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[WARNING: white person whitesplaining about the n-word]

cruelestyouth:

igethighwithkendall:

My Lesbian Senses Are Tingling: How in the world is it okay for a black person to use the N-word but not a white person??

cruelestyouth:

bookishboi:

stfuconfederates:

igethighwithkendall:

This is the last paragraph in an article on Gwyneth Paltrow’s use of the N-word.

“But Paltrow isn’t the only person confused about the etiquette for using the N-word. There’s one simple rule. If you are not African American there is no instance for using the word that is not going to be taken offensively. If doesn’t matter if you’re friends with the most prominent African Africans on the planet, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Oprah or President Obama. Don’t. Use. The. Word.”

So, basically, this is saying that if you’re black it’s okay to say it but if you’re white it isn’t. Last time I checked, limiting the freedom of someone based on the color of their skin was called racism, and it was pretty frowned upon.

loooooool did you just fucking type ‘limiting the freedom of someone’ while referring to white people being asked not to use a word that was used in a dehumanizing way to justify the enslavement of Black people and is used today to justify all manner of mistreatment of them still?

No, nobody’s making a fucking law saying that white people can’t say it. Our freedom isn’t being limited. It’s just that if you’re white and you say it, you might be made to feel guilty for it. That’s not somebody limiting your freedom. That’s somebody asking you not to oppress them.

So you’re concerned about being made to feel guilty about using a word that actually did and does limit the freedom of Black folks, who have every right to reclaim a slur against them in any fucking way they feel like it, and you want to say that it’s the same thing?

Noooooooooooo. Get all the way the fuck out.

What kind of fuckery is this.

“You’re limiting my freedom!”

Why do white people act like teenagers whining about having a curfew when it comes to using the n-word?

You know what, white people? In the end, no one can stop you from saying it. But in turn, you can’t stop others from:

- calling you the racist that you are
- thinking lowly of you as a person
- questioning your intelligence
- mocking you
- telling you to go the fuck away and drink bleach
- cussing you the fuck out
- wishing bad things will happen to you and hoping they will
- to never, ever want to associate with you EVER
- never respecting you because you’re such a fucking embarrassment to society

You can’t limit our freedom, either.

If you just really HAVE to use a word that was made to dehumanize us, at least be a grown up who can face the consequences and doesn’t whine about it.

I’m sorry, but did you even read what I wrote? Where did I say “I am angry because I want to say the N-word because I’m a racist.”

I don’t use that word because of the offense it holds with it. But why would anyone want to use it, especially blacks, when it is such a derogatory term? My point was, the writer of the article made it clear that there is a double standard with this word, and to me, that’s not okay. No one should say it.

You didn’t read what I wrote either.

That word was made BY WHITE PEOPLE to dehumanize black people, and it’s been used that way for centuries.

It helps uphold the status quo that is white supremacy.  That status quo was made BY WHITE PEOPLE and is still upheld BY WHITE PEOPLE today.

That’s right, by YOU.  Personally.

Black people use it to reclaim it — to take it’s power away when it’s used against us to dehumanize us.  But black people using the word isn’t a debate that should concern you.  You should be held responsible for what YOU say, as A WHITE PERSON.

When you use that word, white person, you are enforcing white supremacy by being a white person and saying it.  Therefore, you would be a racist, and you shouldn’t be surprised to be called such.

And you’re very right — it is a double standard.

But history and society is a double standard, so get the fuck over it.

holy shit, OP, shut up.

and your “did you read what i wrote?” bullshit is typical deflection — because it’s easier for you to assume you [fellow whitey who gets the full benefits of racism and is NEVER oppressed by it] understand this shit better than cruelestyouth, and that she ~just didn’t get what you meant~, than it is for you to acknowledge that she obviously knows better than you, understands what you meant and knows you are full of shit.

also it’s impossible to be “racist against whites” under a white supremacist system, asshat.

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  5. jcoleknowsbest reblogged this from stfuyoustupidcunt and added:
    Sounds like a white troll who created a page just to reply to this message…..
  6. stfuyoustupidcunt reblogged this from mimicryisnotmastery and added:
    My fellow blacks, yes you are black so i will refer to you as that not african american because we are not from africa....
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    this is some white nonsense.gif
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  11. sugahwaatah reblogged this from jcoleknowsbest and added:
    Its a double standard that crackers can’t use a word that they made up to murder, rape and abuse us. Crackers made this...
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  15. birchsoda reblogged this from igethighwithkendall and added:
    OH HELL NO. I read what you said. You were whining about not being able to use the slur because you are white! In so...
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  18. tariqk reblogged this from searchingforknowledge and added:
    Here’s the lesson: You can say what you want. We get to say what you want about you.
  19. poetic-ness reblogged this from bookishboi and added:
    i’ll never understand whyyyy the need to say it is that great, like just don’t fucking say it period. like why would...
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