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The N-Word

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Lil Pun, May 16, 2003.

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Is It Ever OK to use the N-Word?

  1. Yes, it is OK anytime whether you use the "gger" or "gga" ending.

    9 vote(s)
    6.7%
  2. Yes, it is OK for anybody as long as it is the "gga" ending.

    15 vote(s)
    11.1%
  3. Yes, it is OK to describe "bad black people".

    13 vote(s)
    9.6%
  4. Yes, it is OK for black people and black people ONLY to use it.

    30 vote(s)
    22.2%
  5. Yes, it is OK for all people except whites to use it.

    9 vote(s)
    6.7%
  6. Yes, it is OK to describe bad or ignorant people.

    5 vote(s)
    3.7%
  7. It is a word that should never be used, NO MATTER WHAT!

    54 vote(s)
    40.0%
  1. Lil Pun

    Lil Pun Member

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    MY theory is that everybody makes a prejudgement based on race hence RACISM! It's my theory I didn't say it was fact and there is no way you can prove or disprove it and neither can I or anyone else. You may say you can disprove it by saying that you are not racist but how do we know what you are really thinking sub-conciously? There's no way to tell so it cannot be proved it's just something that I think.

    I say I hate the state of Arkansas, not the people in it. I just hate Arkansas because there is nothing to do here. I have no problem with the people in it, so no I am not racist against all Arkansans.
     
  2. Lil Pun

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    No I would not accuse you of being racist if you didn't like an article of his clothing, house, car, or other personal possesion. That's just an idiotic statement on your part.
     
  3. DavidS

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    Oh my! Here we go. So, you make a statement, call it a theory, but can't prove it. How nice...

    So much for your theory. Oh, and tell me how you are going to prove this since you will never be able to look into another persons mind. So, that would mean if everyone one the face of the planet had a "racist" thought, except 10 people, then you would be wrong. Oh brother!

    And your statement, "MY theory is that everybody makes a prejudgement based on race hence RACISM" is crap.

    Everybody does NOT make prejudgment's based on race. They make prejudgment's on social class, appearance (regardless of race), intelligence, power, influence...things like that.

    But to prejudge based on those facts is not the same thing as being "racist!"

    Do you not understand what that word means yet?! Geeeesh! And I love the way you snuck in that word "everybody prejudges," rather than "everybody is a racist..." Changing you tune?

    And before you say it, race is not the same thing as social class...people confuse it to be, just as you are.

    And prejudging is not hatred toward another race!

    Now you are getting prejudging and racist confused with each other.
     
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    Anytime you use the word "everbody is like this..." or "everybody is like that..." concerning a theory, you tread on dangerous territory due to the nature of theories.

    It's also very narrow-minded to think that everyone thinks as you do.

    I have a feeling that you hate or hated certain groups in your life and you are trying to justify it by saying that everyone is like you.
     
  5. Lil Pun

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    Theories are based on abstract reasoning not fact and some you can prove others you cannot. Example: The Big Bang Theory.

    I did not say that everybody makes their prejudgments based on race but everybody does make some prejudgments based on race, or that's what I think, I didn't say I was correct it's just what I think.


    I understand what the word means fine.

    Changing nothing, it's what I have said all along.

    I'll concede and say that that was a bad example but I stand by everything else I have said.
     
  6. Lil Pun

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    So I guess when they say now two people sound alike, have the same fingerprints, etc. then that is narrow-minded since they cannot go and record 6,000,000,000 voices and fingerprints and compare each and everyone?
     
  7. StupidMoniker

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    I wouldn't say income level is a component of race. There isn't the rich caucasian race, or the poor asian race. I believe that there are biologically three pure races, mongoloid, caucasoid, and negroid. You can be any of these or any proportion of all of them, but regions and money don't enter into it. Those are seperate components that make up who we are.
     
  8. Lil Pun

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    Listen, I'm tired of arguing. I said what I THOUGHT. I didn't say you have to agree with me or disagree and in saying that I am sorry to have started this argument in the first place. You may think I am wrong and vice versa but to each his own. Thanks for the fight anyway though. ;)
     
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    I'm gong by the definition when I say region but I did admit that I was wrong on the income level thing.
     

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