Then why do blacks call each other niggers to one another ALL the time, and it's socially acceptable. How are they ANY different than me? And it's not the homeless part...It's the begging and not wanting to work.
Colorful insults - Racist or not?
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Its part of the culture over there that is a bit different to here. Some of the black community have almost took that word and turned the meaning around like you were trying to describe before. But they turned the meaning from something negative to something positive. That was how it was meant to be I think in your point., Thing is, it doesn't really work when a white person says it. in my opinion. I don't know why that has become socially acceptable in America for black guys to say to one another.
A lot of the use of that word to use as slang for friends or people in gangs came out of the fake glamourising of gangster culture when hiphop became commercialised and turned into the pop-drivel rap that you see in the charts now. I blame big co-operate music publishers that pushed the fake-gangster crap and made real positive hiphop go underground.
It is the way language develops. I do see your point though. It seems unfair but personally i think it sounds a bit racist when you use the word just to describe someone like a tramp. That is taking the negative meaning and applying it to describe something badly. If you were using it positevely i think its different but still a bit racist, in my view. I don't hear asians going around calling each other 'paki's here, which is a racist word people use. Slightly different in UK than america of course...
There is probably essays on this, and how the use of the word 'nigger' is used to oppress or the meaning has changed and developed. I personally don't think it helps equality and unity when people use that word, to me it is still strongly bound to negative and racist connetations. no hard feelings
A lot of the use of that word to use as slang for friends or people in gangs came out of the fake glamourising of gangster culture when hiphop became commercialised and turned into the pop-drivel rap that you see in the charts now. I blame big co-operate music publishers that pushed the fake-gangster crap and made real positive hiphop go underground.
It is the way language develops. I do see your point though. It seems unfair but personally i think it sounds a bit racist when you use the word just to describe someone like a tramp. That is taking the negative meaning and applying it to describe something badly. If you were using it positevely i think its different but still a bit racist, in my view. I don't hear asians going around calling each other 'paki's here, which is a racist word people use. Slightly different in UK than america of course...
There is probably essays on this, and how the use of the word 'nigger' is used to oppress or the meaning has changed and developed. I personally don't think it helps equality and unity when people use that word, to me it is still strongly bound to negative and racist connetations. no hard feelings
