I edited the original post, since I radically misinterpreted the original post.
I'm sorry for the strong remarks.
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Kendrick Lamar calls out white fan for rapping n-word onstage with him at concert [Read OP]
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I'm sorry for the strong remarks.
To see how other people feel about it, I have some friends from the middle east that don't understand how this a problem and how using the word is an issue. Curious about how some can put no blame on Kendrick and and think the fan was in the wrong and how others feel the other way that he should've told her before hand or mention it to the entire crowd so everyone knows going forward what he wants them to do.
Should've skipped it or replaced with "sucka!" or something.
Like, even if Lamar had explicited said beforehand "go ahead it's fine", there's no way in hell any white person should feel comfortable saying that, especially in front of thousands of people at a concert. I think she was a little dumb and doesn't seem like offence was intended, or taken, so it probably all worked out for the best, and some folks got educated along the way.
Like, even if Lamar had explicited said beforehand "go ahead it's fine", there's no way in hell any white person should feel comfortable saying that, especially in front of thousands of people at a concert. I think she was a little dumb and doesn't seem like offence was intended, or taken, so it probably all worked out for the best, and some folks got educated along the way.
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I mean yeah I get that. I was there and pretty much everyone was saying nigga.
Trying to stop a bunch of hyped, drunk/high (mostly white) college kids from saying the word is a tall order. I'm not going to be one who insists they don't say it, but that doesn't mean other black people are cool with it.
Are you seriously gonna sit there and tell me that an artist or some other person of color is gonna get mad if a white person decides to omit a racial slur from their songs?
Do you realize how stupid that sounds?
Read the thread? Read the original thread for this. Hell read the ten or so other threads here about this very subject.
Literally everyone of your questions has been answered already, there is no discussion to be had here.
Its worse than that.
People are saying they have to say nigga to "remain true to the authenticity of the art and the artist"
What?
You performing at Madison Square Garden? For the president?
You're signing a song. We have plenty of white artists who prospered in hip hop because they understood the rules of the culture and respected it.
This thread has a shitton of posters saying they're exempt from the rules.
You wanna scream nigga while singing in your room, go right ahead... Leave that shit there. Nobody wants to hear you say at the club, party, in the car, in a box, with a fox.
We don't wanna hear that shit.
It's no surprise some try to make this more complicated than it actually is, After all this country was built on disrespecting black people
User Banned (1 Week): Denying the historical context for reclaimed language despite extensive clarification throughout the topic
The notion that people should just accept sweeping global pronouncements regarding what they can and cannot say in any and every context without any justification is some absolutely Orwellian bullshit.
User Banned (1 Week): Arguing in bad faith throughout the thread. Dismissive attitude towards users while asking to be educated.
I did read it and asked some questions that got answered? Glad not everyone is as closed minded as you are about someone curious about something. Educate instead of being passive aggressive when someone doesn't parrot your thoughts.
Damn I just tried this with every verse using the n-word and it's amazing, lol
Dude.. If you don't understand why white people shouldn't say the nword, just open a history book.
There are no tricky rules or subtext here. Just. Don't. Say. It.
Then why are you here? If you think this place is so bad, why not leave?
There is plenty of discussion to be had on the forum but this is a private that has rules.
There are other sites where you're free to discuss whatever bigoted nonsense you think is not allowed here.
What was passive aggressive about my post? I expressed pretty clearly how I feel.
You asked questions that have been answered countless times. It is circular nonsense.
I hate this fucking dude so much, but if I'm not mistaken he's half Black and half Puerto Rican.
Same reason he hasn't caught heat for being a pedophile
I'm curious as to how many white people ITT who argue that they should be allowed to say the word would be fine saying it in front of a black person they don't know.
This is a rhetorical question of course, because the answer to this is 0. Why? Because you all know a black person IRL would be offended by this, yet you all are pretending as if this is a completely foreign concept.
