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Old 01-28-2013, 05:17 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by Fish View Post
You're right, it always depends on the situation and setting. So again, why risk it? Why bother? Why not just use some term that doesn't have the potential to offend someone and make you look ignorant? I mean you admit that you're only comfortable saying it around friends, which acknowledges that you know how much it could offend someone. I don't understand it and I've never heard an explanation that makes sense.
I actually said I don't use the word myself; therefore, I can't argue the merits of its use. I'm just giving my take on it..

It only makes me uncomfortable to hear it in certain situations, not even because it is the word that it is, but because I look at it just like any other foul word. I cringe when I hear people calling each other "****a" too much/loudly in public much the same as I do when I hear a guy call his friend a "pillowbitergot" or someone says "****" in front of children or old people.

As far as the motivations for the people that do use the word, I can't say. I think it was Micjones that once linked to a passage from a book about Martin Luther King Jr in which it states that even he used the word. I want to say he did so in a playful ribbing manner (kind of making fun of white people for saying it) and it stuck; can't remember for sure though.
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