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In reply to the discussion: my friend said, "it is never, ever okay for white people to say (n-word)." [View all]nofurylike
(8,775 posts)because i know people in whose hearts the very sight of swastikas strikes debilitating terror.
using the image was gratuitous, not using it cost the member nothing. they had, of course, every legal right to use it.
i am relieved that people did stop using it.
if media put swastikas on their screens every time they spoke of racism, i would protest it, too. it is nothing for them to use a euphemism instead of the attacking word itself.
the fact that something was DESIGNED to terrorize, degrade, attack WITH IMPUNITY, others, is reason enough to hope that people professing to be humanitarian (aren't liberals supposed to be that?) in nature would commit ourselves to resist using it, and its use by others.
"n-word" not only does not directly attack, it also expresses deeply held concern for those the actual word
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