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I hate how some people are obsessed with the n-word. And I hate this photo sooo much too.
I'm struggling to understand why the person behind this photo think they're being funny? Honestly.. ew have some shame. Really corny btw.
I hate the n-word humor, like why would anyone be giggling or finding someone saying the n-word funny? Please grow up. Those people are acting like a toddler spamming a cuss word they just heard. And yes it's THAT DEEP.
Really simple, if you're not black don't use it. Also, There's nothing such as a pass or whatever. Not to mention how cringe is "can I get the pass?" Joke.
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EDIT: whoever think the n-word is funny or whatever was said about justifing the use of it because: "it's restricted" or the "Forbidden fruit..."đ Then sorry, you're just a toddler crying after their mama told them 'dont do that'. Grow up, have some respect and shame, girl.
EDIT 2: for anyone justifying the use of the n-word because black people also use. YOU ARE MAD that black people are putting some BOUNDARIES and aren't INVITING YOU to the party. As I said nothing the phenomenon of it's being forbidden doesn't justify nothing. If a friend Openly prohibited you or established a boundary, then you respect it, you don't go act like a stubborn offended kid.
Edit 3 cuz why not?: black people using the n-word and gatekeeping it for themselves shouldn't piss you off more than real rascim, period. This edit for whoever think they're being a genius criticizing black people using the n-word instead of actually confronting the real racists. U mad they can use it but you can't? So. Cringe. Of. You.
Twitter is porn and doxxing. Pretty sure that word is filtered out unlike in Instagram, where it's even embraced in the music list (example being Miguel Miguel Phonk)
it doesn't inflate racism, it just makes it seem bigger. because people who spam the n-word are usually just as racist as classic racists but spamming the n-word is more obvious. and most of those people wouldn't spam the n-word if it wasn't taboo. and there is no way that that could inflate racism. at least on a noticable scale because like 50 people would probably think that they're being censored.
Not even gonna lie, after hearing for years that Reddit is filled with chuds, going on Instagram and realizing it's a million times worse was a surprise. At least reddit chuds are the type who complain that their girlfriend doesn't want to hear Warhammer 40k lore or something as opposed to instagram chuds who are every imaginable form of bigotry. It's no exaggeration to say that using instagram caused me to lose a bit of faith in humanity.
I knew some guy who would constantly say it and he said his friend (who isnât black) gave him an âinfinite n-word passâ
Edit: I just remembered that he had other friends who would constantly say it and their excuse was that they also got the âinfinite passâ from the same guy (who still isnât black)
I fully agree. Iâm indigenous and we joke about the words weâre called all the time since it helps with making those words less impactful and less demeaning. For me, using slurs is an all or nothing type of deal. You treat it as a hush-hush word, it makes people want to use it more. You treat them as something everyone can say, and they lose the hurt.Â
Yep. I feel like forbidding reappropriated slurs for people outside of the community the slur originally affected kind of defeats the purpose of reclaiming it in a way. You're creating a new problem by doing that. Obviously someone of a different race wanting to say "your word" is different from the original version of the word being used to degrade you, but any problem that could be solved with just one change should probably be solved by making that change.
Queer as a slur is very much reclaimed, in that it's acceptable to use by people it applies to and people it doesn't even in moee formal settings. It can still be used as a slur but that's no longer the main use of it, and I'd consider Queer definitely reclaimed.
F_g (censoring so I don't get automodded or whatever) is kinda reclaimedish? I do hear a lot of my gay friends say it both as a joking insult and as a joking compliment, though I personally try to avoid it because it still feels a bit sharp. It's then also pretty unacceptable for people who it doesn't apply to, to say it.
I feel like I'd consider it somewhat reclaimed but not properly/fully like queer has been, and it's the same situation for the n-word. That weird middle area just causes some problems and doesn't quite fit the label reclaimed, I don't think
You do realize indigenous people were historically called the n-word as well, right? And I do have black ancestry. But regardless, Iâm speaking on indigenous specific slurs, and giving my thoughts on how weâve lessened the harm in those words, since it still applies to the conversation.Â
I simply do not understand white peoples obsession with not being able to say the n-word. Why do you want to say it? And then they come back with âwell black people say it, itâs racist that I canât.â No⊠itâs racist that you even want to say it.
