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Originally Posted by Conskeeted7
These issues are not comparable at all. I still cannot believe that white people cannot understand why the connotation when they use 'racial slang' is different than when used by people of the same race. Since apparently most white people are not willing to acknowledge that difference, evidenced by their continued attempts at incorporating it into their dialogues, the best solution for white people is to just leave that language alone. This is especially true since there's such a negative outcry when it's used. Why keep trying? Why worry about it? Why all of a sudden is white America so concerned with the language that blacks use toward each other? I'm not buying the double standard crap. White people don't use that kind of language for any positive reason. Who are we really kidding here?
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Did you not read the rest of my post?
I don't support whites using the language, nor do I support cries of "double standard" - I do, however, think your 'best solution' is actively detrimental to the efforts of intelligent people to actually help with racial inequality in this country.
However, I also buy DSTChaos's point re: average intelligence . . . so there's that, I guess.