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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
sure, what's your point?
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My point is we pick and choose what insults are acceptable based on social norms not on how much pain they inflict on the disenfranchised. So really I’m not that impressed with people getting all outraged about the word n igger when the way they think about language tells me if the lived 60 years ago they’d be using it as a matter of course. Because it’s just following social norms not genuinely reflecting on what’s right and wrong.
I know this argument will likely get me nowhere because **** that makes people really look in the mirror rarely does.