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Outrage Over "Nigger Brown" Couch
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Why is it that niggers can't bounce back from being called a nigger? She sounds like she will be emotionally scarred because she bought a nigger brown couch.
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Ouch! That's also true how it shouldn't purely be a computer error. Someone along the line has to proofread at least to make sure the labels aren't incorrect :s As frequently as the word is thrown out in a joking context, it's basically just as bad as naming a couch "porn sex sofa" or something, and having a kid stumble onto that.
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That movie looks awesome. And honestly, I can't stop laughing at the name nigger brown couch. That is hilarious.
They're Chinese who probably know very little, if any English at all. Though I doubt this will get as much attention as the nappy headed hos remark that Imus said. |
Something to keep in mind is that in Chinese there is no difference between black, negro, or nigger... they use the same word for all of that 黑 (black) 人 (person). Also certain ideas and stereotypes that are frowned upon in the US are common and accepted in China.
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So the black woman in the article is black, but you're going to go ahead and use a racial slur to describe her? Oh, it's the fuck on. I'm sorry, normally this shit is something I'd let slide, especially if it were one of the thousand racial jokes topics in the Sewers, but this here's General Discussion. I realize there's some humor in the topic and the article's content, but that doesn't necessarily excuse you from outright generalizing an entire group of people with a derogatory term. It's disturbing to see racism like that, so yes, I can understand this woman's feelings. It's like constantly being reminded that yes, the world thinks little of you as a whole, even though they don't openly acknowledge it. "Oh, they're niggers. They're brown like niggers. Don't they look like apes with those big lips and nappy hair?" It's so fucking easy to make fun of people who look different than you, isn't it dumbshit? Well newsflash, you fair-weathered chink, people can make fun of you rice-eating faggots just the same. Get off your high horse and open your eyes. OH WAIT. YOU ASIAN. |
THERES GONNA BE SHOOTINGS.
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Sup guys! If "nigger brown coach" were a picture on Engrish.com, you'd all be linking it in #gfchat and having a good-natured laugh at those silly, crazy Asians.
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Fucking pathetic. Why is it when nigger is used some idiot states it demeans all black people. I hate when people speak for me, then again I guess it's easier to argue a point when you claim you have the support of a whole race of people behind you. |
How can people be mad at this. Every time I say nigger brown and try to be mad I just start laughing. Ahaha jesus.
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I'll resume the angry negro position next time. |
lol, at least this isn't as bad as giving James Earl Jones this plaque
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/graphics/mlkday.jpg FYI: James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King Jr... so considering this plaque was supposed to be given to Jones on Martin Luther King Day.... Source:http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/mlkday.htm |
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"There'll be a new version of YOU if you don't shut up and get back to work, making couches" "What does that even mean?" "IT MEANS MAKE COUCHES" "But the dictionary is right here, it'll take like a second to chuck out the old one and use this" "WE COULD MAKE EIGHT THOUSAND COUCHES IN THAT ONE SECOND" "But we haven't sold a single one in ten years!" "THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE WASTING TIME NOT MAKING COUCHES, YOU'RE FIRED" "Finally" |
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And not everyone is as 'immune' to the negativity the word 'nigger' carries, or are you too stock full of your own shit to realize this? Quote:
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In my eyes whoever gets overly offended and lets it 'take a toll' on them or their family is a whiny pussy. Quote:
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I also don't get why the media and even some black folk refer to these guys as leaders in the black community ANYWAY. It's like, if you've got money and a big mouth, you're in charge. |
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I've never got why people get so offended over a fucking WORD anyway. You don't see the Jews bitching every time I say "holocaust". |
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I think it's pretty funny.
Why do I think it's pretty funny? BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUSLY A MISTAKE. Jesus Christ. Stop wasting time on being SO OFFENDED by a Chinese couch color which was lost in translation. Why not spend more energy on doing something productive instead of trying to play up your 15 minutes of fame and lawsuits. |
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I'm all for the Chinese workforce. OVERSEAS IN ACTION.
Yay. Let's throw in another scenario in the machine that creates situations for black people to get offended over. The last good one I remember is the jackass from Seinfeld verbally assaulting the black dudes at the nightclub. Quote:
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What color of brown is nigger brown anyway? Negroes come in lots of colors!
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And dammit OO, I'm going to watch that movie now. Quote:
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Oh shit. :tpg: |
^Then everyone's screwed of course!
Not everyone/thing that says prints "nigger" is out to demean black people, but keep in mind that word took about 200 years or more to downgrade from "ultimate insult" to just "nasty insult". |
couch people just need to apologize
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I have to agree with Klaus. Lord knows if the couch was cracker white, every lame-ass comedian from here to the ends of the earth would be using it for fuel in the equally lame-ass comedy shtick. Double standard much?
