If you start getting upset at every white person who uses racial slurs online you're going to have a bad time

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Sigh..... As a middle-aged African-American, I think you're seeing two things. One, this is just you're basic character defense. Being angry or frustrated doesn't "make" you do anything. What it does is **disinhibit** you. IOW, it makes the sort of things that you THINK.....but normally have the self-control and judgement to CENSOR....more likely to actually come out of your mouth. I don't live in a world where spouting racial slurs is in ANY way shape or form "okay". So there is no amount of "mad" or "frustrated" you can make me that will result in that slur----or any other---popping out of my mouth. So that's just an excuse, and trying to save face. The other---and I think more deeply troubling---- is that we're seeing a generational divide over these words. I was born in the years immediately after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. So I'm the first generation of African-American to grow up and live in the US without either slavery or de jure/ de facto segregation being the social order. As a result, the world in which I grew up and lived in was VERY different than the one in which my parents grew up. My mother was raised to adulthood under Jim Crow in Maryland....where the use of that dehumanizing word as so common and the racism that fueled it so "in your face"...that my mother litereally told me one day, "Growing up, I got called 'n----r' so much I thought it was part of my name." Personally growing up in the 70s and 80s, racism was still---in your face enough----that I have been called, in anger and to my face---every racial slur for blacks that you can imagine. And probably a few you haven't heard of. But I didn't have to deal with the constant, grinding, constantly in-your-face, dehumanizing shaming of the sort of racism that my parents dealt with the 40s and 50s. So I think the problem is that----with Millenials---- they have had the benefit of the progress that the rest of us have worked so hard to create. A world where that sort of blantant racism is so socially unacceptable in polite society and in the professional world....that you can't even WRITE that word anymore. Never mind "speak its name.". The result, Imo, has led to three things. One---among well-intentioned but well-educated people----you have the effort to "finish the job". To continue to push for that point where we are all truly equal. Two---you have this ugly underbelly of racist backlash. That has been fuelled by the desperation of demographic change, and the economic hardships of the last decade. Lastly----you have people for whom the brutal reality of past racism is "unreal" to them---and these racial slurs are just "another insult". Just like kids of my generation used to sling around words that would be considered in todays environment to be homophobic slurs. We'd say them to insult the person we were mad at....not as an insult to gay people per se. That doesn't make it any more acceptable...and I had to grew out of the habit of doing that. Times change, and people need to change with them. But I think that what we're dealing with here isn't someone who's a "racist" per se. But someone who was probably is just profoundly ignorant to the history of some of the words he lets out of his mouth, and simply doesn't know that many of us consider those words irredeemable. There needs to be consequences for him----because this is apparently not the first time he's had one of these on-air "accidents". But I admit that I'm not sure what those consequences should be.

Nah. Should pewds (or anyone) say these things in rage? Hell no. Does that automatically make them racist? No. As a black male i don't think pewds is racist for saying it. Hell, Idubbz says it and doesn't get condemned. Tana mojojojojo said it and people were quick to forgive her. We can't just suddenly pick and choose when we give a shit when people say any racial slur. Quite frankly that's what a shit ton of people do. Either condemn them hard or just don't even bother if your just gonna forgive them like *snaps finger* that. Do i like the word? Of course not.

I take Pewdiepie's side. Just like I took IDubbbzTV's side. Just like I took Bill Maher's side. I don't care. I know he's not racist. 57 million people know that and don't care. He's not saying to anyone specifically as an insult because they're black. He just cursed because he got angry. Nobody cares except goof SJWs that create outrage over nothing. But, the media will attack him for it because he's popular and steals eyes from them. Dozens of other Youtubers say it all the time and don't get shit for it. It's a word. Don't give power to it. Especially when it's not used in a bad way like at a black person in a negative way.

It's weird hearing white people say it, even in a non-serious way. That said, most of my mates say it because it's "edgy" for white peeps and we Australians have become accustomed to casual swearing to the point that they don't mean anything and the term "casual swearing" can be said unironically.

Must be a slow day for lib propaganda eh max? Now, to address the issue. I'm assuming you think he's racist for using it, but I'm going to say he's not, he's ignorant. He's swedish, not american, so chances are either he doesn't know there's a negative connotation, or he doesn't think about it, because he doesn't live in the part of the world where it got it's negative connotation. Now, does this mean he should be immune to consequences? No, it doesn't, ignorance usually has consequences. That being said I find it strange that racial slurs aren't taboo for everyone. You would think that if someone found a word offensive, they wouldn't use it themselves. I understand some people say they use it to "reclaim" the word. If that was the case, wouldn't anyone be able to use it without reprocussion? Also, I find it strange that we have a double standard on the usage of slurs. Slurs against minorities are not tolerated and taboo, and if used can ruin the career and life of the person who used it, yet slurs against a non minority are completely fine for anyone to say regardless of race.

Another shitpost. But no I don't. Who does that? ~ Making America Great Again ~

Okay, so?

The n word hasnt taken off much in the australian language. We just yell f[b]u[/b]ck, shit or c[b]u[/b]nt out loud and that does it.

Does that mean Always Sunny is racist for using black face for Lethal Weapon 5 & 6?

The monster! At least you're there to be offended for the sake of the global black community. Casual racism is a whole other thing altogether.

No, but I'm gonna start now that that pussy ass cuck developer thinks he can control streamers lives. Pewdiepie is far from the first person to say that while playing videogames. Why not carpetban 11 million call of duty players? Or does it only matter when a famous white person says it?

Only when I'm driving and the person who I'm having road rage at is black

Yeah, I'm tired of N-words acting like the run the world now since we had a N-word president, they also think they run sports and music, and just $#!+ on America history because it makes them feel better about slavery, so I say this,(F*** you N-words)... nuff said

Anyone who gets offended by only words is part of the problem.

Yes, yes I do. When I am hanging out with my friends that use it a lot, then I sometimes say it. The difference is in the intent. If I am repeating what someone said or we are playing around, then it is fine because there is no anger, no hate. I would never walk up to a random & say it, I don't know the person, I am not about to insult them like that. My group, we are a mixed bag of damn loonies from all walks of life. We talk so much shit to each other, we throw racial slurs at each other, insults about religion, sexual orientation, gender, intelligence, gaming skill, driving skill, etc. If there is a way we could call each other a tree & make it insulting, you can bet your ass we do and then we either laugh or we tell the other how weak that comeback was. We all did time in the warehouse & when you are loading boxes in a trailer, it keeps your mind awake to talk shit. We have nothing but love for each other & if we are fine with it, who are you or anyone else to judge us, just so long as we are not roasting your ass.