians.
Gaijin is more or less "foreigner". A word that definitely can have hostile meanings, but also perfectly factual ones, but rarely complimentary ones. Evil or Neutral, not Good.
I mean, even "cracker" isn't particularly offensive. Although if you hear it in person, probably best to assess the probability of you getting shanked in the very near future.
"Nigger" isn't even objectively offensive. It just comes from the Latin word for 'black'. It's interesting that 'nigger' is offensive, but negro less so even though they both come from Spanish - and 'black' is now the preferred term even though it's literally the same thing.
People are taught to get angry over that word. There is no reason for it, as I once explained on a KiA post. They always have the excuse of "that word has been used to oppression people" and such as, but that makes little sense. Any other word could have been used to oppression the blacks, that doesn't make the words themselves bad.
I think it's smart for them to try to 'take it back', because having your well-being destroyed by someone saying a word is not an optimal state of being. But "we can say it and whites can't" is not taking it back, because it doesn't rob the word of its power. It actually adds to it, as though it has some sort of talismanic force.
On the other hand, she was a fan of Kendrick Lamar so she gets what's coming to her.
N-I-double-Guh-R, nigger.
The fact this word has such a pavlovian effect on people is astounding, and seems intentional.
If it was so offensive to blacks then black entertainment wouldn’t be riddled with it. They only pretend to be offended when a white person says it.
They've been raised to believe everything is racism so it's impossible for them to tell what real racism is anymore.
They've been told that using racial slurs themselves is fine but if white people do it, it's racist. It's ridiculous and contradictory, but that's what happens when words don't mean anything anymore and you just go by what everyone else tells you to believe.
Hearing it causes them to chimp out (something they really like to do. Apparently it reminds them of home)
Yep. Only you can decide how you react. But it does look stupid to call each other that while also hyperventilating if a white person says it. Just my opinion
I find the use of it outside of comedy to be extremely ignorant. It just makes you look like a troglodyte at best.
Being offended is something that is in your power to control. I'm not saying it's easy, and it's never a good feeling to have hate and vitriol spewed at you, but at the end of the day it's within your power to decide whether to let it offend you or not.
This used to be taught by parents, "sticks and stones" and all that. It's a shame this seems not to be the case any more.
Of all the real slurs, Gringo seems to have the most bite to me, at least phonetically speaking. Any others with teeth refer to specific races and not white skinned in general.
Greaser Bog-trotter Kraut Kike
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Black people love white people. When they call you a cracka, it's a term of endearment.
Latinos who say "gringo" genuinely dislike Americans. At least with the South Americans, I genuinely think that they think that they're better than us.
Gaijin, though its connotations are much more shaky than other examples.
Is that one a slur though? It seems to be used more matter-of-factly than as an insult, and also encapsulates whites, blacks, hispanics, even other asians.
Gaijin is more or less "foreigner". A word that definitely can have hostile meanings, but also perfectly factual ones, but rarely complimentary ones. Evil or Neutral, not Good.
That is the fun thing. It definitely can and is used as an insult. Context and intend matters. Just like with other words like nigger.