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Old 12-18-2014, 12:19 AM
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I don't think this girl was a "confused white person". I really think it's a generational thing. The word brings different connotations to a 17yr old and 55yr old. I actually have met true racists in my time, and they are pretty discrete about their viewpoints. Her posting her cake on IG leads me to believe that this girl really didn't think that cake was offensive, which doesn't surprise me much because of her age. She grew up with the N word being all over the place due to hip hop culture, not from it being all over the place due to racism (as other people have lived through).
We could cut her (and her friends that made this cake and took the picture) some slack if she was 8 years old and didn't understand the difference. She is not 8. She is, however, egregiously stupid.

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Not only the use of a racial term, even quoted, but the vulgar concept ... (might be PART of why so little progress is being made against stereotypes)

Why do women want to demean themselves so?
If a man had the equivalent regarding female anatomy on his cake, would you cluck and say "why do men want to demean themselves so?"

It's part of a song and no doubt a silly inside joke. To them it's like - if I would have had the cat from the Paula Abdul video on my cake. It doesn't mean I want to have sex with a cartoon cat.

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We could cut her (and her friends that made this cake and took the picture) some slack if she was 8 years old and didn't understand the difference. She is not 8. She is, however, egregiously stupid.



If a man had the equivalent regarding female anatomy on his cake, would you cluck and say "why do men want to demean themselves so?"

It's part of a song and no doubt a silly inside joke. To them it's like - if I would have had the cat from the Paula Abdul video on my cake. It doesn't mean I want to have sex with a cartoon cat.

Well, yes, I would. We need to hold these YOUNG ADULTS to the expectations that vulgar references to anatomy or sexual acts aren't "cool", they're disgusting, despite "celebrities" who demonstrate otherwise.
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The way you stated it in your post makes it sound like you think the act itself is demeaning.
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