I posted this in another thread, but am reposting them here :
This is just an observation and isn’t meant to pass any moral judgment.
I observe that in today’s PC climate, there are certain “rules” you have to follow :
1) It is OK to racially disparage people of your own “race” but not people NOT of your race. Hence using the word -— “Nigga” is fine, BUT ONLY IF YOU’RE BLACK, BUT NOT IF YOU’RE WHITE.
2) If you are to call people Ho’s, don’t BE SPECIFIC about it. Make it “general” as in -— “women I date are ho’s”, “women who come on to me are ho’s”. Imus’ PC problem was this — HE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED IDENTIFIABLE WOMEN. That’s a no-no. Worse, he targeted women who did NOTHING wrong ( on the contrary, they were honorable athletes ).
Hence the observed rule -— Being general/generic, tolerable, being specific, NOT ACCEPTABLE.
But then again the question goes -— would it be acceptable to call Anna Nicole Smith a “HO” ? ( Ann Coulter asked that question ). Maybe not, that would be speaking ill of the dead.
3) Minorities get more leeway in using racially insensitive terms than those in the majorities. I don’t need to even explain why.
4) When you hide behind the word — PARODY -— somehow, using racial ephithets or insulting words, become OK. Hence, rappers like Ludacris or EminEm can get away with it because they can always say that it’s ART and PARODY and we shouldn’t take them too seriously ( just as they themselves don’t take it seriously).
Understanding this unspoken “rules” of society goes a long way towards explaining why Imus got crucified while rappers and even Al Sharpton get away with their remarks.
i have been around alot of black people and they have said worse to their friends and people they don’t know. However being white I am not afforded that same use of the n word.
Very similar to the "liberal" thought process - arguments opposed to my viewpoint aren't even worthy of discussion.
Your assertion may be the way the PC police have forced things to be, but it's not "right" in the sense of right vs wrong.
Point of order.
We are not discussing different races.
We are discussing members of one race - HUMAN.
Ethnic background is NOT race. Don’t let it become that.