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[–] Gradually_Adjusting 145 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like "bffr" (be fucking for real). I have often had need of it

[–] toynbee 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would have guessed "bro for fucking real" or something like that ... But whatever I came up with would have just been a guess.

[–] Valmond 66 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Best Friends Forever, Racist.

[–] toynbee 9 points 3 days ago

I forgot I had made this post and was ... Thoroughly confused by this response.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Put the comma in the middle

[–] shneancy 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i thought it was "best friend/boyfriend for real"

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[–] Eheran 94 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

How does saying "the N word" mean someone is "not white"?

But yes, nice if real.

[–] darthsid 170 points 3 days ago (29 children)

The N word is used by 3 demographics - black people, racist people and 12 year olds playing COD

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] darthsid 9 points 3 days ago

When she said maddafacka I burst into laughter

[–] Mango 14 points 3 days ago

How dare you put black people in the same category with racists and my wife's boyfriend!?

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[–] xantoxis 13 points 3 days ago

It's less that "white people never say the N word" and more that you absolutely should not be following someone if you believe they're as racist as that.

[–] FireTower 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)
  1. You aren't allowed to / really shouldn't be say it if you aren't Black.

  2. Presumably under this notion someone anonymous who says it should be abiding that cultural norm.

  3. Meaning that if an anonymous person is saying it and you expect them to abide that norm it'd be reasonable to assume they're Black.

[–] Mango 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm really still in the camp that there are no bad words. Only bad intent. That said, I've got no use for the word. It's practically a worthless word.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tbh I still think that I shouldn't have to censor myself if I want to sing any song by any black person since about 1985, (nor just avoid singing any song from the most popular black music of the past 40yr because "it was made by black people so I can't sing it,") "black music is only for 'the blacks' you can't enjoy other cultures!" sounds almost more racist to me than me singing the real words instead of:

Bitch you thirsty please grab a sprite, my crips lurking don't die tonight, I just wanna dance with you baby, man down down the ave it gets shady, take a neighbor's mind off that we can dip fuck in the whip slide right back in the function one wrong word start bustin' put that on my yankee's hat, I'm a gangsta crip, fuck gangsta rap, where the ladies at where da hoes where da bitches? Every real neighbor know tha difference, bandana brown like the dope daddy shootin' in the kitchen, real norf side neighbor never went to wilson or cabrillo, cocaine color of a creole, T-scrap moving for the d-lo and he know...

I mean, I do it, so don't jump down my throat or anything because I'm already complying with the demand at large, but I disagree that it's a racist practice to sing the words as written by the author who wrote them simply because I'm of another race. (Unless it's like a David Allen Coe song, c'mon ykwim, rap music and stuff.)

Other than that I'll agree it's an entirely useless word, even if nobody cared I'd only say it then, when singing a song by a black artist I like. It's kinda hard sometimes to switch the word too, you try and sing LaLa by Tity Boi ft Busta replacing all the words and tell me you didn't fuck up when Busta said "smoking til a neighbor look a little shitty boy." Lol.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure quoting "can a nigga borrow a french fry", "Now how is a nigga gonna borrow a fry" in almost any format that isn't your workplace is fine. Same thing with singing songs.

Just don't be fucking scummy when using words as slurs. That's all people gotta do. But people keep using it as a slur, so it's just easier to not say it. Yes, it would be nice if it was magically yeeted out of the cultural lexicon. Words only have the power we give to them.

I'm personally not a fan of saying N-word, N****, or anything like that anyway. You're literally just making other people say 'nigga' in their head but absolving yourself of the guilt of saying it through silly pc terms.

E: Short of being a newscaster and quoting a hate crime, it's about the only time 'N-word' should be used now anyway lol. Just use any other number of words to talk to your friends or enemies in a loving or hating manner. Taking words back is fine and all so they have less power over people. But when you take it back, but still make it have power, then it's kinda fucking pointless since you're perpetuating it's stereotypical use still lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Depends on who you ask, some people are ok with it, like us, but some people will tell everyone in your friend group that you're a racist because of it, or even use physical violence in retaliation in some cases (or stuff like that).

I agree though with everything else!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yikes... So they followed someone they thought was racist? I get the feeling they, too, might be racist.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They followed someone they thought was "just racist"

[–] Etterra 10 points 3 days ago

Well I mean in America, so "not actively murdering people" can, for some, be enough.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] RebekahWSD 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You both follow one another. If they just followed but weren't followed back, then they aren't mutuals.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Ahh. Learned something! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Average twitter conversation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Double standards.

[–] ivanafterall 8 points 3 days ago

Shades of Clayton Bigsby.

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