Resetera continues their attack on freedom of speech.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/casual-usage-of-the-n-word-by-non-black-people.70726/
Once again, they're showing their "dixiecrat" roots by believing skin color entitles you to public privileges.
So strange.
I came across this video the other day (NSFW + trigger I guess because it has the N word):
The video is actually really cute. The kid is an awesome bike-rider (better than I ever was) and I understand the cameraguy saying "little N*" was doing so cheerfully and to encourage the kid. Nothing wrong there. I have no problem with the kid nor the guy taking the video.
But from a zoomed-out view, stuff like this is "problematic", to use a phrase loved by our IdPol friends. This kid is riding down the street while someone calls "little N*". How is he meant to perceive that? Should he be offended at the word? What if the person calling it was out of sight? Unaware of the caller's skincolor, how would the child decide if this was "friendly encouragement" or "extremely racist hate-speech"? Imagine growing up this way. Imagine having to make that coin flip in your head each time you hear the N-word.
We have learned a lot about brainwashing and conditioning in the past 100 years. When you manipulate words and add hidden rules to language, it makes a populace malleable. The communist regimes used this to great effect.
Even as a cultural curiosity, I wonder what kind of damage to the psyche we're causing when we call children "little N*" during their upbringing, cramming that word into music, using it as a term of endearment, while at the same time teaching them to violently react whenever the "wrong person" says it. What kind of paradigm does that give a young mind, when they have to act out an obvious contradiction because their parents "said so"? Isn't this the criticism leveled at religion? Isn't this called "brainwashing"?