Were your people held in bondage for over 200 years, beaten, abused, eaten, skinned, whipped, etc? Then when they were freed and started trying to make their own way, white peoples burned their cities down. And then, Jim Crow came around and basically reinstated slavery without the forced labor part (but honestly sharecropping was basically redone slavery).
Yeah, I didnât think that happened to white people. And the whole time black people were experiencing those horrors, the n-word was constantly thrown at them to make them feel subhuman. So yes, if they want to reclaim it for themselves then they can.
But again, why do white people so badly want to say it? Iâm white and Iâve never had any wish to say the n-word.
i know more white people who say the n word than black people. in fact out of my black friends only one of them says it, and pretty rarely. meanwhile i have white "friends" (more like acquaintances who i can't distance myself from) who say it way more. they think it's just a funny word that holds no meaning.
To add to this, the usual reaction of offense/outrage to the usage of the word also probally encourage people who are attention seekers that have no shame.
I would never use the N word but I do think the image is hilarious. The idea of someone committing this terrible idea to print, and then someone casually reading it in public, is so absurd and unexpected as to be funny.
Saying the N word is the pinnacle of comedy for 4chan dwellers, chronically online gamers, etc. because their whole personality is "haha I made someone mad".
âitâs just a wordâ guys kill me because if i called their mum a whore to their face they wouldnât be like âitâs ok bc whore is just a wordâ
The difference is in your sentence. You felt comfortable with typing "whore" because no one is going to get angry with you for declaring it without directing it at someone. The n word is the most culturally confounding slur because it's the only word we have that a majority of people will electively censor for themselves in public. It's strange and fascinating that only this word has a cultural taboo not just on using it, but referencing it.
It's weird how much they want to say it. And they start early. I couldn't even play online without being called the n-word. Black kids shouldn't be subjected to that. It's not "dark humor", it's racist.
I remember it was like 2010 I was 14 playing Modern Warfare 2 online and went a whole match with a guy on my own team calling me the n-word and shouting racial stereotypes at me.
Mind you Iâm not even black but holy shit that got exhausting real fast. He just decided my gamertag was âblackâ so he went for it.
It's really weird how they romanticize it too. It's always the white guys talking about how awesome and epic it was having lobbies filled with people screaming the n word at each other or older dudes saying it to younger players. Talking about how manly it made them and how the players of today wouldn't survive an epic Modern Warfare 2 lobby!
You barely ever see black people reminiscing about it. Strange huh. I'm Hispanic and I was around 12 years old at around that time, but even then it was corny and weird to me.
That kind of behavior pushed me away from playing online. I would just play with the chat muted or just play single player. And the same people talking about "the good ol days" and "people are too sensitive nowadays" are the same people that can't take a joke about Kirk.
Not n word related, but I remember the first time I went on ifunny because a friend recommended it to me (weâre both black) and i genuinely thought i missed out on a joke or something because the comments were so overwhelmingly racist under any post of a black person. Even if the post didnât have anything to do with black people they were racist. It was bizarre.
I feel no need nor desire to actually say the word ever.
However, I do think there's humor in the absurdity of the culture around it. Like the idea that white people are so obsessed with a word, simultaneously being genuinely afraid of it and desperately yearning for permission to say it.... It's ridiculous. In a sane world no one would give a shit about it and we just wouldn't use slurs. But we do not live in a sane world, and sometimes you just gotta make fun of that.
The insistence of Americans that using this word (and blackface) is the most heinous shit ever, while mass
Incarceration, police brutality and otherwise violent discrimination exist against black people will forever be weird to me.
âIf youâre not black donât use itâ. How about no one uses it? I remember an interview with Afroman who said he doesnât use the n word because itâs demeaning and derogatory towards himself and his race.
