U Maryland: Birthday Cake Pic on Instagram

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by exlurker

As if GCers needed a reminder -- be careful about what you post on Instagram (or Facebook or other social media sites

No. That's not the lesson here. The lesson is "don't use racist language."

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

No. That's not the lesson here. The lesson is "don't use racist language."

Doesn't that lesson apply to Three 6 Mafia who wrote the song?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

Doesn't that lesson apply to Three 6 Mafia who wrote the song?

No.

[Sen's Revenge]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

Doesn't that lesson apply to Three 6 Mafia who wrote the song?

No. People from marginalized groups have always been able to use language like this in their own art and within their own communities.

If a white person has a problem with what people of color say to each other in our own circles, they really ought to question why they want to use a racial slur so badly in the first place.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

No. People from marginalized groups have always been able to use language like this in their own art and within their own communities.

If a white person has a problem with what people of color say to each other in our own circles, they really ought to question why they want to use a racial slur so badly in the first place.

Maybe because they hear the word regularly. That regular usage makes it part of their vocabulary. If people want the word to die so badly, stop using it. To a 21 year old, that word is probably more of a song lyric than a racial slur.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

No. People from marginalized groups have always been able to use language like this in their own art and within their own communities.

If a white person has a problem with what people of color say to each other in our own circles, they really ought to question why they want to use a racial slur so badly in the first place.

Respectfully Sen, perhaps the problem here is that the Internet, TV, movies and music are NOT part of your "own circle" or "within their own community."

People of any color using such offensive language IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN does give SOME people the excuse that it is OK for them to use it. If the language is offensive, maybe don't put it out there so flippantly in public.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

No. People from marginalized groups have always been able to use language like this in their own art and within their own communities.

If a white person has a problem with what people of color say to each other in our own circles, they really ought to question why they want to use a racial slur so badly in the first place.

Isn't your argument that black people want to use it so badly? I haven't said one thing advocating anyone's use of that word, but you are defending its use. I guess I am just a confused white person, as DrPhil so kindly put it.