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Why is it so difficult to address someone the way they wish to be addressed, and refrain from addressing someone they way they do not wish to be addressed?
Nobody has to justify to you why they prefer something, it's just that they prefer it that way, and you should just respect it. Just run that conversation through your mind. Use any word.
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This is especially true if the society is segmented by race. Those that use the N word ought to have some intelligence to understand that the word is divisive and further promotes racism. But, sadly, they don't. |
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However, if I say that you can poke me (because you are black) but that guy......over there.........cannot poke me (because he is white), what does that make me? It makes me a RACIST...........pure and simple. |
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They have a relationship?
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Do they need one?
Take random people.............one is black............one is white. It's acceptable to use the phrase for the black individual but not acceptable to use the phrase for the white individual. RACIST. |
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Words uttered by different people mean different things. Words uttered by members of a group with one shared experience do not mean the same as words uttered by a different group with a different set of shared experiences. Words do not have a one to one correspondence between languages. If I gave you an English-Swahili dictionary with the meaning of every single word translated native Swahili speakers would look at you funny if you interjected, maybe even feel a little offended. It's the same in the workplace. You don't throw engineering terms at engineers if you're in marketing.
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Understand that and then ask yourself if you want to continue to divide people into groups, and for how long. |
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I simply avoid using word or phrases that might offend anybody. I don't care if it is "fair" or not.
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That list is not the same as people who are offended by the n word- those offended are a larger group. Using the n word is continuing to divide. I fail to understand and why intelligent people do not universally disapprove it's use knowing it causes division. |
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But yes. I want to divide people into groups, and not all division is bad. It also doesn't mean we cannot respect each other based on the social boundaries we set for others and ourselves. We are not the same and we have to recognize that. Treat others as they would like to be treated. I like coffee, you like tea, and if I know that in advance I'd buy some of the good stuff before you came over.
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I would wonder why, but if they had any emotional intelligence they'd wise up pretty quick.
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But you have judged if they need to have "emotional intelligence" or not -solely based on the color of skin that you judge to be considered "black". Blacks don't need to be "emotionally intelligent" as well then?
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