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I think the caller was racist. Dr. Laura was wrong to say the N word because she was white. That is racist – making a decision based on race.
That word should be stricken from our language completely. I never use it and find it so offensive, even coming from a black person’s mouth.
I don’t know why people of any race continue to argue that it’s not offensive to use the N word and argue that if black people think it’s ok, they should be able to say it too. It is NOT ok for people who aren’t black to say it (I am not black, FYI) because black people are using it to one another. They understand that they are family and understand the context in which it is being said. It’s the same thing as having a man tell a sexist joke and how it comes across differently if the joke is told by a woman to another woman vs. the same joke being told by a man to a woman. Because a man isn’t a woman and vice versa, a person doesn’t understand the context in which it came from. It’s minority/group privilege to use a word within the confines of that group precisely because the intended meaning is already understood. If you change the speaker and the audience, the rules are switched because of context. This really isn’t that hard to understand, people. Personally, I don’t like the word, but I know that if a black person says it to another black person, it’s completely different story than if the word is said by another social group. From my understanding, the word also refers to a very specific segment of the black population which doesn’t apply to the whole, and this can also affect the context and meaning a speaker may be attaching to it who is a stranger or not part of the black community. Even if it was ok to say it (which I again don’t agree with), why would you want to? I think it’s so tasteless and classless for someone like Dr. Laura to just throw derogatory terms around and then act like it isn’t offensive. This lady is clearly in NO position whatsoever to be dishing out advice. I am shocked she can get away with it and Don Imus got canned for his comments. Speaking of double-standards…
Spicy, you’re dead-on. I wish she hadn’t pelted the lady with the N-word over and over, but her basic point was sound. And the N-word is just like the C-word in my book. Vile, gross, unnecessary and unacceptable!
I m soooo sic n tired of ‘white folk’ called racist when they DARE 2 utter that wrd. If N is sooooo offensive to you ‘blacks, negroes, african americans’ (wat ever the current acceptable title this year is), then “How can you even think of calling each other ‘N—–’, that would allow all women to call each other ‘C–t’ , and all men call each other ‘D–k’. And then laugh & slap 5 and not get offended or angry, RIGHT????? Sounds 2 me like a convenient ‘double standard’. Dr. Laura was “quoting” spoken words sooo often (daily) heard any where in the world, she DID NOT call ANYONE a N, she “quoted a blk person saying N. Explain the reasonable difference, then why don’t we call ourselves “C–t & “D–k” if that is the reasonable explaination…… ?