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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Paul Smith who wrote (142178)8/8/2010 10:06:36 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 540880
 
I do not see it the way you see it. Whether it was a democrat or a republican I would find that unacceptable. Your excuses don't work for me. A white person referring to a select black man as an "N" because they hate him is NOT the same thing as black people using it with each other. The first is a racial slur, the other usage is black people co-opting the racist terminology and using it in a way to promote solidarity with each other. I happen to think using the "N" word is problematic for blacks because it obviously confuses some white people- like yourself- in to thinking it is somehow being used like an epithet, or in come selective way- but it's really about defense, and imo it's a generic defensive reaction.

If a black man calls you "whitey", or whatever you are, because he hates you, you think his "selectivity" in hating just you, and calling just you whitey, makes it not racist? I can't imagine how you parse that. Racial epithets are solid evidence of a racial way of thinking- and are the bedrock of racism.
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