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.
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.