Detroit buries the n-word.

[LiveSquid]

And I still think thats stereotypical and racially profiling.

 

[pinkflutterbys]

If you've been called names, wouldn't you rather society as a whole begin to view that as unacceptable? Faggot is another word that should be buried. I don't let let kids in my class use that word. I send them to the hall if I hear it.

 

[pinkflutterbys]

And I still think thats stereotypical and racially profiling.

Well somewhere along the line of this thread, somebody asked why there are special groups and special scholarships or special whatevers for blacks, and I was trying to answer that question. I'm a teacher. I compulsively answer questions, apparently even rhetorical ones.

 

[LiveSquid]

If you've been called names, wouldn't you rather society as a whole begin to view that as unacceptable? Faggot is another word that should be buried. I don't let let kids in my class use that word. I send them to the hall if I hear it.

No. Because its everyone's right to have, and be allowed to voice an opinion. Even if that opinion is that I am (or someone else is) a faggot. I dont appreciate it, but I certainly respect their right, and will fight to defend the right, to use any word. Even if that word is one that was used 'against me' in the past.

No word should be buried. If you and a hundred million people decide not to use a word, good for you, more power to you. But 'burying' it doesnt make it go away, it doesnt take away its power, it doesnt make it less offensive, it doesnt remove it from history, it doesnt heal any hurt that improper usage of a word caused, it does nothing.

If you send your students to the hall when they say it, theyll still say it. Theyll just try to remember not to say it in your class. No one has the right (aside from in a guardianship type capacity) to tell anyone how to talk or what they can and cant say.

 

[callmeCrazyButt]

I guess I thought in this day and age everyone would be sensible enough to realize the n-word is no longer necessary. My mistake.

Sad to say , but you can't clump everyone together and assume that we are all going to be sensible and think the same thoughts. Not everyone is going to agree that the n-word is not neccesary.

 

[gr8nrg]

I believe that since blacks have historically been denied the same rights as whites, our society has had to make a special effort to ensure everyone is treated equally, and had no one made such an effort, there would probably still be a more serious problem with inequality.

Now, that's exactly what I call reversed discrimination!!!

We DO NOT need to make any special efforts. What happened in the past stays in the past. To ensure so-called equality, we should treat people equally. That's the bottom line. It breaks my heart and makes me angry when whites or asians denied admissions or job promotions that blacks get with ease to "fill the quotas" yet with a fraction of needed qualifications, just to "give them a chance" becuase "historically they have been oppressed" and come from a "troubled background" and had "obstacles to deal with" and so on and so forth and more BS like that.

Now, how is it "equal opportunity"? Anyone who considers it that is a liberaly-poisoned blind fool.

 

[LiveSquid]

Now, that's exactly what I call reversed discrimination!!!

There is no such thing as reverse racism or reverse discrimination. Racism is racism, and discrimination is discrimination. It makes no difference who is discriminating against whom. Its all the same.