This is a rhetorical question of course, because the answer to this is 0. Why? Because you all know a black person IRL would be offended by this, yet you all are pretending as if this is a completely foreign concept.
lol..Carlos with that bullshit. I'm now trying to imagine her face the moment she heard it..i'm assuming it was something like
I mean, at least in America, you aren't going to get arrested for posting an insta video of you, a white person, rapping along with Kendrick on your toilet.
Thing is, it's generally viewed as socially unacceptable for white people to say it. Just like it's generally viewed as socially unacceptable to shit on someone's porch.
It's not orwellian to understand that you are going to be judged according to how you comport yourself in public. Get a grip.
Waiting for the inevitable anecdote where someone comes in and say, "I have multiple black friends and they all let me say this word around them." I'm amazed it hasn't happened yet, tbh. Normally that's a page two or three thing.
But what if the word quantum leaps into my mouth? What should Sam Beckett do if he leaps into a black man's body? What if he leaps into Kendrick's body on stage!?
But, it's a gap that's felt and acknowledged by the silence in the music. Throwing in some other word just to keep the rhythm seems really awful.
Not omit--replace the word with some other word, like people were suggesting at the start of this thread. I'm saying your choices are omit or ask their permission to use the word. To use some other word that sounds the same, but isn't the word seems really offensive to me, at least.
Accusing a group of people who were enslaved, oppressed and are still horribly mistreated in many unfair manners to this very day as being some 1984 style oppressive government in control of what people can and can't say is so incredibly stupid and disingenuous. You're literally making the oppressed the oppressor because you can't say one ugly word. Fuck off
Absolutely. But that's not my point. So many people in this thread are pretending to be confused as to why they can't say the N word. But at the same time they would never say that word to a black person they didn't know in real life.
This is contradictory to me, because it shows that they know that the word is wrong for them to use, but are pretending otherwise ITT.
Just wanna say, I love the mod team on ERA, and don't think you guys get enough appreciation.
Thank you for making this a policy moving forward, so I don't have to re-litigate with an anonymous poster in thread #342344523 why they have no place policing POC on how to reclaim their words.
Thank you for making this a policy moving forward, so I don't have to re-litigate with an anonymous poster in thread #342344523 why they have no place policing POC on how to reclaim their words.
So a white person like me replacing the N-word with the word brotha or sucka like some have suggested is more offensive to you than if I were to actually use the N-word itself?
You can't actually be serious right now.
Say what you want to say, never hide behind pc culture, shout it out so the whole world can hear.
But just so we are all on the same page, people also have the freedom to respond to the word by using another word, "racist" and identifying you as such.
I dunno, I kind of agree with him. Just don't say it - no need to replace it with "ninja" or some other cheeky rhyme. The previous thread had a lot of suggestions for replacement words, and a lot of them struck me as really impudent. But omission of the n-word is the point, so whatever.
Doesn't matter. He's not black and shouldn't be saying it. Eminem grew up in 8 mile and even he knows he can't say it. It's not in any of his songs and you have to dig deep in the Internet to find a video of him letting the word slip
You, and me, as white people can't police how people are going to get offended at our use or replacement of that word.
If Nappuccino is going to get offended at any replacement, then don't use replacements around him, it's simple and not hard y'all.
Besides, some of the words people use are really just sneaky ways to try and get away with saying the n-word.
Someone in this thread suggested migga which is just... lmao really?
You'll have to excuse some of us who are tired of repeating ourselfs
Shit wears on us
Lol it was a joke my man, but feel free to keep lashing out at any post that doesn't contain something that's in full agreement with you, that seems healthy. I'm perfectly fine with not saying the n-word, just found the officious nature of the post funny.
it shows that they don't think the word is wrong to use but have respect for other people's comfort
You thinking that mod post and rule is funny is why people don't take to kindly to your comment. For many it's not funny in the slightest especially when you have to repeat the same thing over and over and over.
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