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Originally Posted by JJIII
Thank you for having the courage to actually use the word "nigger'. It is a hateful word in today's society, but skirting around with phrases like "the N- word", or "ni**er", when everyone knows just exactly what word you mean is just so much crap. If you don't have the balls to type the real word, don't use a cop out. Use an acceptable word. There are many to choose from.
Racism does still exist. Turning the language into Angel Food Cake does nothing to solve that problem.
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Bullshit, John. In teaching language to kids it is all important to differentiate between acceptable words and unacceptable ones. Using the N word when I was raised up in the '60s was a guaranteed mouthful of soap, justifiably so, imho.