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.
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.