If You Could Use The N-Word On ATOT - How Would You?

[Newell Steamer]

The President can say it.

Your black 'friends' can say it.

But, you can't say it here.

If you could, how would you?


Nah.
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[chimaxi83]

This thread will go far, but

 

[dank69]

IBTL

 

[dank69]

The President can say it.

All my black 'friend' can say it.

But, you can't say it here.

If you could, how would you?

Fixed, by the way. Shamelessly stolen from Amy Schumer.

 

[poofyhairguy]

We do already in code.

 

[CraKaJaX]

raging moron.

 

[WelshBloke]

See link

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2402845&highlight=

 

[Rakehellion]

White people be all like this

and black people be all like this

.

 

[BoomerD]

Stop being a n*gger.








(*=a)

 

[TwiceOver]

I can't?

 

[preslove]

We can't say naggers here?

 

[Murloc]

I don't have any black friends, does that make me racist?

We do already in code.

this is pretty funny.

I wonder why racists haven't been using this one instead of urban youth as a code word.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I wouldn't use it.

 

[LevelSea]

I'd call the OP one, but that's it.

 

[K7SN]

The only place I heard that word used in school (1950s) was the start to play the game of tag when the you'd say let's play tag and instead of saying OK another person would chant the rhyme "Eeny Meeny Miny Moe pointing on each word to a different potential player. It would end with "teacher told me to pick the very best one and that is you!". the person pointed at was it and the rest of the players would scatter. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe and what Wikipedia refers to as earlier versions. It was used at recess by everyone black or white. By the time I got too old to play tag I don't recall hearing or reading the word except in literature like Orion Clemens' brother Sam's book Huck Finn or Jack London describing a geologic term: From USGS Bulletin #89; "..rough, bowlder-like masses, from a foot to 2 feet in diameter,
locally known as "n*****-heads," which are frequently abundant.."

Then enlisting, after getting my draft notice, so as to do something other than being fodder for guys in black pajama (The term fodder being - One who's sole existence is to absorb projectiles) I quickly learned that the word could be pejorative. " as when a black DI sergeant would insult are first attempts of marching in step. Now the word was an insult but applied to recruits of all colors.

Three and a half years later my good friend and fellow one-term draft escapee Tom were now sergeants assigned stateside to end our enlistment. They had stationed us at Nellis AFB located in the Vegas Valley (Where I was born and other than time in service have always lived). All NCOs below the rank of Tech Sergeant (E-6) had to about every month and a half pull CQ (Charge of Quarters) duty where you answered the phone, signed in personnel returning from leave or those transferred to the squadron (Air Force term the same as Company in the Army) reporting in alive the Squadron Commander and First Sergeant had escaped for the day. About 9:30 this large gentle Negro E-2, straight out of technical school, reported in. I was in the office portion of this building that also served as a Recreation room after hours. There were several brothers (Term used by African American in the 60s) playing pool. They greeted him with a "What's happenin' Bro" and he replied "Excuse me!" in the bloody Queens best English. Turns out his father was a GM executive and he grew up in Dearborn Michigan, living in one of those massive houses with a couple acres of grass between the house and the street and he attended the best of school as the only person of color. He didn't fit in at all. My Sergeant friend Tom (Who was also black) sort of adopted him. When Tom and I got discharged, he moved in with me and we both went to college (GI Bill) , raced cars, and such. Tom taught both the Dearborn Kid (We called him Tiny as he was 6' 5" and 250 pounds) how to use that n-word to describe "unpleasant work", manual labor, and such and at 22 I used the word for about five months. Tom and I would double date and switch dates before going into a popular dance hall (Still before Discos). Tom would walk in with my Blonde Girlfriend and all the brothers would give him those "way to go looks" and a minute or two later I'd walk in with his African American squeeze of the month. The same brothers would glare at me and their dates would give the girl the "Way to go look." I came to realize what pejorative behavior was all about.

On day Tom and I went to Sears to get some Craftsman tools on sale and after leaving and almost all the way home, Tom started lamenting that he had forgotten to exchange a tool (Lifetime warrant) we had broken and I, now a mile from home and five miles from sears was chagrined he hadn't thought of it sooner. We quarreled as friends do and I said something I'll always regret; I said he was acting "Like a stupid n-word!" Silence filled the car, he ran in and exchanged the mangled screwdriver or whatever and returned and when he finally spoke he just said "I wish you wouldn't use that word when you mean it!" Well I didn't mean it but I had blurted it out and I resolved never to say that word again.

it is not your intent but the listeners perception that "like all lives" matters. The n-word is worst than "Jap", "Kraut" or "Whop" we applied in WWII to our enemies, because it is applied to our countryman. The problem like that a pejorative term "beloved patriot" as applied after 9/11 just incites our enemies and wounds our friends; witness the Mosque in Chattanooga that canceled their celebration of the first day of the Shawwal, (a most important day of celebrating breaking the fast of Ramadan), to join in prayer at the Christian church following the horrific shootings. Such words do not make anything better, why use them.

My favorite pejorative term is cockroach, the scumbag I'm addressing knows I've taken umbrage at him or her exclusively and I don't give a fat rat's arse what a cockroach perceives.

 

[who?]

Sikhs wear turbans I don't know if muslims do.

 

[Mai72]

No!

We live in a different world now! It's much more friendlier and cuddlier.

 

[cirrrocco]

The only place I heard that word used in school (1950s) was the start to play the game of tag when the you'd say let's play tag and instead of saying OK another person would chant the rhyme "Eeny Meeny Miny Moe pointing on each word to a different potential player. ......
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real life story? Thanks.