#blacklivesmatter racism is a human problem

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Oliver Schick in reply to @cornelius_blackfoot

There’s no verbal insult that any black person can throw at a white person that stings as much as nigga or placing black in front of any expletive. Cracker, honky, gammon, Karen, whitey, red neck, they all carry no weight because they don’t diminish the recipient in the way that black bastard, black cunt, black fucker does. Or spic, greaser, spook. There’s not 400 years of subjugation or oppression or persecution or colonialism behind any of those terms

Yes, we had that problem a while ago during the discussion about this:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15236935/

(Goes on for four or five pages after that.)

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cornelius_blackfoot in reply to @Oliver Schick

I should just say in relation to the punching of anyone who throws around racist terms, no white person can tell any black person how they should react or what they should do. If said person of colour wants to lay the smack down on someone calling them a racist term, then that’s entirely up to them.

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jono84 in reply to @cornelius_blackfoot

Sincere question, if i witnessed someone using racist language against somebody and thought the situation was going to escalate to violence i shouldn't say anything to try and calm the situation down as that would be conceived as trivialising how the abuse victim is feeling?

In my head telling the victim that i witnessed the abuse, would stand as a witness but ask that they don't retaliate with violence if it looked like that's where things were headed would not be such a bad thing. But do you feel that could very well escalate the situation and leave them feeling more isolated?

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