It's just a fucking word, and what's more an error that was caused due to translation issues. Oh noes the word nigger was used by accident and I'm black! Time for the lawsuit. |
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So this lady's actually gonna sue the company over a word? Hahaha sweet. I hope she wins so it'll teach those little Chinese kids to learn to read!
I made fun of child labor. I'm a bad person. :( |
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It's not like words have meaning, right? Words have no meaning at all!! Hmm www.dictionary.com |
Yes, the word has meaning and has the mild potential to traumatize an entire family. Maybe. But to get offended over an obvious mistake that was explained reasonably and satisfactory to the point that they need to sue and make a scene of themselves is ridiculous. The only person at fault here is this mother.
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It was a mistake. And HOW anal is it for people not to want to sit on the couch? Okay, I just read the rest of the article. The woman wants the people responsible to "own up" to the mistake. THEY ALREADY DID! The software company said--"That's our fault. We apologize. It is regrettable." So now she wants money that could come 6 months to two years from now? Sheesh! |
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Here's the couch. Actually, it kinda is the right color. :milk: |
"Nigger brown couch" is the funniest thing I've read in a while. Racism is hilarious, especially when it's not racism.
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Nice camera work. Good composition skills.
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I dunno, if I bought a couch and it was called "cracker white", I would be on the floor laughing.
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What's wrong with her eyes? That's the real issue here.
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Hmm. Do I type a furious reply and say how many people here don't seem to 'get' racism? Like how they think theres really nothing wrong with the word nigger, it's just a word, a damn word that black people been plugging for years anyway, damn coons they use it themselves? (even though the spelling is with an a) How people seem to think that every (although some do admitedly) black person who gets offended is just looking for attention and 'overreacting' just 'over a silly little word that school kids and thugs use in the playground'? How if the story was about a woman getting money over the use of the word bitch, they'd be more sympathetic? How people need to stop relying on the media and (lol) start thinking for themselves? How we can all make the world a better place, by Recycling? How only they can prevent forest fires? How to do the level select for Sonic 1?
Or, do I sit back and laugh at the description as 'nigger brown couch'? Lol! Honestly, I'd just settle for an apology from the couch company, and that they didn't do it again. I doubt I'd try to sue over it. Seems like a dumb mistake from the chinese carpet company that they're going to rectify anyways. Unfortunely, the word cracker is never going to mean as much to white people, as the word nigger does to black people. It's not just the word it's the history blah blah blah. You all KNOW. Just as if the couch was labled as 'Every Nazi's dream!', the word Nazi would just be enough for Jewish people to get angry. But if I knew an asian person who was offended by the word 'paki' and he thought he could get money, and he was willing to share with me, I'd say GO FOR IT! |
Maybe it's Niger-Brown, the Chinese-to-English dictionary is so stupid.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...whoa. Hold the phone. Just noticed something here. Is this chick Canadian? Cause, the story's from Toronto. Now, I'm no expert, but the Canadians didn't have slaves. So, like, that whole, "Nigger" issue, I'm thinking, you know, since it's really from the American South, can it really be a big deal for a Canadian black person? Does it have the same connotations? Do English black people, like black people in Britain, get offended by the word "Nigger"? Really?
Also, Sonic 3, it's up-down-left-right, up-down-left-right till you hear the "ding', then you do A+C (i think it's A+C, might be all three...) |
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It's a win win. LOL. Either way, the subject is funny to me. It might be racist, funny. It's just cause the asians are like *Scratches the back of his head* Nigger is our way of saying it's a black/brown couch! Maybe she should have bought a couch from america, LOL! Oh and about the jew thing, I've seen many people throw around 'that's jewish' regardless if they are jews or not so it's become one of those words no one cares about especially on the net. And lol @ the jew couch joke. |
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Now I know it's easy for me to speak out of my cracker-white mouth, but I think black people are pushing themselves back a few years each time someone becomes (willingly or not is irrelevant) offended by the racial slur. Obviously, the world has changed, and we know that what we had done in the past was wrong. There are a few people who still think that black people were born to pick cotton, but there are also people who thing it's their duty to massacre 32 people in a University. I realize that blacks have a much darker history than whites, but every time a black person connotates "nigger" with "worthless big-lipped slave" is doing their race a disservice. They should be pushing themselves to a point where nigger is taken the same way cracker would be, not using it as an excuse to get money, press, etc etc. (Yes, I know some get genuinely offended, but this is where they need be strong and push themselves ahead). It's kind of like gays. I have no problem with gays, but every time they have their Gay-Pride parades, It goes against the idea that they are just like you and I. If we want everyone to be equal, we can't have these minority/ethnic groups sticking themselves out like a sore thumb. Spoiler:
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I'm black and I get a chuckle out of it. I suppose they could take it the wrong way and if so they could always send it back.
