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Originally posted by Eclipse
If I am white and have a hang out with a lot of black people who constantly say "My N" this and "that N's crazy" in a quest to belong or feel cool I can see it slipping out, even though intellectually I know it is wrong.
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The problem is that folks need to get out of that mindset...
There is no qualification for profanity among intelligent discussion if only used to hone a point or to exaggerate the context... Some folks are just exhibitionists and use profane language for shock value only... Just because they can use it doesn't make it right...
Still others are just ignorant...
And I think that is what has happened to Sensuret's bloke
Ironically, while in England, the folks told my husband and I that "pap" was a "slur"... We just laughed--probably like little kids laugh when they first say bad words... But, nonetheless, since we didn't know how to use it in a sentence we'd never would use the word...
Funny how when learning a new language and/or lexicon only the bad words are the ones that we remember the most... I wonder why?