Right, and since the word is one directed at black people shouldn't they have at least some say, if not all, if they should say that word should be one that should be allowed public usage?
And that those that use that word, which has no utilitarian usage on God's green earth these days other then for people niggling that they should be able to say whatever they wish without any socio-political consequence. In other words their words should have no power... which kind of goes against why the American government is shackled from going after the words of her citizens.
However, the citizens themselves can dictate which words are and are not decent within a particular forum.
In that vein, it's ironic that those on the right argue that if they use that N-word with frequency it will no longer have any meaning. I would argue the word has already been long dead in decent society for a long time and only been dug up by etymological necrophiliacs who wish to make love to its dead corpse.
Forgive society if they find such interactions a bit off-putting. We tend to like living words.
And to say that utilizing a word whom's main purpose was to demean a group of human beings is more civil to use in public spaces than telling someone to in effect "leave me alone" or "Don't tread on me" in a less politically correct manner? That logic is so warped if you spoke them as a crew member of the Voyager you could have returned the star ship to the Alpha Quadrant in no time.
Right, and since the word is one directed at black people shouldn't they have at least some say, if not all, if they should say that word should be one that should be allowed public usage?
And that those that use that word, which has no utilitarian usage on God's green earth these days other then for people niggling that they should be able to say whatever they wish without any socio-political consequence. In other words their words should have no power... which kind of goes against why the American government is shackled from going after the words of her citizens.
However, the citizens themselves can dictate which words are and are not decent within a particular forum.
In that vein, it's ironic that those on the right argue that if they use that N-word with frequency it will no longer have any meaning. I would argue the word has already been long dead in decent society for a long time and only been dug up by etymological necrophiliacs who wish to make love to its dead corpse.
Forgive society if they find such interactions a bit off-putting. We tend to like living words.
And to say that utilizing a word whom's main purpose was to demean a group of human beings is more civil to use in public spaces than telling someone to in effect "leave me alone" or "Don't tread on me" in a less politically correct manner? That logic is so warped if you spoke them as a crew member of the Voyager you could have returned the star ship to the Alpha Quadrant in no time.
But you're still no hero.