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Originally Posted by cutie_cat_4ever
I guess I should clarify a bit more, that while I think that it's inappropriate to call people with names (and heck, I've been called names too since I'm non-white), you have to admit that the younger generation isn't exposed to what the African Americans had suffer in the past, they do not realize that "seriousness" of this word. And it doesn't help that certain music genres use of such rasicts words (also sexist if you want, different versions of racial slur), it makes does in fact make people less and less aware of how much insult and harm by just saying those words can do.
yet again, that's just how I see it...  |
Right, but Richards is 58. I think older people, him included, are VERY aware of the seriousness of the word and how much of an insult it is.