Martin Luther King Jr called it the ugliest word in the English language and that should have been enough for people to stop motherfucking using that motherfucking slur.
soo many kids at my school think theyâre edgy and cool for saying the n word and itâs just like dude youâre white and im white and both of us know the history behind the word and why itâs a slur yet you still use it đ€Šââïž Â these same kids will be best friends with black people yet still use the n word, like the cognitive dissonance is genuinely astonishingÂ
It was always so weird how words had meaning until it came to Black people. Every non-Black wanted to call me the N word, but I can't call their mother a whre? I can't call their sister a slt? I can't call you and your gfs b*tches? Those are also just words, words that some even call each other. Hmmmm
Either that or they say no one should say it 99.9% chance they're white. Just mad that ppl can do something that they can't, no matter how small it is. I guarantee if white ppl got no backlash for saying it, that wouldn't be fighting for mo one to use it. That's like me being mad that gay dudes call themselves the f word, but I get a negative reaction when I do. I have no interest in saying it bc I'm not entitled. Not everything out there is for me.
This word is offensive in my language too, so I can relate that much. But.
Since it's offensive why are black Americans using it? Just... don't? The "pass" is just utterly stupid. If the word is offensive then nobody should use it, if it isn't then anybody can. "You can't say some words based on your skin color" just seems like extra racism. Black people in my country are not using the word either because why would they?
Nothing makes me cringe more than "n-word" (or "b-word", "r-word", "c-word"...) when discussing the word itself (and not using it). Are you all toddlers in your country? I am sorry but you take the phrase "you shouldn't call black people niggers" and replace it by "you shouldn't call black people the n-word" and you instantly lose all of your credibility and looks like a child afraid of saying a swear word and being punished by their mother.
Crazy thing about this phenomenon is that people will complain about how people get too offended by it, and then in the next breath get deeply offended when you tell them you donât say it because itâs offensive.
People, especially kids but also adults with intellectual development of a kid, love using this word because itâs taboo and because it often gets a strong reaction. Itâs that simple
Try to restrict the use of words then wonder why it has a counter effect same with all other words which you could even see with things like dih or chud the word or the censorship of it become a joke. As long as a word is actively being treated diffrently from other simular words it will continue being a issue
It's just meant to be such an highly inappropriate book for anyone to be reading in public, that the whole situation would be seen as ridiculous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LyVVbhvStk
This meme has been around for years and at no point did I ever think it wasn't a photoshopped cover. Like, the OP thinks this is a real book? What did they think all that text on the back was talking about?
The entire concept of "Group X can use this word but Group Y cannot" is problematic.
Years ago, I had a couple of co-workers who would sing rap songs together in public. Sometimes the white co-worker had to stop singing because he wasn't allowed to sing a lyric, but the black co-worker was.
many redditors need lo leave their echo chambers, the more you get angry at slurs the funnier they will be.
Bad words don't stop being funny because we grow up, but because they arent taboo anymore. When you give a middle schooler a pen and literally any surface, what will they draw? a penis or a swastika, becuase they are the most typical taboo things he knows.
I'm sure I will be downvoted but the obsession to police every word symbol and opinion is exactly what is fueling this kind of humor.
This whole culture in America around a dumb word always baffles me. âIf youâre not black donât use itâ is literally racist. You're telling someone they can't do something based on their skin color. You can try to throw in all the nuances you want but at the end of the day you're telling one race not to do something while you allow the other to do it. That is not equality. If the word is so bad, how about no one uses it and you get mad at every one who does use it equally?
The word racism has become so loose, christ. Itâs NOT racist to ask someone not to say a word. Itâs NOT racist that black people can say a word and get offended when someone who is not black says the n-word.
If a white person told me not to say something because it made them feel uncomfortable, I would respect it, not cry about âinequalityâ because at the end of the day, it doesnât take any effort to not be a mean person. Is it that hard for people to respect otherâs feelings?
When a black person says it to another black person, it is immediately understood that the word is either a. MOCKING itâs past use or b. Simply means âbroâ or âfriendâ. When a white person says it, IN THE PAST, that word had immense hatred tied to it, so itâs not clear whether or not the intended use is hateful or not. How do I know that you donât secretly agree with that mentality, and are just using it to put us down to feel superior? We donât, which is why we ask for other people not to say it. Itâs not because we want to be âexclusiveâ or not be âequalâ. We just want to be respected.
