• gigaqps@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      You merely adopted the N-word. I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn’t leave the Xbox live CS lobby until I was already a man.

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      I geniuenly think that this big censorship of n-word around the world is result of american cultural imperialism. Only americans should think it is offensive word and maybe other english-natives, but not like the entire world. :My problem is that i dont want this word to exist. It just annoys me, that I have to be so prudish, because some cultures enslaved black people. Apparently there are more than western countries in the world, and none of them need to loan a racial slur, so we can carry this further with us. My language never did so. And loaning yet another racial slur because we are gringos is not the best thing i think.

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        You serious? The word has been used for a loooong time to demean and dehumanize a hroup of people. It’s only recently been reclaimed by that group of people. The thing is, I a white person saying the word with or without the hard R. Is very different than a black person saying it.

        There is no pass, there is no saying it in private or because it’s a lyric in a song. I had a significant black influence on my life through my step dad and his family and later my wife and her family. I’ve seen amd heard the words used against them amd them saying it amongst eachother. I was even given a talk when I was very young explaining it when I said it.

        Stucks and stones they say, well that’s just not true. Words havr power including that one. I can’t really tell if the person in the video is a black person but the context changes.

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        5 days ago

        Not only is this not censorship, it is functionally a different word entirely. The spelling matters here.

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        5 days ago

        Are you dumb or just uninformed?

        At least here in germany the Nazis heavily used it and gassed blacks, no american influence need to make decent people avoid it.

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          If so, avoid it. Idc about german case, there is some other languages that likely use it as a slur, but the main source of it is america. You see, in Estonia, ‘neeger’ used to mean any black guy, without being racial slur. But recently it was considered slur, because teenagers influenced by american culture started using it as a slur, eventually leading to its ban. And I dont mind , it just now i have to unnaturally replace it with two much longer words. And I see this as a useless adoption, the less words have offensive meaning, the better.

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            4 days ago

            "We previously had a casual, low-key racism that no one minded! Everyone was perfectly fine with that arrangement. Until the youths stumbled into a way to get attention by making it more racist! I didn’t want it to be more racist, it was the right amount of racist before! And as I said, everyone was fine with it!

            Anyway regardless I’ll still call them neegers. Those Americans with their influence can’t take that from me."

            Just an unbelievably trash hill to stake your vomit-tier flag on, but sure, go off.


            Here’s a question, why are all the “I’m Estonian!” announcers I ever stumble into, always just simultaneously, proactively finding the worst possible takes to give, upon their own introduction/announcement? The fuck is up with that “type” of y’all?

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              We previously had a casual, low-key racism that no one minded

              A certified USian braindead take, from a typical USian thinking their view of the world is the only possible one. As the commenter above has said, words derived from ‘negro’ just mean black people around the world. If you’re so dense as to think any word meaning ‘black’ is racist, then you must stop using ‘black’ altogether, and also euphemisms like ‘dark’ too. And stop using ‘white’ since it’s contrasted with ‘black’.

              But who am I kidding? USians do actually think everyone must do exactly that, by eliminating words like ‘blacklist’ and ‘whitelist’. Next, they’ll insist that ‘black metal’ and ‘Black plague’ are racist, and that darkness must stop being associated with death and evil spirits, and that being afraid of darkness is racist.

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                Are you completely braindead?

                Yes it comes from the european word you mentioned which just meant all blacks, WHICH WAS USED AS A SLUR AT THE TIME!

                Thats exactly the point, it is a word from a time where people where just openly racist AF and a black skin color was sinonimous with “deserves to be enslaved, subhuman, animal” BECAUSE EUROPEANS AT THE TIME THOUGHT THAT ABOUT ALL BLACK PEOPLE!!

                SO THE WORD MEANS BOTH: “ALL BLACKS” AND “SUBHUMAN PIECE OF SHIT”

                THAT’S EXACTLY WHY DECENT PEOPLE DONT USE IT!!!

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                  Remarkable, you claim to be German, which a 1/1024th of you might perhaps be, but you behave like a typical USian cunt, whose unbounded ignorance and unwillingness to learn are only matched by the infinite arrogance and sense of entitlement. You’re ready to peddle USian talking points of them feeling a bit bad about the racism and therefore getting to do cultural imperialism and tell the entire world how to live their lives, while pretending to be good and moral persons themselves. But I don’t want you to live with this delusion, and I want you to know that you’re on the side of evil cunts. In your recent comments you even got so high on sniffing your horse’s farts that you not only have shown that you don’t get the basic use-mention distinction, but were openly chastising others about your own stupidity! You’re the kind of jackass that would gladly edit Mark Twain’s novels a century after his death.

                  One day, when the US is no longer a global empire, everyone will know exactly why the whole world hates USians. You will likely die before that, seeing as how you write like a suburban Facebook Karen — but your children will know full well that you gargled USian balls. They will put your photos away into a box in the farthest corner, and will vow to never be like you.

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        At this point, I am just content not saying the bad word even endearingly in any context, even if I get the pass.

        Or many other bad words. It is just better safe than sorry.

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          ‘Negro’ and derived words weren’t ‘bad’ around the world until USians came along insisting that their usage of language is the only one possible and everyone else must follow.

          They can’t even see the fucking irony.

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            21 hours ago

            Your sooooo confidential wrong my kid, the word is from European slavers before the US even existed as a state, go read some history books before you post.

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