That it*lian: "That's a racist policy. Italians were slurred with the same word. Nobody's using it on you. It's a quote from an article. Quit being a shitlib."
You can quote it and still censor it. Frankly, the only time I don't censor it is if I'm quoting it in a much more official capacity than a fucking tweet. If I'm writing an essay condemning historical racism, I'm not going to censor what I quote, but I'm also never going to read it the hell outloud.
All that aside: They called my ancestors "Red N*rs" but I'm not gonna put all the fucking letters there on an internet board. The people who know the word and the meaning will be able to fill in the blanks. My personal connection to racism, or historical racism perpetrated upon my family members, doesn't excuse my use of a slur deemed offensive by black people just because white people modified it with the word "sand" or "red" or whatever bullshit they came up with.
Also while we're on the subject of slurs, one of the classic examples to remember is "G**k" which was a slur for Korean people invented by American soldiers based on the sounds they thought they heard commonly among the Korean people they could not understand. John McCain later on defended his use of that slur because he said he was only using it to refer to the Vietnamese people that tortured them. The gulf between the way Korean sounds and Vietnamese sounds to a dumbshit American GI is fucking vast. Turns out the slur morphed into a catch-all hateword for Asians. So yeah despite his half-assed late-in-life effort at not being a racist piece of shit, John McCain was still an absolute racist piece of shit. That's just the way the cookie crumbles.
"White people should never say the n word"
That it*lian: "That's a racist policy. Italians were slurred with the same word. Nobody's using it on you. It's a quote from an article. Quit being a shitlib."
You can quote it and still censor it. Frankly, the only time I don't censor it is if I'm quoting it in a much more official capacity than a fucking tweet. If I'm writing an essay condemning historical racism, I'm not going to censor what I quote, but I'm also never going to read it the hell outloud.
All that aside: They called my ancestors "Red N*rs" but I'm not gonna put all the fucking letters there on an internet board. The people who know the word and the meaning will be able to fill in the blanks. My personal connection to racism, or historical racism perpetrated upon my family members, doesn't excuse my use of a slur deemed offensive by black people just because white people modified it with the word "sand" or "red" or whatever bullshit they came up with.
Also while we're on the subject of slurs, one of the classic examples to remember is "G**k" which was a slur for Korean people invented by American soldiers based on the sounds they thought they heard commonly among the Korean people they could not understand. John McCain later on defended his use of that slur because he said he was only using it to refer to the Vietnamese people that tortured them. The gulf between the way Korean sounds and Vietnamese sounds to a dumbshit American GI is fucking vast. Turns out the slur morphed into a catch-all hateword for Asians. So yeah despite his half-assed late-in-life effort at not being a racist piece of shit, John McCain was still an absolute racist piece of shit. That's just the way the cookie crumbles.