you’re not an ally, you’re not a liberal, you’re not progressive, you’re not even a decent person if you came here to argue for your right to say this word. fuck you

Not to mock you, but how would you feel about this sentence: “I don’t know if I’m going to get reamed for this, but he just made one small remark about his coworker’s attractiveness. Nothing hateful here. Or sexist. Sexism continues to plague this country in many grotesque ways but this isn’t one of them.”

Fairness has nothing to do with it. On the spectrum of “things that are definitely not fair”, POC have A WHOLE LOT BIGGER grievances than “can’t say a specific word” that they have to reckon with every day. Another thing Ta-Nehisi Coates pointed out, is the cultural phenomenon of black people having to police…

There IS no gray area, though. It is wrong.

That’s a great point. Literally the only time it’s okay for a white person to say it is if they are in a Tarantino movie LMAO

“Don’t want them singing it? Don’t say it in the first damn place.” That’s like saying the woman who was wearing provacative clothing was asking for it. It’s her right to wear whatever she wants, and its POC’s right to say whatever they want.

I am a very very good rapper (I can do all of ‘Look At Me Now’ by Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes), and I always say brother.

They’re not just lyrics. The word itself has a powerful meaning. It is caked in the context of hundreds of years of terrorization and slavery and misery and oppression, oppression that still goes on in many ways, that I cannot fathom. As a white person, I am not allowed to say that word. Full stop. That community owns…

The songs... aren’t for white people. Just because white people like them, doesn’t mean that Cardi B or Kendrick or Kanye or whoever the fuck was sitting in the studio thinking, “I really want to feel the passion Karlie Kloss feels when she says the n-word.”

Are looking for more white tears? Because that’s the way to get it.

And yet it’s a word they would never have the balls to say to my face...

Wow I’m already exhausted reading all the bullshit from this thread.

*Taking names*

I don’t know why it’s so hard for white people to understand that the word is not for them. This whole thread is mind-boggling.

And once again, there are black people on this post TELLING US how they feel about the use of that word by us white people, and there are idiots STILL arguing with them. Listen to what people tell you, dammit. IT IS NOT OKAY.

So...black people should censor themselves in creating an artwork so white people don’t have to censor themselves while they sing along. Got it.

I figured this thread would be full of people making bullshit excuses for these people and look at this. I was right! White people absolutely love the idea of being able to say this word and really don’t give a shit anymore.

Batten the hatches, incoming white feminist swarm. Set condition Becky throughout the blog.

Words mean things. She is calling someone a nigga in the song. By you singing it, you are doing the same.

White girl crazy