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Originally Posted by allen_kcCard
I don't really understand how that word has so much power, either for someone saying, it, or more importantly lately, someone else accusing another of using it, even if they didn't at all.
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The reason is the power it's given :
Some people view it as an excuse to not control their behavior, as in "he n-worded at me so I shot him because of feelings. Raysussism. Pity me because my great-great grandmother got sold by her own people for a bag of suger and a bottle of West Indies rum."
Even though slavery still exists in the Middle East and Africa today...no one gives a SHIT about THOSE black people.
Others, view it as a badge of their own inherent virtue, as if the very thought of addressing someone in such a manner bothers them to their core so much it's almost sickening...
And then there's people like me, who understand that there are two different words with two different meanings :
Negro, which comes from the latin "negra", meaning "dark." A Negro is a dark-skinned person. A Mulatto is someone born to one dark-skinned and one light-skinned parent.
The word '****ardly' comes from Greek origins, and it means simply to be sneaky, shady and untoward in dealings with others, to attempt to steal in an obvious manner.
They got combined.
It's not "good" or "bad". It just...is.
People don't even know what words mean.
They call people "racist" and can't even ****ing define the term.
It's a joke. Racism is a social constuct designed to keep people seperated and to keep the 1% in power, which is why I don't believe in it, and say whatever to whoever I want. Period.
I don't call my black friends the hard-r version for the same reason I don't call the women in my life "whore" or "bitch" - I don't like to make people feel bad.
Doesn't mean I haven't done those things. The worst things I've ever done, the most hurtful things I've ever done...have been some of the things I've said. And if I'm REALLY pissed and filtering shit through my trauma...I'll say the most hateful things. It's probably my most toxic trait.
But calling someone the "hard-r version" when I'm straight up triggered and trauma responding doesn't make me a racist, any more than calling my ex-wife a dizzy **** makes me a misogynist.
Context absolutely matters, and people also need to know what words mean.
I wonder if Detoxing can give us definitions on the "hard-r version" and the "soft a version"?