Um...if one is not offended, then it's not offensive. Pretty simple.
mike - 11 years ago
Make this a Yes or NO question without ,"it's OK between friends" or "it's offensive" and you will get different results...
rob - 11 years ago
I had the biggest cock in my platoon in the Marine Corps...it drove the niggaz crazy
awesomeness - 11 years ago
I have had all kinds of fruends of different races and guess what we have always made jokes about race. Its stupid to get all bent outta shape about it. Ive been called cracker, whitey, gotten told I have a small member cause im white...but then you razz back with slanty eye comments or bad driving or how someone isnt paying child support. Between friends its all in good fun and goes all ways. Nobody gets butthurt...but that being said I may throw a punch if someone called my black friend a nigger disparagingly.
scott - 11 years ago
It's ALWAYS ok. We have a First Amendment right to say what the heck we want to. Stop allowing the PC police to infringe on your First Amendment right of free speech and attempt to control what you say. That includes using the word Nigger. Silly isn't it? They don't have any problem using the "disparaging" word Cracker but they use asterisks when the "N" word is printed.... I will say whatever word I like and if you don't like it or are offended then don't listen. What a bunch of hypocrites....
I know many will disagree with me, but it's all about context. Men, particularly those who engage in rough labor or sports, refer to their friends using all sorts of nasty nicknames. F***er, c***s***er, c****er, n***er, d***slap, and a host of other derogatory familiarities are just what happens. The argument can (and is) made that these non-racial and non-homophobic people using such words without the intent or actual fact of promoting ill-will harms relations because it normalizes it. That argument is bullpucky. Actual acts of discrimination and prejudice are what do that, and nothing else. If everybody could be as friendly toward one another as teammates are in the locker room (where antics and pranks such as Ben Gay in jockey straps and snaps to the bare ass with rolled up towels take place, again with no malice beyond a brief laugh at someone's expense, and the knowledge that like revenge will be served upon one's self), the entire world would be a far better place.
Live in the moment, instead of worrying beforehand that someone is setting out to belittle you with mere words. Ignore strangers who DO try to put you down while not in a professional environment. It can be done.
Pot meet kettle - 11 years ago
And there lies the paradox. Sure your friend doesn't care, but Al Sharpton walking by overhears it and tries to start a race riot. Maybe Dr. Seuss could have cleared this up.
If the words are not ok, they are not ok. You can not say them in the room, you can not say them to your groom. You can not say them on the air, you must not say them anywhere.
The PC police say if you said them in the past, I am sorry you have cooked your last. Don't matter if your staff uses them every day, you cannot have used them in any way. Film makers have artistic right of usage but don't think that applies to yousage. (sorry it had to rhyme).
JBar595 - 11 years ago
·A black kid asks his mother, "What's a democracy?"
"Well, son, that's when white folks work every day so we can gets all our benefits,
you knows like free cell phones for each family member, rent subsidy, food stamps,
WIC, free healthcare, utility subsidy, & the list goes on & on, you knows".
"But mama, don't the white people get mad about that?
"Sure they do, that's called racism!"
This is for you CBS since you are a Obama water carrier.
Jeff - 11 years ago
People they are just words, they may not be nice words but they are words. We have so many more problems that we need to worry about. People use the lords name in vain all the time and I do not hear a peep about this.
Terry Pollock - 11 years ago
All this attempt to demonize language is crumbling on itself. What possible difference exists between the word "nigger" ad the politically correct, and OH so cute "N-word"? They mean the same.
Jeuntel, Jabba the Hut at the Zimmerman trial, then re-bushed and much more appealing in subsequent TV interviews, helpfully explained the Ebonics language.
According to her, Nigga refers to any man and is not racist, where Nigger is a racist term applied to Blacks. A breathtaking hair split usually only encountered in Christian Religion and Bill Clinton.
I don't care if a nigger refer to me as cracker, they should not care if I refer to them as nigger (though I rarely do, it does have a discriminatory stench to it).
TBPollock
farm kid - 11 years ago
the 15% that voted offensive have never been in a locker room. the media is called jock sniffers.
