The "N" word, is it really necessary?

[Lron]

I feel as though this word is the same thing as nuking a village of small children. Both have the same intentions and the N word might even turn out to be more deadly as more information is gathered on the power of derogatory, racist language. Lets try to keep this in mind before we use this word so carelessly. After all, wasn't it just a decade ago when blacks had separate drinking fountains and rosa parks would not sit in the front, without a seat belt? I think you get my point....

[Estrang]

excuse me sir your vagina seems to be bleeding

[Truth]

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[Aprio]

Shut up Knukkle, he's right. It's partly why I don't play here as much as I used to.

[Smyd]

Lol...
Knuckle is right, this guy needs any extra absorbent rag; one that is capable of consuming blood and sand. Omg, this guy is like the first season of Spartacus, maybe he isn't so bad after all?

Hah, nah he is. Bitch

[Dreads]

After all, wasn't it just a decade ago when blacks had separate drinking fountains and rosa parks would not sit in the front, without a seat belt? I think you get my point....

A decade ago? What the hell have you been smoking.
I'm pretty sure in 2002 we didnt have sperate drinking fountains and rosa parks was definitely done riding her bus.

Try more like 60 years ago.

[Barkingturtle]

I'm pretty sure 60 years ago blacks were still enslaved by dinosaurs.

[Flowz]

Lol i love how black people think this word just appliys to them and shouldn't be used, Im sorry people called u guys in 100 years ago but guess what shit changes and the word can be used to describe other races as well. Not to hard to google.



Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive . a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.




not everyone uses it to describe a black person, u guys are just to narrow minded to expanded your definitions

[Daldolma]

Some people are astoundingly easy to troll.

[Diggles]

Diggles >.>

-Amelinda

[Autotune]

N*gger?


-Amelinda here - yes Stealin.

[Amelinda]

Estrang isn't knuckle - he's just knuckle's stalker.

But i agree with OP and aprio - there is no need for that word and expect me to react pretty badly when you use it publically and i catch you :)

[Diggles]

oh i thought the word was nagafen my bad

[Diggles]

yall need to stop nagalippin

[Autotune]

I'd say the word is necessary.

The only people who think the word only applies to blacks in terms of a racial slur, are the people who the word describes perfectly.


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[Barkingturtle]

But i agree with OP and aprio - there is no need for that word and expect me to react pretty badly when you use it publically and i catch you :)

"React pretty badly" means what, exactly?

Because from what I've seen time and time again nothing will happen to the offender. It is the number one reason I won't touch the red server; the inmates running the asylum. There are screenshots all over this board of players bragging about their gratuitous use of racial epithets, and they're still here. Make this server a place where adults feel comfortable spending their hobby time instead of pandering to the juvenile mob which as of now appears to operate with total impunity and maybe you guys will see a server pop over 150 again.

[Diggles]

Translation: couple bros on red said nagafen and barking got his panties in a knot

[Autotune]

I see no reason to dance around the word, or any word for that matter.

If we aren't using it in any racial slang/slur, why not allow people to discuss it in RnF? Talking about the word and using it in a derogatory way are 2 different things.

However, I've noticed the only people to get warnings or forum suspensions from using the word, were people that used it correctly and not people that were using it as a racial slur.

[Tiggles]

To answer your question.

Yes, yes it is...

[Flowz]

still dont see how this word gets censored when there is a player running around with the name "Nips" if were gonna stop 1 racial slur why let another slide, have petitioned this name, im not chinese but if i was i could be slightly offended. its no different then calling someone a Jew, a whop, a nip, a chinq, i've seen all these words used but seems like the only one that gets censored is the big bad N word lol. some poeple.

[Flowz]

hell even nips himself petitioned for a name change, im sure he didnt know ti wsa a racial slur as some poeple dont, but i guess thats beside the point.

[stonez138]

Lol i love how black people think this word just appliys to them

Let me paint you a scenario. A black guy, a white guy, and an asian guy are all standing together outside of a crime scene. A cop yells, "Get on the ground ******!"

Who would YOU think he is talking to?

[Diggles]

the black cop that was just fired upon

[Autotune]

Let me paint you a scenario. A black guy, a white guy, and an asian guy are all standing together outside of a crime scene. A cop yells, "Get on the ground ******!"

Who would YOU think he is talking to?

If I was the white guy, i'd get on the fucking ground.

[Diggles]

what race is the cop? if he was black it'd be like "bro get on the ground"

[Autotune]

what race is the cop? if he was black it'd be like "bro get on the ground"

the Cop is obviously white, as in this scenario he is using the word ******. Only racist white cops use the word ******.

[Diggles]

cops are gay can we have another word problem?

[Autotune]

cops are gay can we have another word problem?

If a group of mexicans are standing around and one of them calls another a ******, do they all get confused and look for the black guy not in attendance? or do they immediately know what was intended?

[Flowz]

If a group of mexicans are standing around and one of them calls another a ******, do they all get confused and look for the black guy not in attendance? or do they immediately know what was intended?

The black guy around the corner comes around with his gun drawn because everytime that word is used they relapse back to the 1900's

[Diggles]

Que?

[Diggles]

So a Jeri, a Chose and a Twi'lek walk into a bar and the bartender says "Hey, bigger, long time no see."

Mace Windu walks out

[Diggles]

Aaaand fuckin auto correct destroys my already bad joke

[Silentone]

this thread has potential.

[stonez138]

The use of the term "******" is the only way I can convey the level of hatred I have for certain people.

Not calling them black though. Just calling them a ******. Two separate things.

If that is the case then you seriously need to work on your vocabulary.

