Having grown up around them, I believe its both. Many very young ones will react violently because they are expected to. They know they have to, because they watch grown ones do it and internalize that its supposed to hurt somehow which in turn creates the necessary chain before they can conceptualize why. That's how all "slurs" continue to exist after their original generation.
Once they are adults, they have lost the necessary emotional depth to be "hurt" by it through years of violence and desensitization, so instead it becomes entirely put on to allow them to do some hoodrat shit like looting.
It can be opportunistic. Like you know people that would welcome an opportunity to kick black ass. There are those who would relish the opportunity to kick white ass. If they say that someone said nigger, then the cops will drop a whole investigation.
I'd argue that they're trained to understand that they can literally do anything they want when the word is uttered, so they will.
Having grown up around them, I believe its both. Many very young ones will react violently because they are expected to. They know they have to, because they watch grown ones do it and internalize that its supposed to hurt somehow which in turn creates the necessary chain before they can conceptualize why. That's how all "slurs" continue to exist after their original generation.
Once they are adults, they have lost the necessary emotional depth to be "hurt" by it through years of violence and desensitization, so instead it becomes entirely put on to allow them to do some hoodrat shit like looting.
It can be opportunistic. Like you know people that would welcome an opportunity to kick black ass. There are those who would relish the opportunity to kick white ass. If they say that someone said nigger, then the cops will drop a whole investigation.