If the person who can fire you begins a statement with “I hope you can” 99.9% of the population knows that really means “Do this or you’re fired” and we know this is what Trump meant BECAUSE THEN HE FIRED HIM FOR NOT DOING IT.

You are behaving like a troll.

People are answering you sincerely, you’re not listening.

You absolutely are. There was literally no need to say it twice in that sentence unless you really wanted to. And stop pretending you’re “just curious” and genuinely trying to understand why some people think something is wrong if you admit you’ve already decided you don’t care what they think or how it affects others…

If that’s the case, then you’re deliberately obtuse and/or a fucking troll.

Yes.

The problem for me (prefacing this by stating I am a white female BTW) is the nonchalance of it. It just rolled off his tongue so smoothly it’s difficult to imagine that’s not a regular word in his vocabulary, if not his inner monologue. Does it make him a RACIST? I think we need to be honest with ourselves that we…

Man you are just really going out of your way to say it as many times as possible when it would be so easy to just say n-word for this conversation as a show of good faith if this really is an honest attempt to understand other’s sensitivity as you say it is.

You mean a racistist, or a meta-racist? Racism apologist? “Meta-racism meta-apologist” seems most accurate... But hey, that doesn’t mean you can’t be a bona fide racist, too!

Of course abbreviating it is an attempt to diminish the pain that it causes. That is the point. To not subject people over and over again to an incredibly painful racial slur, for no reason.

You don’t... understand? that a white person using the ‘n’ word is an inherently racist thing to do...? Like where does someone even go from there in trying to have a conversation about this if you’re not even on board with that concept.

I said this to her in a reply (probably not a good idea bc troll) but I get a strong feeling she’s probably got a Blue Live Matter sticker on her car.

You love typing it, huh?

This:

The word was born from racism. Its use was/is only for hate. Why use a word completely devoid of any respect, and brimming with hate, in casual conversation and commenting? And how does not spelling it out make you forget its power and meaning?

I don’t really think it’s appropriate for non-black people to use it in any context.

Thanks, I will do that.

Thank you. At this point, the question of whether or not someone is “a racist” is almost always asked by people trying to get a “get out of racism free” card.

Seconded. I don’t want to look at it.

I can’t explain it fully, because I am not a race scholar, but I can make reference to an analogy, although it is a poor analogy.