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0 pointsironjunkie8y ago0 comments

Thanks for your assumption that I didn't learn it. I did.

I probably don't have all the emotional background on this subject as you have, growing up in America, but that doesn't change my observation.

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sumedh8y ago· 2 in thread

Thanks for your assumption that I am an American, I am not.

Since you read about it, just imagine all those atrocities if it happened to you, your family, your community for hundreds of years maybe that might help you make that connection emotionally.

ironjunkieOP8y ago

Do I understand that all those atrocities happened? For sure. It is an horrible thing and it should be recognized as such.

What I don't get is the way this is dealt with. Forbidding a set of words don't really makes sense to me. Don't get me wrong, I still think it would be extremmely insensitive to use those words as it would be to use any other insult.

What I really don't get is the crazy different treatment those words get. It seems that even if you would be the least racist person in the world, if you mistakenly used one of those words (for example you tried to do a failed joke as Bill Maher did [1]), you will immediately be fired//terminated etc etc, even though everyone knows you are not racist at all. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. One can recognize that the treatment of Black people in this country (in the past and today) is definitely horrible, and also think that this whole forbidden word touchiness doesn't make sense.

[1] https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/6/3/15734024/bill-maher-...

sumedh8y ago

Maybe this will change your mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO15S3WC9pg

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