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Originally Posted by JackIsLost
I was once walking with a co-worker of mine and we were trading jokes about each other back and forth, being asian it resorted to names such as gook, "luv u long time" and so on. i didn't care but as soon as i said "i'm tired, can i just call you a n****r" he tries to punch me in the stomach. he missed because i am a highly trained ninja.
there's years of background on any racial slur, sure it's offensive, but it seems like the n word is taken to heart a whole lot quicker. (i know it depends on the individual)
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That could have to do with the history of the USA.
The Japanese most certainly have not had their fair treatment in the USA. Neither have the Chinese. I can't say much for the other Asian backgrounds, but I know for sure that the Japanese and Chinese didn't have such a great life here in the USA.
People of African descent, however...
We've essentially been destroyed. I'm not trying to play the "who was more of a victim?" game. It's just a fact. From Africa, across the Middle Passage, into slavery, and for decades of torture, destruction of culture, and being "coloreds", "negros", and "niggers"... "Nigger" just tends to heave up a hell of a lot more painful history that other ethnic slurs, simply because black people have had more of a painful history than other races.
Besides the Native Americans. They've been screwed, and still are being screwed today.
I think that the Black Power Movement may have made that clear, and so that's usually why - for people who find the word offensive, anyway - people tend to have such a violent reaction.
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Originally Posted by bELyVIS
There will always be racial slurs. If it is directed at you, you have the right to speak up for yourself. If it is just thrown out there, I just ignore it because you can't teach ignorant people anything because they think they know everything any way. It's just wasting time.
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I disagree. If people always thought that it was "just wasting time," then we would've had absolutely no progress in race relations.