my friend said, "it is never, ever okay for white people to say (n-word)."

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89. yeah, I still don't get where you took something I didn't say from something I did say.

It kind of goes to this whole discussion. If I said a word, you should take it in the spirit I spoke it - to the extent you understood that spirit. And when I write words, you should respond to what I actually wrote, not your perverse interpretation of what I wrote.


So, when I say "No, but just like my Black friends I've been using words since I was a toddler" you should not read into that that I am saying I or my black friends have been using the N word since we were toddlers, because, well, that's not what it says. What you should read from that is that, no, I'm not black, but I am EXACTLY LIKE A BLACK person in that I've been using words my whole life, and white black brown blue or orange, every word ever fucking spoken on this planet ONLY HAS THE MEANING THAT THE PERSON SAYING IT MEANS IT TO HAVE.


All the authoritarians in conservative-land and, for that matter, authoritarians-in-liberal's-clothing on DU notwithstanding.