That’s not the point I’m arguing. I know how a random black dude would most likely act. I’m also highlighting how the word is used in my previous post and the context of it matters more than the word itself when calling someone racist and placing hateful motives on them.
This generation of kids isn’t connected to the KKK or Jim Crowe south. Hatred of blacks isn’t the norm, it’s the outlier. It’s an outrageous shocking thing.
I don’t disagree, but you do realize that ‘ownership’ of the n word isn’t yours, right?
Put this in the same context as ‘ferret’, or ‘queer’.
It’s a very different thing when some meth-head pickup truck driving idiot calls you a ‘ferret’, vs. you calling your boyfriend a ‘ferret’, in jest.
(No offense to the meth-head pickup drivers out there).
It’s context.
I went to HS with white kids in the 1990’s who absolutely loved Public Enemy, but couldn’t figure out that loving PE didn’t give them license to say ngr ngr ngr.
It is what it is.