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Show threadthesporkeffectAug 6, 2024
As always - if you’re saying a word is comparable to the n-word, and you are able to use your word in public as a non-black person, it’s not like the n-word
Show threadTheEntityAug 6, 2024
Frankly that’s something I do not understand. Why this single specific word? We have dozens of terrible offensive words. Why this specific one is considered so bad we cannot even talk about it directly, even when merely discussing it? I would think discussing it and not directing it at someone would be pretty reasonable. As with every single other word.
Show threadJoeBigelowAug 6, 2024
Is one of the other words associated with 200 years of chattel slavery?
Show threadTheEntityAug 6, 2024
Probably no, not in this specific form, that being said I don’t want to compare one tragedy to another. There are lots of disgusting parts of the human history, and that’s certainly one of them.
Show threadJoeBigelow
The only equivalent I can think of starts with k and is a slur for Jewish people, and it’s much less commonly heard.
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Show threadI'm back on my BS đŸ€ȘAug 6, 2024
What about something related to the indigenous peoples of the Americas?
Show threadNuttemanAug 6, 2024
We killed them so fast and displaced the rest that we forgot all the major slurs
Show threadJuniper (she/her) đŸ«Aug 7, 2024

“Savages”, "Redskins”, “Squaw”, and so on.

Some news headlines even refer to the second one as “the R-word”:

CNN: The terrible R-word that football needed to lose

Politico: The R-Word Is Even Worse Than You Think

These are extremely harmful words with hundreds of years of genocide behind them. I imagine the only reason they aren’t censored like the N-word is is because Native Americans make up a proportionally smaller population due to the effectiveness of the genocide, and because the reservation system is in contrast to racial integration as with American black people in so much as it limits interactions between them and racist whites who would overuse a dehumanizing phrase to the same extent.

The terrible R-word that football needed to lose

Our country cannot simultaneously embody equality while also promoting dictionary-defined racial slurs, writes Oneida Indian Nation Representative, Ray Halbritter. The Washington Redskin’s name has been an explicit example of such a slur–America is better for the team dropping it.

CNN
Show threadChickenLadyLovesLifeAug 6, 2024
Ironically enough, that word was coined by Jewish people who had been in the US for generations to describe newly-arrived Jews from Eastern Europe. Still offensive but somewhat different from the n-word.