Matt - 11 years ago
Not everybody is a freaking racist and full of hate like the media an other would like us to believe.
In order to stop the hate you have to stop the practice of hate.
Um...if one is not offended, then it's not offensive. Pretty simple.
Make this a Yes or NO question without ,"it's OK between friends" or "it's offensive" and you will get different results...
I had the biggest cock in my platoon in the Marine Corps...it drove the niggaz crazy
I have had all kinds of fruends of different races and guess what we have always made jokes about race. Its stupid to get all bent outta shape about it. Ive been called cracker, whitey, gotten told I have a small member cause im white...but then you razz back with slanty eye comments or bad driving or how someone isnt paying child support. Between friends its all in good fun and goes all ways. Nobody gets butthurt...but that being said I may throw a punch if someone called my black friend a nigger disparagingly.
It's ALWAYS ok. We have a First Amendment right to say what the heck we want to. Stop allowing the PC police to infringe on your First Amendment right of free speech and attempt to control what you say. That includes using the word Nigger. Silly isn't it? They don't have any problem using the "disparaging" word Cracker but they use asterisks when the "N" word is printed.... I will say whatever word I like and if you don't like it or are offended then don't listen. What a bunch of hypocrites....
I know many will disagree with me, but it's all about context. Men, particularly those who engage in rough labor or sports, refer to their friends using all sorts of nasty nicknames. F***er, c***s***er, c****er, n***er, d***slap, and a host of other derogatory familiarities are just what happens. The argument can (and is) made that these non-racial and non-homophobic people using such words without the intent or actual fact of promoting ill-will harms relations because it normalizes it. That argument is bullpucky. Actual acts of discrimination and prejudice are what do that, and nothing else. If everybody could be as friendly toward one another as teammates are in the locker room (where antics and pranks such as Ben Gay in jockey straps and snaps to the bare ass with rolled up towels take place, again with no malice beyond a brief laugh at someone's expense, and the knowledge that like revenge will be served upon one's self), the entire world would be a far better place.
Live in the moment, instead of worrying beforehand that someone is setting out to belittle you with mere words. Ignore strangers who DO try to put you down while not in a professional environment. It can be done.
And there lies the paradox. Sure your friend doesn't care, but Al Sharpton walking by overhears it and tries to start a race riot. Maybe Dr. Seuss could have cleared this up.
If the words are not ok, they are not ok. You can not say them in the room, you can not say them to your groom. You can not say them on the air, you must not say them anywhere.
The PC police say if you said them in the past, I am sorry you have cooked your last. Don't matter if your staff uses them every day, you cannot have used them in any way. Film makers have artistic right of usage but don't think that applies to yousage. (sorry it had to rhyme).
·A black kid asks his mother, "What's a democracy?"
"Well, son, that's when white folks work every day so we can gets all our benefits,
you knows like free cell phones for each family member, rent subsidy, food stamps,
WIC, free healthcare, utility subsidy, & the list goes on & on, you knows".
"But mama, don't the white people get mad about that?
"Sure they do, that's called racism!"
This is for you CBS since you are a Obama water carrier.
People they are just words, they may not be nice words but they are words. We have so many more problems that we need to worry about. People use the lords name in vain all the time and I do not hear a peep about this.
All this attempt to demonize language is crumbling on itself. What possible difference exists between the word "nigger" ad the politically correct, and OH so cute "N-word"? They mean the same.
Jeuntel, Jabba the Hut at the Zimmerman trial, then re-bushed and much more appealing in subsequent TV interviews, helpfully explained the Ebonics language.
According to her, Nigga refers to any man and is not racist, where Nigger is a racist term applied to Blacks. A breathtaking hair split usually only encountered in Christian Religion and Bill Clinton.
I don't care if a nigger refer to me as cracker, they should not care if I refer to them as nigger (though I rarely do, it does have a discriminatory stench to it).
TBPollock
the 15% that voted offensive have never been in a locker room. the media is called jock sniffers.
Not everybody is a freaking racist and full of hate like the media an other would like us to believe.
In order to stop the hate you have to stop the practice of hate.
Where does the Past belong ?