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Wow, dumb people are motherfucking duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumb. You should learn how racism works and why it's such a touchy issue. |
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I just wish other races in the world had words with that sort of meaning you could use to insult them. Far worse shit has happened to people around the world than African slavery, yet they never seem to be able to cash in because they don't have a word for themselves as powerful as "nigger." |
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Now, I get how racism works and that, in this country (being America) I (being white) am not allowed to call a black person "Nigger" because it's hugely offensive, due to the vast history of oppression. That's what I understand, and that's what I agree too. I also understand that black oppression didn't actually happen world wide, which is why I brought up the UK, which is why I asked the question are black people in foreign countries as offended by the word as black people in America are? |
You don't have to explain yourself, this is Merv Burger we're talking about here. The sort of character that throws that random cuntpunch (thanks Elixir) to start a riot before running away, leaving the mess he left for someone else to handle. You should see this guys picture; a real master with racial issues.
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I hate this crap. It's just another way for people to get their panties in a bunch and flip out over nothing. I love the picture though. "O DESPAIR. I bought a nigger brown couch." Pain in her cross eyes and all. I am also going to ignore Sonic's little tirade, too. "Why don't people get racism?!" No one is dying over being called a nigger. What happened generations ago by completely different people in a completely different time should end there and then. Enough with the slavery card. It's over. It's BEEN over. The South lost. The end. |
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Whew, Goddamn, my question isn't about racism in other countries, it's about the word Nigger (in other countries), which was kinda the damn topic (and Devo, I'm gonna assume you meant South Africa, and not the entire continent).
I guess nobody really knows, cause all this grief seems to be about shit i'm not even talking about. |
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Why are you so hell bent on making use of the word nigger okay? |
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Racism is alive and well indeed, but the media only seems to pay attention when it involves the word "nigger" or blacks. Meanwhile, we have a Hot Pockets ad campaign with featuring an "old Asian man" caricature and nobody bats an eye. Casual, perhaps subconscious racism against other minority groups and even whites persists, but once there's anything that even remotely involves blacks, the media and Al Sharpton are all over it like lawyers chasing after an ambulance. |
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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=nigger
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Midna, I don't think Sass wants to make the word acceptable. Just less of a shocker.
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Devo's right, though I don't think the word has the same power anywhere else as in the states. Probably because of the freedom of expression. Though it really doesn't seem like the word was a big deal until after the Civil Rights movement. |
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Now, not having a degree in African-American studies, or the general nature of Racism at large, I'm going to have to defer to the end-all of knowledge: Wikipedia. I went ahead and typed the word "Nigger" in there and found out some interesting facts that negate your arguments and even answer the questions I was asking. As it turns out, back in the day, like way back in that late eighteenth century days when those colonies existed, the variations of "nigger" that were used weren't actually considered derogatory. "Nigger", and it's variations, were only used as an identifier, similar to the way we use "black" today. It wasn't until the 1960's, in the American North (as it turns out) that "nigger" became offensive, and it was during the ensuing race war that it gathered all the negativity it now holds today. Listen carefully now, Devo: Quote:
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True, they were colonized a while after America was, but the idea of colonization is still the same, be it 16th or 18th century. Plus, in my understanding, a lot of modern-day African life (i'm assuming you mean the absolute horror that it is) is mainly due to Africans. I'm not wrong in thinking Africa isn't a colony anymore, right? |
All right, Devo, until you actually provide some evidence to support that claim, I'm going to have to go ahead and say you're wrong. Did you even read the post where i pointed out where you are wrong on that? Let me say it again, since you have some sort of reading disorder. "Nigger" didn't become offensive until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's in the NORTHERN UNITED STATES. Until then it was used as an IDENTIFIER, like we used the word Black today. This whole fucking argument is over the WORD. Not oppression. There's plenty of oppressed people that have shit to do with the word "nigger".
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perhaps you forgotten the freedom fries BS from a few years ago? |
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Did you even read your own post. You said America used to be a colony and Africa used to be a colony (lol), and America doesn't hold a grudge with England anymore so why are blacks so uppity?
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oh my god. this has gotten way out of control, and i'm washing my hands of it. I tried my best to make a sound argument, but evidently, something went horribly wrong. Have fun rambling incoherently about whatever it is you're trying to talk about.
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Look at the American novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, released in 1884, and is regarded as one of the most eloquent attacks on racism ever written. The book also happens to contain the word "nigger" 212 times. The word is casually used as a racial identifier, like the words "colored" or "black" and as a satire on the boorish nature of the white characters in the novel. At any rate, the word certainly was not as outright offensive then as it is today. |
Disregard this post. Point is, it's not offensive, and never should be.
