My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.

I wonder what the person who absolutely insisted to me yesterday that this wasn’t about black people in general would have to say about this…

  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Important caveat. It’s become a common word in some varieties of black-american english and black people aren’t racist for using it.

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      3 months ago

      There’s a reason a distinction is made between how black people use it and when the “hard r” is in the pronunciation

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      Not really, because he wasn’t a Black guy talking to Black people. He knew what he did.

      It’s a racial slur. That’s it. Don’t use it, don’t think it, don’t think you can say it with your Black friends.