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| PhantOS:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on March 28, 2017, 07:07:33 PM ---You're acting like it was only black people who were in a stuffty spot back then. You realize that the Great Depression struck the US in '29 right? Employment was stuff in general. --- End quote --- And the government worked to fix that in the late 30s. Even as the great depression was making it hard for everyone, it was already hard for african americans. Living life on a plantation and then being forced to choose between staying to work even longer or leaving so you could starve to death is much worse than losing your house to foreclosure. Labor laws didn't exist back then, so working on a ranch or plantation as an african american child was hell, and you probably wouldn't be payed enough to afford bread every day. |
| Magus:
It's a wonder this time period isn't taught in U.S. history classes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_of_American_race_relations |
| SetGaming:
--- Quote from: beachbum111111 on March 28, 2017, 07:07:33 PM ---You're acting like it was only black people who were in a stuffty spot back then. You realize that the Great Depression struck the US in '29 right? Employment was stuff in general. --- End quote --- 1926 != 1929 - path is literally citing a time in which there was the most active and largest economic boom in the US, was when his great grandmother had worked - just because the great depression happened a couple years later doesn't mean that it was actively happening at the current moment. his great grandmother had stuffty working conditions during the roaring twenties, it doesn't matter that the great depression came right after. |
| Timestamp:
after using it so much satirically and ironically i've been desensitized to it and just about any other insult i've come across besides you can still treat black people normally and equally and say the word "monday" as a joke, i mean there's no limit to it unless if you suck off the kool kids klub i guess |
| Hansome duded:
historical and insulting usage aside, the problem with the word nowadays stems from usage itself as a term of endearment/joke and the entire movement of trying to restrict people who aren't black from saying it. (or just saying it at all.) the entire problem of the word are the people having to decide the proper usage of it, such as many other taboo slurs and words. like when it can be used, who it can be used with, where it can be used, why it could be used, etc. the problem is that the decision is completely split upon our society. many people of said society like to use it as endearment, while many other people despise the word and find it taboo matter what the intended meaning. it's put people at a crossroads. i don't think it'll ever be widely accepted (or widely despised) ever again. me? --- Quote from: Timestamp on March 28, 2017, 07:15:54 PM ---after using it so much satirically and ironically i've been desensitized to it and just about any other insult i've come across --- End quote --- this. i've never used it to insult someone, nor as a form of endearment. but i have used it satirically. |
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