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LOL! This is why I never take internet forums seriously! What sort of history has Yank to it? How many people call you Yank in order to demean you? Again, look at the HISTORY. I know you want to wipe it under the carpet, hey maybe people in Germany are upset because they (sometimes) get labeled as nazis, when that whole Hitler misunderstanding happened before their time. And they get blamed for both world wars, when really you'll see it was all economical. That plus politics, you know it's always politics. So I can sort of see where you are comming from. I mean, if everyone wants to be equal, why ever have a Black parade, or Black rights, because if a white person did them, that'd be racist. Why can't decent white people have a White Power parade, being proud of and trying to promote more white-only groups? That group the JJJ, is it? They've got the right idea. I understand entirely. That whole segregation incedent happened hundreds of years ago. Damn jigs. Why can't they just let go of the past? Hey they use it themselves, so they can't complain if a white guy calls them a nigger maybe at work or in the street. And besides, dont you know at least one black who's ok with you calling him a nigger and all? So if that one guy can see, why can't they all see? PLUS!!! If you go over many posts here, including my own, you'll see that I describe many situations as 'gay', so just who am I to try to preach? How dare I try stick up for 'those damn dirty choco-faces' when I don't lend a hand to the homosexual community? AND!! You don't see chinese people getting worked up every time the word 'chink' is used, do ya? Seriously man, I swear some people are so duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumb. |
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Usually because when people start saying White Power they are crazy and think that because their skin is lacking a pigment that they are superior to other races. |
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Nigger nigger nigger. I'm tired of all this crying over nothing bullshit. |
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That woman just wants money; why else make a big deal about a nigger-brown couch? I got some nigger-brown used motor oil and some nigger-brown dirt for sale, also a new brand of suntan lotion in a bottle, new from Nike Nigger-Brown in a bottle. |
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Sonic, Devo was being sarcastic towards whinehurst. I doubt she'd take that stance.
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Why you gotta troll? |
While you're here: What exactly did the Germans misunderstand about our humanitarian Hitler?
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Officially requesting NIGGER BROWN forum template.
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Speaking of double standards. Isn't it kinda funny that they can have the 'race' of your choice groups or frats/sorinities. But yet if there is a white one, you get called out for being a racist? Isn't quite sad but very funny? It recently happened at the college I am attending to. It's quite funny, the dean told them they had to break it up/not meet anymore. |
Officially seconding both requests.
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really though, why can't we have any white pride Additional Spam: Quote:
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you should just kill yourself now. |
Nigger brown couch can't be offensive. I laugh every time someone says it in a post. If anything Nigger brown couches are healing the world one smiling child at a time.
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The Irish might get offended when they find out they have nigger-brown potatoes.
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I'm convinced that "nigger brown couch" is one of the funniest phrases ever. I told my buddy and he completely lost it for ten minutes, and he couldn't concentrate after that.
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Reading through this thread I'm reminded of what I did when I was in 3rd grade:
We were doing some Black History Month coloring activity with crayons and what not. Anyway, I had Martin Luther King Jr. to color in. At the time I was thinking "Hmmm, he's black, sooooo...." and I grabbed a BLACK CRAYON and colored MLK Jr. PITCH BLACK. You could not see shit on his face, he looked like a shadow. I showed my teacher when I was done and she laughed off and on for the rest of the day about it. I had no idea what I did wrong, so I just left it at that. It was only after I looked at my classmates' pictures and saw that everyone colored their black guy/girl nigger-brown that I realized what I did wrong. And that, my friends, is why Black History Month should be renamed to Nigger-Brown Month. The end. |
I bet it was just some ass hole thing an employee did, and the company is blaming it on a computer program rather than a person so they might not be held as liable :\
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From now on, the company should micro manage, whip in hand.
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Or just get a good laugh from it and let the boys know they need to settle the fuck down.
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Is he wearing boxers that big?
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Why are they assraping everything.
Also third request of Nigger Brown template, only rename it to Nigga Brown to add some flava to it*shot, lynched, and hacked* |
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Well I can see why they're mad because nigger is a bad word to use because of slavery and it offends black african americans of color.
So I don't use that word and I think that no one else should because it's stupid. |
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What the FUCK are they doing? |
This is so simple.... Nigger means uneducated... If you're uneducated then you're a Nigger, Being black, white or anything. The only people who are offended are Niggers who KNOW they're Niggers
NiggA... is something different... White people have Dudes... Black people have Niggas... Simple as that A Nigga is just a black dude |
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C'mon, Devo. It takes a lot of effort to hit the "period."
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Maybe we're supposed to put the extras where they belong?
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And also... there were Sand Niggers which reffered to Arabs (which I thought was kinda mean) I hate how people make fun of other people. It takes more strenghth to open your mouth to comment than to shutup and look away. (Or Maybe I just think that way due to my nigger complex) Also, I've heard that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile. So if everyone smiles, and not frown, will that make them lazy? If so... everybody that smiles from now on got the Nigger complex... cause they're to lazy to frown. BURN!!!!!! |
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