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Would you suggest that "nigger" was a slur that's "around to stay" because at one time rude people used it?? I'm sorry, but you've gone over the edge on this one...

Well ... I think it IS around to stay for a while and the black community has developed it's own means of dealing with it. Some have "reclaimed it"... some have to chosen to educate others about the history of the term... so on and so forth. The point is that they've all come up with ways of dealing with it on their own.

I think the term "teabagger" is like that. I think it's past the time when it can just be shut, down, killed quickly, and forgotten by next month. That can be done sometimes with quick action. If it's too late for that though then that means we're at the "what do we do about it now" stage.

That was ALL my comment said - that it's not going to fade away in the next few weeks they way other slurs sometimes do in politics. I didn't say anything bothered me. I didn't say that people should do nothing in response. I didn't say anything except that I don't think it's going away. That's a fairly value neutral observation.

Would you suggest that "nigger" was a slur that's "around to stay" because at one time rude people used it?? I'm sorry, but you've gone over the edge on this one...
------------------------------------------------------ Well ... I think it IS around to stay for a while and the black community has developed it's own means of dealing with it. Some have "reclaimed it"... some have to chosen to educate others about the history of the term... so on and so forth. The point is that they've all come up with ways of dealing with it on their own

If you try using the term "nigger" in middle American you'll find yourself fired. So pleeeeze - don't give me the liberal crap -

Members of the MSM who use a term gay men use for putting another man's "ba--s in their mouth are horrible.

They seem to be doing their best to come up with the ugliest names in the culture to call us.

Can you imagine the amount of outrage there would be in liberal-land if people on FOXNews referred to all democrats as "niggers"? On TV - in primetime?

Calling conservatives "teabaggers" is the same thing.

A member of the media who uses that term should suffer the same fate as a member of the media who uses the term "nigger".