[Autotune]

If that is the case then you seriously need to work on your vocabulary.

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[Szeth]

I don't use that word with connotations of hatred towards black people. I use that word as an exclamation of frustration.

Like, you stub your toe and scream, "N*gger" instead of something more profane.

[Terrok]

I thought jew was only a racist slur when then person you are calling a jew is not jewish? and as far as the n word being used, black people use it way more than anyone else, if they dont like it, they should stop using it, and no one hates N's more than black people because they give black people a bad name... and i think calling someone a nerco is way worse than naggy!

2002 front of the bus, priceless

[Diggles]

almost as bad as gays taking the word "faggot" as their own word.

[Diggles]

I think straight white men need their own derogatory term.

maybe "successful"

[Szeth]

So are you gay or black Diggles?

[Diggles]

why not both?

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[Truth]

http://gnaa.eu

[Diggles]

10:35 iTiggles I wanna play p99 again
10:35 Diggles ^ gay
10:36 *** Diggles was kicked by nilbog (nilbog)
10:36 !!! You have been kicked from #project1999

[Szeth]

Nilbog wins again.

[Diggles]

ofc he does

[Knuckle]

Estrang isn't knuckle - he's just knuckle's stalker.

But i agree with OP and aprio - there is no need for that word and expect me to react pretty badly when you use it publically and i catch you :)

queen defending my honor :o

[tshakur]

diggles sigs literally make me too embarrassed to lurk p99 forum on public computer

[Szeth]

Diggles how you like yo eggs? Fried or Fertilized?

[Diggles]

Is scrambled an option

[bakkily]

I don't use that word with connotations of hatred towards black people. I use that word as an exclamation of frustration.

Like, you stub your toe and scream, "N*gger" instead of something more profane.


out here in az, theres plenty of white trash that use the world regularly, if i do, i wont ever say it in front of black folk, but other racist words ect if i say it, is out of frustration as well, hell, out here they love to call any white person in AJ a cracker, ive been called it several times, but it doesnt bother me, my family comes from the south, but i know we never owned any land in missouri/ texas, but i believe in the words of "to each their own"

[Terrok]

but the funny part is they are out f'ing all the snow ho's while ya'll are reading this....

[Shannacore]

out here in az, theres plenty of white trash that use the world regularly, if i do, i wont ever say it in front of black folk, but other racist words ect if i say it, is out of frustration as well, hell, out here they love to call any white person in AJ a cracker, ive been called it several times, but it doesnt bother me, my family comes from the south, but i know we never owned any land in missouri/ texas, but i believe in the words of "to each their own"

Less commas more periods, please.

[stonez138]

I use the word ****** frequently because racism in this country is stupid.

Then a racist fuck like you must be plain retarded.

[Kingofqueens123]

N word Jim.

[Denzal]

As long as they refer to themselves as the n word than people will continue to use it

[Phallax]

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[Rikimeru]

so your saying only black people are allowed to call people ******s? does that mean only white people are allowed to call others crackers and honkys etc?

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[Flunklesnarkin]

People get too caught up on being politically correct sometimes


i dont think saying ****** is the worst thing in the world like OP was describing... sure raving lunatic racist people are retarded...


but there are certainly things much worse in the world than a single word... if only they would put their anger toward something meaningful instead of going on about it heh... they got therapists for that kinda thing ;p


anyways back to doing something meaningful with my time... must play eq

[Lron]

Most black people you know were probably slaves at one point and time so they have the right to use that word. We do not understand suffering until we have walked a mile in their shoes.

When you use that word conceptualize what it does to people who used to be slaves. It is the EXACT same thing as beating a child to keep it scared. The N word is like a chain around the neck of the black man and until it is ERASED from our vocabulary, only then can we get to the place Marty Lutheran King saw for us.

[Bkab]

trolololol

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[Flunklesnarkin]

Most black people you know were probably slaves at one point and time so they have the right to use that word. We do not understand suffering until we have walked a mile in their shoes.

When you use that word conceptualize what it does to people who used to be slaves. It is the EXACT same thing as beating a child to keep it scared. The N word is like a chain around the neck of the black man and until it is ERASED from our vocabulary, only then can we get to the place Marty Lutheran King saw for us.


yep like black folks are the only people ever to be slaves


you do know that slavery currently exists today



maybe if you feel so strongly over a word that "reminds" you of a time decades ago that black people weren't treated so nice (not even slaves then) you might try to help out the current slaves of today.

[Terrok]

beating a kid and using the N word, so you are saying its ok for some people to beat kids and not others like it is ok for some people to use the N word and not others... I can't wait til the day hearing the N word is my biggest problem...

[Tiggles]

I wish I could own a slave today. Tired of cleaning my house. I need a house ***** and a field ****** for all my chores.

I would go back in time to STOP slavery from ever happening if it meant their slave ancestors never got to our shores.

[Aprio]

I can't till R99 finally shuts down and you rejects piss off to plague something else.

[Aprio]

Like blue99.

Your choice, I'm starting to come here less and less these days because of wankers like you. There are other games to play, like you keep saying in irc, mass effect 3 soon bros.

[Hitchens]

Joining the IRC channel felt like wandering into a Klan rally, but then I realized that the most obnoxious people there don't even really play. After that they seemed more pathetic than irritating.

[Diggles]

No dmf for hitchens

[stonez138]

yep like black folks are the only people ever to be slaves

Actually a lot of people today don't realise that many poor whites that came to this country were little more then slaves themselves. They were indentured servants. Even then poor whites had more in common with poor people of color then with wealthy land owning whites. Racism serves but one purpose, it keeps poor people fighting each other instead of actually uniting and taking down the status quo.