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12/19/2014 6:03:05 PM
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A word is a word is a word is a word.
The only component that single handedly gives a word power is people. If people CHOOSE to be offended by certain words or allow it to be a word that hurts them, they give it power, and therefore in doing so give power to those who wish to hurt them.
If people stop allowing these words to be taken in such a light, the power is gone, and thus the word reverts back from a powerful heavy word to a word that's just another piece of a sentence.
Personally, myself and those whom I know use ever colorful word under the sun whenever we feel like it and often refrain from letting a word keep one constant definition.
Examples you say? Splendid!
Take "bitch" for example; female dog.
Other uses are plenty and vast!
-Disapproval of someone: "What a bitch."
-To claim someone is hurtful: "She's a bitch"
-To belittle someone: "Don't be a bitch, do it!"
-Show excitement: "YEAH, BITCH!"
-A greeting: "Hey bitch", "Whatsup bitch"
-A farewell saying: "Later bitch", "Peace bitch"
-Frustration: "I died! Bitch ass game!"
-Compliment: "Shit bitch you fine", "Bad bitch"
-Expressing anger: "SON OF A BITCH!!"
-Disappointment: "Ain't that a bitch...."
-Pride: "Now THATS a meal. Look at that bitch."
-Casual: "Yeah this phone is quick, bitch downloads instantly to stream"
There are a hundred different ways to use and apply a word, you can use it in so many ways for so many things that the main meaning of the word gets lost in the mix and it just becomes another everyday part of speech.
English
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Edited by Andrenden: 12/20/2014 6:09:09 AMThis guy gets it. It's only bad if you INSIST on bastardizing the word. Nig*er is an ignorant person, regardless of race. It only ended up being applied to the black community as a whole because many were uneducated and thus ignorant. The word was used correctly at the start and we've only bastardized it to mean a person of a specific race. You can read it in literature still and it doesn't always refer to a black person.
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You cannot be serious, right? The bastardisation of the word is to use it to describe anything except a dark skinned person, since it comes from negro. The only thing remotely related to ignorance in this thread is you.
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Edited by Andrenden: 12/20/2014 10:49:37 AMEDIT; Meh, -blam!- it. Not worth arguing the point you'll just retaliate again anyway.
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Yeah I probably would, considering what you've said is wrong and you also managed to work in a completely racist stereotype about black people being ignorant at the same time as being wrong.
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I didn't, though according to my copy of websters years old the definition is, in fact, ignorant persons and specifies no race for that definition. I.E. I have no issues calling you a -blam!- with that definition. And it's not a stereotype. The word was used for uneducated people, of which blacks WERE mostly uneducated at the time of it's usage. But again it didn't specify a race and anyone could have been one. Once again it doesn't matter what I say because you'll just always insist you are right and even insisted that I called all black people stupid. Tl;dr You're still a -blam!- and you don't even have to be black.
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Please, read me this magical definition, because the 1913 Webster definition starts with "a negro", specifying race right off the bat. I don't know what fantasy world you're living in, but the etymology of the word -blam!- is negro, which means black, and any connotations of ignorance are secondary.
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Now replace "bitch" with today's topic and now we're talkin' ;p
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Edited by THUNDERBOLT1960: 12/20/2014 12:36:45 PMCAN'T believe I wasted 3 minutes of my life reading this dribble.
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Oh no, did your ice melt!?
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I agree with you...and I also read that in Jessie Pinkman's voice.
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Agreed, plus the n word doesn't literally have anything to with race, and if these people attache prejudice meaning to the word it's they who are -blam!-ed up
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Anyone who tries to cover up with the "it's just a word" shit or "it doesn't mean anything" is indeed, a phucking racist
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You can make that claim if you wish, but literally [i]the ONLY source of power for a word and how we say it, when we say it, and what it means are PEOPLE. [/i] For example, I'm irish. The irish were hated by many "real Americans" when we came over. We were poor, foreign, starving, and desperate. Some did whatever it took to come up with a way to escape and make it to America for all kinds of reasons. Many who came over were slaves themselves or indentured servants, and we were discriminated against, forbidden to go certain places, beaten, killed, tortured, those who DID find work did jobs like digging trenches and canals for a fraction of what they should've been paid and often not paid at all. The irish are called "Paddys", and "Micks", and "Bog pigs", that's our version of the "N" word. Paddy- Many Irishmen were named Patrick, so it began as calling us "Paddys" because "we're all the same" or don't deserve to be seen as individuals. Mick- Many irish last names begin with Mc, and we began being called Micks because of that, again with the "you're all the same to me" as well as "the sound of an irish drunk's hiccups". Both tie in with stereotypes of all irish being drunks and "pigs" that beat their wives and fight each other. That ties into terms like "Paddy wagon", in reference to the police vans that would arrive to arrest people to take them to jail. The Irish were mocked and harassed and fights would break out, or false reports were made out of dislike for "our kind", and they'd round is up in the vans and take us to jail. "Oh here comes the paddy wagon to round up some micks!" The racist slang term for Hispanic people "Spics/Spicks" actually came from "Micks". Around the time the Irish began to settle into America, Spanish people began to come over as well. Both groups were met with hatred and discrimination, and seeing that the Irish and Spanish shared religious beliefs and some customs, they shared neighborhoods, shopped at the same places, went to the same churches, and led to them being called "Spicks", Spanish Micks. There are a slew of racist and offensive terms and hurtful stereotypes about my people, and I know many who would gladly sit in a cell for a while for beating on someone who'd even utter one of those terms, I used to get offended too, but I stopped. I stopped letting those words be a source of hurt or embarrassment or anger for me, and instead just accepted them as any other word without any significance or special meaning, and I found that I was far happier and at the same time I heard those terms and phrases being used against me or those I know less and less. I said it once and I'll say it again, [i]the only thing that gives a word the power is people.[/i] If people change the way they see a word, they change the power a word has over them. Call me a Mick, a Paddy, a Bog boy, a taig, a Fenian, call me those things if you like, but they don't effect me, never again will they hold a negative meaning to me, [b]I won't allow it[/b]. With close friends it may be a term of endearment, and with strangers it can be any other word in our language, [b]it won't hurt me or impact me [u]because I won't allow it to[/u]. [/b]
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Don't be so butt hurt.
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Don't be so generic- oh wait too late for that haha! Seems you can't come up with any original jokes so let's just say what everyone is saying because idk how to think myself. If you were next to a garbage can I wouldn't even be able to tell the difference. Stfu and kill yourself you idiot.
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Bitch doesn't have a hundred years of slavery and violent acts of racism tied to it. Yes its just a word. You know it offends people in a different way so why would you want to use it?
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This needs to be at the top.
