Outrage Over "Nigger Brown" Couch

Originally Posted by Midna

Why are you so hell bent on making use of the word nigger okay?

It is okay, or have you not ever heard any mainstream, popular rap music? Oh wait, I forgot there's a double fucking standard.

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Devoxycontin

Are you seriously using wikipedia for your etymology points? I guess the word is only offensive when whites suddenly become outraged at the usage.

Actually, Wikipedia is quite right in this regard, at least in the word's use in the United States. At one point in time the word "nigger" (derived from the Latin niger, meaning "black") was commonly used as an identifier for various dark-skinned peoples. It did not carry the overt hostility and offensiveness that it does today.

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.

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