pretty much.

i mean the hiphop culture has been doing that with the N word for decades now

drive out racism by removing the stigmas.

its not working

Exactly.

It's not working because the activists are refusing to let anyone else use the word

Even when singing Rap.

i remember when Richard Prior retired the N word

N word would be hardest to change.

I mean, “Indian” for natives is almost considered a slur but most actual natives don’t really care

I bet the LGBT community would get the picture of what I said.

Actually, we do need a new term for native americans.

"Indian" is too easily confused with people from India

it's sad that this is considered taboo now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_PuDmohiA0

Disassociate Gay from LGBT community, turn it into a word that means Happy.

We have injun

savages

See, I always thought that was just slang.

Us native Americans could embrace the word. Making a simple word that represents our race.

Instead of a racial slur.

Savages doesn't work. Too broad and well defined already. Not to mention it's going with something needlessly offensive

Native American is too clunky, Indian and Injun works well

"Natives"?

Disassociate it from "Savage"

well in that Shaun of the Dead clip, it is just slang, a part of culture

Natives is too broad

It is kind of annoying typing "Native American"

Constantly.

A big part of the issue is that you would need something that's 2-3 syllables.

Agreed.

you could always type out American Indian, lol

Native American is 16 letters and 6 syllables

It matters.

Hence why no one says “African-Americans”

Way too long.

well most black people dont like being called AA and prefer to be called black

On the flip side, we could decide not to separate them out at all, in which having a word would be irrelevant.

Just have a push to disassociate racial slurs from their meaning, then give them new meanings which would eliminate the offensive usages of the words.

American Indian is even worse than Native American because it’s confusing and easy to mix up with Indian-American

Amind?

many Native Americans call themselves American Indian actually

Just shorten American Indian?

Naticans.

>.>

i like that

Amind or Naticans

but Amind is a terrible thing to waste..

My dad’s an Okie with a bit of Cherokee and just goes with Indian

Naticans doesn't roll out right, IMO. Too many dissonant consonants.

I rather just co-op the racial slurs.

Turn them into good things.

Sounds like Vatican.

i like Naticans, sounds like a baseball team

It does two things.

It destroys racial slurs, by making them into good things. But also gives us new terms that could be used to describe us.

For foreign individuals.

and takes away all the power from the racists

There isn't always a racial equivalent word for foreign nations.

the solution to hate speech is more speech

I mean wasnt that what nigga was supposed to be?

Now they get offended if the guy saying it isnt black.

So the issue is that if that's the strategy, you can't enforce taboo.

It is a term of endearment for blacks, but racial slur if another race says it.

well it was fine for white people to say it for a short time because of hiphop culture but then SJW culture happened

It turned into an way to have double meaning, double speak, to claim victim mentality.

Because when you enforce taboo or use it asymmetrically, it remains a slur.

i mean look at that scene in Shaun of the Dead, that came out in 2004

Because someone based an assumption on race

If you see a white guy say wassup my nigga

it's because these SJW types aren't actually interested in making things better the just want to control people

vs a black guy saying the exact same shit

Best way to take down racial terms, is to take the sting out of them and change the word itself. The racists wouldn't have any other terms anymore.

They would have a hard time using that word because people would associate it with something else.

Yeah, basically.

They would have to create new terms and those words wouldn't have any sting behind them.

Because they probably wouldn't catch on in this day and age.

sheeit i still use the N word around some of my friends, not with the hard R obvs

You know.. that reminds me

And this gets back to how racism can be a two way street. Discrimination in any direction, positive or negative, breeds racism in response.

Like the word moron

Which used to be a medical term

So they made retarded

Linguistics is weird.

Because people used moron as an insult

Then guess what

And now retard is an insult.

People started using retarded as a result.

but i grew up when gangsta rap was being born so its kind of a part of my culture even though i am a whitey

WE should definitely start co-oping these words.

@Joey4Track (POLEMIC HEART) I call my friends racial slurs but not ones that apply to them (ex. calling my token black friend a cracker).

So they made shit like mentally disabled

If I can get others of my race, others of other races to co-op these words.

Turn them into positive, we could make headway I think.

Which words?

I call my friends faggots all the time

Thoguh I suspect one actually is gay

my school was 85% black so everyone said nigga and it was no thing

back in the 90's