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Date Posted: 19:55:45 08/02/07 Thu
Author: Toy tiger
Subject: Re: Euphemisms
In reply to: Johnny Reb 's message, "Re: Euphemisms" on 17:59:46 08/02/07 Thu

>don't get me wrong, i do not use the word "nigger" on
>blacks although some of them use it for themselves.
>why should they be permitted to use it and not me as i
>am white? i don't understand this at all.

Yeah, we see that here. When I was a child, 'nigger' was the word by which we commonly referred to black people. I didn't realize it was perjorative. I am sure I heard teachers use it in school, and it had been used in literature and schoolyard rhymes. Then 'negro' became the acceptable time for a while, then 'african-american (Canadian)' and now I think the acceptable term is 'black.' That's the one I use at present, anyway.

And now black people refer to themselves as 'niggers' but white people can't (and IMHO shouldn't want to.) I find the term unacceptable no matter who is using it. There is something wrong, to me, when a black person uses the term, as if self-abasement is somehow OK. It makes me uneasy.

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Replies:

Re: Euphemisms -- Paul S., 20:01:44 08/02/07 Thu
Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb (clueless), 20:22:41 08/02/07 Thu
- Re: Euphemisms -- Toy tiger, 22:08:53 08/02/07 Thu
  - Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 22:28:58 08/02/07 Thu
    - Re: Euphemisms -- Michael, 08:54:00 08/03/07 Fri
    - Re: Euphemisms -- Rumbustuous Jones, 13:46:58 08/03/07 Fri
      - Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 14:00:26 08/03/07 Fri
        Re: Euphemisms -- Confused Jones, 18:54:54 08/03/07 Fri
        Re: Euphemisms -- Organ Morgan, 03:34:23 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Phantom Jones, 04:54:59 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 06:03:28 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 06:09:21 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Organ Morgan, 07:27:31 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Angel Jones, 11:52:50 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 12:59:49 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Niobe Jones, 17:31:13 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 17:49:14 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Hyperbole Jones, 19:21:26 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 19:31:48 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Paul S., 20:51:48 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb (:-)), 21:36:16 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Narrowboat Jones, 09:57:24 08/05/07 Sun
        Re: Euphemisms -- Organ Morgan, 14:38:39 08/05/07 Sun
  - Re: Euphemisms -- Subsidiary Jones, 13:45:20 08/03/07 Fri
- Re: Euphemisms -- Condensed Jones, 13:41:07 08/03/07 Fri
  - Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 14:08:29 08/03/07 Fri
    - Re: Euphemisms -- Michael, 15:54:04 08/04/07 Sat
      - Re: Euphemisms -- Johnny Reb, 16:06:03 08/04/07 Sat
        Re: Euphemisms -- Michael, 07:27:57 08/05/07 Sun