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Date Posted: 20:01:44 08/02/07 Thu
Author: Paul S.
Subject: Re: Euphemisms
In reply to: Toy tiger 's message, "Re: Euphemisms" on 19:55:45 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.

Ditto. I cannot deny them the right to use the word but, like you say, isn't it just self-abasement. It isn't uplifting no matter who uses it.

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  • 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 -- Condensed Jones, 13:41:07 08/03/07 Fri
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