In Defense of the N-word

[Scogan]

This topic is sensitive.  I'll tread with reason and logic.  I ask that you read with reason and logic.

 

I challenge you.  Name one banned word.  Just one.

 

None should come to mind.  Ahh.. but for the N-word.

 

We live in an age where we have wrongly bestowed words with power, when they have none.  Words provoke emotion, inspire action, convey communication, cast insult, bully the senses.  There was a reason during my youth where our common kid-chant was, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."   I can remember saying that often as a kid whenever insults were hurled my way.  Note that I said 'insults,' not 'harmful insults.'  No word is harmful as they are unable to inflict harm.  Yet they can insult the senses.  That chant armed me for life, to this day no word can hurt me, nor should it.  

 

The N-word is no doubt a racial insult.  Saying it can provoke emotion.  That emotion can invoke harm.  And that is the problem. 

 

We often hear there are limits to free speech, 'you can't yell fire in a theater!"   Well no... you can, if there is a fire.  So there is no ban on words and what you can say.  But there are consequences.  Yell fire in a theater when no fire is present and you risk paying a fine, or possibly face misdemeanor arrest depending on the fallout.  

 

Threaten the life of a President and the secret service will pay you a visit.  Words have consequences.  

 

While all people should practice the kid-chant as a means of dismissing all insult, AND SERIOUSLY SO,  ignoring the insult lends no power to the word.  It becomes meaningless and backfires onto the hurler.  It reveals the hurler's inner character to all present.  It builds up the character of the person that it was intended to hurt.  He or she can endure a verbal storm unscathed and be stronger for it.  

 

Hate speech?  Banned words?  Those are the ways of petty tyrants, communists regimes.  They are not the hallmarks of a free society blessed with Liberty and Freedom.

 

As I write this I have no underlying urge to say the N-word in it's original form.  But I choose to defend those that might say it in order to protect my own free speech.  At some point I may even choose to say that word to illustrate a free speech point.  There are critical times in history where standing up for the worst of what people can say or do, within boundary of law (First Amendment), requires uncommon courage in the face of mobbish social outrage.  I take that stand.  

 

All words matter.  Or no words matter at all.  That is as black and white as it gets.  

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr Ed]

Prejudice by Tim Minchin - YouTube

[Macnamara]

6 hours ago, Scogan said:

 during my youth where our common kid-chant was, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."   I can remember saying that often as a kid whenever insults were hurled my way.  Note that I said 'insults,' not 'harmful insults.'  No word is harmful as they are unable to inflict harm.  Yet they can insult the senses.  That chant armed me for life, to this day no word can hurt me, nor should it. 

 

Yes that chant was about being strong within yourself against the shit that life throws against you. It was about encouraging mental robustness and emotional self-reliance

 

The modern woke politically correct approach is about the opposite. It is about enablement of dependency on the state and on mental and emotional weakness and as a result we have seen the rise of the 'snowflake' who is a person unable to cope with the difficulties of life

 

The purpose of this shift in the context of THE CONSPIRACY is to breed a generation of weak people who always look to the big brother state to solve all of their problems. In other words it is to breed a slave class of helpless dependents. If you look up the definition of slavery it is to be the helpless victim of a dominating force and state dependency where the state will use force against you if you step out of line IS slavery except it is not existing in isolated plantations it is making the entire of society a plantation

 

I would never personally use the N word not because i think it should be illegal to use it but because it is essentially saying someone is a useless layabout who is only fit to be a slave and if we are saying that humanity can be capable of self organising then we must believe that human consciousness can be raised so that people can become mentally, physically and emotionally resilient and able to become individuated and actively engaged individuals

Edited April 30, 2021 by Macnamara

[Scogan]

4 hours ago, Macnamara said:

 

 

I would never personally use the N word not because i think it should be illegal to use it but because it is essentially saying someone is a useless layabout who is only fit to be a slave and if we are saying that humanity can be capable of self organising then we must believe that human consciousness can be raised so that people can become mentally, physically and emotionally resilient and able to become individuated and actively engaged individuals

 

 

Well put.  Ethnic slurs are a mirror reflection on those that use them.  Saying them reflects inner hatred toward humanity including ones own self.  It's all about brotherly love and treating one another with genuine respect.  Something that social media does not promote by the mobs they produce.  

Edited April 30, 2021 by Scogan