And, I'll say again: Shilo shouldn't call children 'nigger'. That is wrong, and there are white people who've been beaten senseless or even killed for not saying it but being accused. She's a shitheel, but she didn't break the law.
You make some good points about law, but this one here I'll take umbrage with. She should absolutely call a nigger a nigger if he or she is being a nigger. There's plenty of decent black people, young and old, that don't act like niggers and instead act like decent and normal human beings, but here you must call a spade a spade.
Its like that old Chris Rock bit about black people vs niggers. Niggerdom isn't really a skin color; it's an attitude and pattern of behavior. And a child practicing his petty theivery by stealing money from a diaper bag is representative of the attitude and pattern of behavior.
I find nothing reprehensible about her actions, and even if we were to entertain special nigger word privileges for who can and can't say it, I'd point out that such moral considerations are for friend groups only; nobody would have batted an eye if it were a black lady calling a white child slurs.
Also, it's funny how much casting Power Word N upsets people, so you should do it more often.
Nigger is a racial slur, and as such, should never be directed towards children. Children should not be taught they are innately evil because a) it's not true, b) you are imparting a sense of identarian resentment on a child that is divorced from their conduct. It teaches the child that there is nothing that they can do right in other person's eyes, because it it's not that they did anything wrong, it's that the child existed near them. The other person would have called the child a nigger, or at least thought of them as a nigger, if the child had simply asked the other person where the bathroom was.
And the child would be right about that. It's a correct assessment. If you're calling a child a racial epithet, you're probably a terrible person who can't be trusted around children, because you're subsumed by collective guilt/blame, and will abuse children for shit they didn't do. As a result, you will teach them to hate your race with the resentment that you've built up, which poisons them with resentment too.
Instead, children have to be protected from racial epithets, and their parents have to teach the children not to simply assume that other groups of people are "enemies" simply because they look different, or are likely to hate them. Parents have to teach children to judge others by their actions, not simply because 'they all hate us'. This is actually a major problem that most black American children have, because they've been groomed by black racists to assume that all white people hate them; so there's no issue either hating them back, or exploiting opportunities and privileges in society to fuck with them.
Yeah, no, I disagree and think you're wrong. Racial slurs don't teach anyone they're inherently evil. They just tell you other people have strong negative opinions about your people.
Humans are not blank slates stamped out of a mold. Every man and woman born is another link in the chain of history, and this chain leads backwards in time to what our ancestors accomplished. This can be both a good and a bad thing.
And being a child is no special defense. You keep defending the child who was attempting to casually rob this woman, and with such casualness that you can fairly assume this isn't the kid's first rodeo. Shilo didn't run up to a random kid and go "hey nigger, get back to the cotton fields" or anything; she reached for a word she knew would hurt when she was agressed upon. She did the verbal equivalent of picking up a rock to throw. All of your assertions about "slur word bad" have this assumption of malintent built into them that simply was not present; this was ENTIRELY due to the ACTIONS that child undertook.
Yes they do, because it's a racial epithet, and that's what it's conferring: an epithet towards a person's race, not their behavior.
Yes, being a child is a special defense because they are a child and need to be both disciplined and raised appropriately to become good adults. Using racial epithets against children damages that.
I don't know that the kid actually stole anything, we're mostly just assuming they did from Shilo's word alone. Assuming it's true, a racial epithet doesn't correct the behavior. Yelling at the child would be better because it discourages the behavior. A racial epithet discourages the race, and nothing else.
. All of your assertions about "slur word bad" have this assumption of malintent built into them
Yes, because the word confers malintent towards a race. That's what that means. That's how the malintent is present.
"Shut the fuck up, you dumb fucking cracker." doesn't confer that a white person is talking to much. The offending action is being white.
You make some good points about law, but this one here I'll take umbrage with. She should absolutely call a nigger a nigger if he or she is being a nigger. There's plenty of decent black people, young and old, that don't act like niggers and instead act like decent and normal human beings, but here you must call a spade a spade.
Its like that old Chris Rock bit about black people vs niggers. Niggerdom isn't really a skin color; it's an attitude and pattern of behavior. And a child practicing his petty theivery by stealing money from a diaper bag is representative of the attitude and pattern of behavior.
I find nothing reprehensible about her actions, and even if we were to entertain special nigger word privileges for who can and can't say it, I'd point out that such moral considerations are for friend groups only; nobody would have batted an eye if it were a black lady calling a white child slurs.
Also, it's funny how much casting Power Word N upsets people, so you should do it more often.
Nigger is a racial slur, and as such, should never be directed towards children. Children should not be taught they are innately evil because a) it's not true, b) you are imparting a sense of identarian resentment on a child that is divorced from their conduct. It teaches the child that there is nothing that they can do right in other person's eyes, because it it's not that they did anything wrong, it's that the child existed near them. The other person would have called the child a nigger, or at least thought of them as a nigger, if the child had simply asked the other person where the bathroom was.
And the child would be right about that. It's a correct assessment. If you're calling a child a racial epithet, you're probably a terrible person who can't be trusted around children, because you're subsumed by collective guilt/blame, and will abuse children for shit they didn't do. As a result, you will teach them to hate your race with the resentment that you've built up, which poisons them with resentment too.
Instead, children have to be protected from racial epithets, and their parents have to teach the children not to simply assume that other groups of people are "enemies" simply because they look different, or are likely to hate them. Parents have to teach children to judge others by their actions, not simply because 'they all hate us'. This is actually a major problem that most black American children have, because they've been groomed by black racists to assume that all white people hate them; so there's no issue either hating them back, or exploiting opportunities and privileges in society to fuck with them.
Yeah, no, I disagree and think you're wrong. Racial slurs don't teach anyone they're inherently evil. They just tell you other people have strong negative opinions about your people.
Humans are not blank slates stamped out of a mold. Every man and woman born is another link in the chain of history, and this chain leads backwards in time to what our ancestors accomplished. This can be both a good and a bad thing.
And being a child is no special defense. You keep defending the child who was attempting to casually rob this woman, and with such casualness that you can fairly assume this isn't the kid's first rodeo. Shilo didn't run up to a random kid and go "hey nigger, get back to the cotton fields" or anything; she reached for a word she knew would hurt when she was agressed upon. She did the verbal equivalent of picking up a rock to throw. All of your assertions about "slur word bad" have this assumption of malintent built into them that simply was not present; this was ENTIRELY due to the ACTIONS that child undertook.
Yes they do, because it's a racial epithet, and that's what it's conferring: an epithet towards a person's race, not their behavior.
Yes, being a child is a special defense because they are a child and need to be both disciplined and raised appropriately to become good adults. Using racial epithets against children damages that.
I don't know that the kid actually stole anything, we're mostly just assuming they did from Shilo's word alone. Assuming it's true, a racial epithet doesn't correct the behavior. Yelling at the child would be better because it discourages the behavior. A racial epithet discourages the race, and nothing else.
Yes, because the word confers malintent towards a race. That's what that means. That's how the malintent is present.
"Shut the fuck up, you dumb fucking cracker." doesn't confer that a white person is talking to much. The offending action is being white.