**** Elections thread *****

[CoccoBill]

Clearly you've misunderstood me. Not saying the n-word is merely common sense.

What I have a serious issue with is ignorance. Like someone saying "but Dr Dre says it, why can't I?"

That's of course possible, but deeming someone an asshole just because they use a word in any context would qualify as a serious issue in my book.

[BananaStand]

That's of course possible, but deeming someone an asshole just because they use a word in any context would qualify as a serious issue in my book.

40,000 words in the english language, I've identified 1 that I think is radioactive.

Nobody's perfect I guess.

C'mon man, just go back re-read the discussion from today. There is no good reason for a non-black person to use that word. Either your'e saying purposefully to cause harm, or you're doing it out of some retarded sense of white-victimhood. Both are just wrong, and we're all better off if we just shut that shit out of the public discourse.

Only a complete ass hole would feel a need to hold on to any kind of 'right' to use that word.

[Poopadoop]

@Banana

You've oversimplified the issue into the word having a pejorative connotation when any white person uses it regardless of context.

I'm comfortable in using the word 'nigger' when discussing in what context saying 'nigger' is offensive. And since the majority would agree with me that it's not being used offensively when used in a meta-linguistic sense, then I see no reason not to use it.

I also don't have a problem with you not wanting to use it ever; that's your right.

Lastly, I'm indifferent to whether or not you or coco or any other individual thinks I should use it because no one person represents a consensus.

[CoccoBill]

Lastly, I'm indifferent to whether or not you or coco or any other individual thinks I should use it because no one person represents a consensus.

What's the number of people with an opinion to make you care about what they think? 4 billion would be consensus I guess. Is there a place where I can check what the consensus is on this and similar matters?

[Poopadoop]

What's the number of people with an opinion to make you care about what they think? 4 billion would be consensus I guess. Is there a place where I can check what the consensus is on this and similar matters?

Haha. I don't think about it as if there were a poll being taken. The different meanings of the word 'nigger' and when they are enacted are pretty clearly understood afaik. Though to be fair if it changes any time soon I doubt I will be one of the first to know.