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Originally Posted by CHIEF4EVER
Actually, YES. If you are offended by the term, you are offended by the term and that is understandable and to be respected......BY EVERYONE REGARDLESS OF PIGMENTATION AT BIRTH. Being of the same birth pigmentation as someone using a racial slur doesn't give them the right to use a term so "offensive" if people of other birth pigmentations can't say the same without causing offense. This concept is called APPLICATION OF A SINGLE STANDARD.
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Ridiculous. There's not a single person in the entire world that applies the standard you profess. If there is, I'd like to see the bubble they live in.
The point I'm trying to make is that you are viewing the issue from your perspective ... as the speaker. ("What am I allowed to say? If I can't say it they can't say it.") You are not viewing it from the perspective of the person who truly matters, the recipient of the comment.
What you are saying is that if I call you some curse word, that is the exact same thing as if your significant other or your best friend from work, school, wherever had said it, even if they say it in jest? That you will be offended equally all the way around?
Ask yourself why anyone is offended when someone else makes a racial slur towards them? It's not just because someone used some particular forbidden string of syllables. It's the hatred, the disrespect, the mean-spiritedness that the word conveys. That's why I don't get offended when one of my buddies greets me on the phone with "what's up asshole?" -- because I know that he's not conveying a message of disrepect toward me by calling me that. But if a "stranger" calls me that, I have no way to know that. Context.