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Originally Posted by CHIEF4EVER
What you just posted is a pitiful attempt to substantiate a double standard regards how people express themselves to others. It is known in other circles as HYPOCRISY. I am sure you are intelligent enough to know that your friend calling you "asshole" in jest is nothing like him using a universally recognized racial slur. Those who are offended by the term (the racial slur) are right for being offended by it - but that doesn't give them leave to be SELECTIVELY indignant if the same slur is used by a certain ethnic group over another. Either the term is RIGHT to use or it is WRONG to use.
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You seem to think that language can only be considered objectively, black and white so to speak, and that's just not the way anyone operates. My hypothetical does make sense because even two hypothetical strangers calling me an "asshole" might be doing so in completely different contexts, and that context is going to govern my reaction. You don't just have some automatic reaction that your brain calls up and automatically uses 100% of the time every time someone calles you an "asshole".
To equate Chappelle using the n-word with some skinhead using the n-word, and to say that you either have to be equally offended by both or offended by neither, is reeruned. Once again, you are refusing to look at it from the perspective of WHY the racial ephitet is offensive to the target of the ephitet in the first place.