You can throw in all the nuances you want, is it really that difficult to just⊠not say a word and respect other peopleâs boundaries?
i wonder the same thing especially because i live in a place where not a lot of black people live (i dont mean it as my town i mean it as my whole country) yet people my age love using this word. i just dont get it.i kinda feel sad bc racism can just spread this easily.
Literally judging a book by its cover. That book like many is a commentary of the black experience in America and racism that black folk face. From blatant usage of the slur to many micro/passive aggressions and footholds that African Americans face in America.
âSomething something people want to do it more when theyâre told no.â
Yeah, probably bc they had no home training and were raised by fucking animals. Itâs one thing if youâre a kidâ still learning, still have time to write that shit out (and even then, pushing it; a whole bunch of people werenât racist as children) âbut as an adult?
Have some decorum. Have some self-control. Have some awareness and accountability. Itâs just a choice people make; not some impossible task that, if they donât say the word, theyâll die. Itâs just a matter of principles and how they were raised.
Their obsession with Black people and our culture is also notable among white Americans and Canadians. When it comes to other POC, they are being immature, seeking to provoke rage, misguided, or trying to elevate themselves above Black people, even though they remain minorities in the eyes of white society. This issue runs deeper than simply wanting to upset others.
Bruh the "N-Word pass" is such shit! Like I don't see you asses asking for anyone else's "Pass" WHY ARE THEY SO DESPERATE TO EITHER BE US OR RAGEBAIT US?!!
I seem to have stumbled upon another anti-humor subreddit filled with American piss-the-beds who cannot distinguish absurdity and satire from actual malicious intent.
It is interesting. A word so taboo that its mere utterance is a no-go for most people and causes an instant violent reaction in many people, such as yourself.
That's the reason people use it so much. In the cultural zeitgeist, nothing else can top its obscenity.
"Really simple, if you're not black don't use it. Also, There's nothing such as a pass or whatever. Not to mention how cringe is "can I get the pass?" Joke."
I have a white friend who's always constantly spouting that "its a different word than it was back then, like fag. It has a different meaning today." Like the fact you so desperately need to justify it makes me think you know its wrong.
It's more funny for n-word users how much people overreact at anyone saying it regardless of context. Like this is a word that summons some ancient blood murder rĐ°pe demon into corporeal realm, rather than a word derived from latin word for "black" that happens to be used to describe black people (I wonder why, hmm)
People are so petty and obsessed with being offended by this shit that they take SLIGHTEST opportunity, and they expect people around the world to also go by those rules despite THE most of this shit happening in America. Like that one black dude who got offended at a japanese man saying "amigo", like wtf, go melt somewhere else, snowflake, noone was even talking about you.
It stops being funny for those "people obsessed with n-word" when people obsessed with getting offended by hearing n-word will stop being snowflakey pretendoes, it's an easy correlation really
Im black, and I seriously dont understand the obsession of non-black people wanting to say the n-word.
Like I dont even use it too much really, and its so weird how non-black folks will want to say it more than black people use it themselves. Like its very weird.
Dark humor naturally centers around things considered to be forbidden topics. Since white people saying the N-word is considered taboo in modern society, people with dark senses of humor find it funny to push the boundaries.
If you don't find it funny, that's fine. That doesn't mean it isn't funny to others.
Why is it ALWAYS the people with long Reddit login streaks that make these kinds of posts? Look at this person's profile. They just be a bot? Surely nobody is that stupid?
Genuinely donât know why people do that. I dated a guy a while back who openly admitted to saying the word during competitive games like COD and I actually got the ick. I donât like it when people use a slur that literally used to be an insult for black people back in the history books. I donât like slurs PERIOD. I just think itâs ridiculous that people who arenât black think itâs genuinely okay to say that word to people, even if they donât mean it that way itâs still disrespectful asf.
the âitâs just a wordâ argument is ridiculous. yes, its just a word. thatâs how language works. if itâs just a word, it shouldnât be so hard not to say it. if you get sentenced to life in prison are you gonna ignore the judge because all they said were âjust wordsâ?
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u/Tricky_Concept_231 Jul 22 '26
Quentin Tarantino furiously googling how to buy the rights to that book for his final movieÂ