....both are fully OK if used between white mens only...
First, let me say that I don't give a $hit what anyone says. Nothing about free speech offends me, per se. The right to free speech, including so-called "offensive" or "hate-speech" is fully protected under the First Amendment. The obvious exception is yelling "fire" in a dark, crowded theater when there is no fire, or something along those lines.
Now, back to your question, which is an interesting one. Blacks habitually use the so-called "horribly offensive" "n-word", in all its glory, all the time. If it's so offensive that the mere utterance or print of the word is deemed so distasteful, insulting, and, hurtful, why would they use it?
With that said, I have never heard two White men calling each "honky" or "cracker" or any other race-related terms. I'm sure that someone from the left will be along soon to educate the forum about how younger Whites use the term "all the time" these days. Nevertheless, I've never heard it or read about it being used among Whites in the way that Blacks use the so-called "n-word" to refer to each other night and day, in all social settings. Even the so-called Black leaders and Black religious figures routinely say n***** or some Ebonics variant of the word, which is supposedly so offensive, insulting, and hurtful, although they say it all the time. |
