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MEAT
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"Whatever happened to the word wigger?"


  

          

I haven’t heard it in at least 15 years.

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hipsters
Oct 01st 2019
1
the distillation of culture pretty much killed it.
Oct 01st 2019
2
"distillation" ..... is THAT what it's being called now? ok....
Oct 01st 2019
3
it was just the first word that came to mind for me.
Oct 01st 2019
6
I think a combo of this and it not being PC
Oct 01st 2019
7
I've ALWAYS hated that term because of what it suggests.
Oct 01st 2019
4
Agreed 100%
Oct 01st 2019
8
Co-sign this. n/m
Oct 01st 2019
9
Same
Oct 01st 2019
10
ya growing up in the 90's people were quick to use it
Oct 01st 2019
11
So white folks aren’t niggers?
Oct 02nd 2019
13
I'm not sure I understand
Oct 02nd 2019
15
I don’t why it’s hard for you to understand.
Oct 02nd 2019
16
      You completely overlooked the historical racial aspect of the word...
Oct 02nd 2019
17
      And you’re overlooking the true definition of that word.
Oct 02nd 2019
19
           Ah right. I see where you're going with it.
Oct 02nd 2019
22
           RE: Ah right. I see where you're going with it.
Oct 02nd 2019
24
                You do know its a bastardization of the spanish/portuguese "negro" right...
Oct 02nd 2019
27
                     You do know that the Spanish/Portuguese meaning for black...
Oct 02nd 2019
29
                          Someone who doesn't know then from than is in here talking about words
Oct 02nd 2019
30
                               I already did that, you just didn’t get it.
Oct 02nd 2019
31
                                    No, you didn't.
Oct 02nd 2019
32
                                         Yes I did, but I can’t help you any further
Oct 02nd 2019
33
                                              No, you didn't.
Oct 02nd 2019
34
                                                   Yes I did dummy
Oct 15th 2019
49
           Nah
Oct 02nd 2019
23
           And what good will this do?
Oct 02nd 2019
25
                Oh yeah forgot about this
Oct 15th 2019
47
                     So the $1M question is...
Oct 15th 2019
50
                          Even if they were it's unnecessary to use that word
Oct 15th 2019
51
                               How so?
Oct 15th 2019
52
                                    All that just to say stingy ?
Oct 15th 2019
53
                                         Exactly
Oct 15th 2019
54
                                              Nah
Oct 16th 2019
62
           I'm not sure where you got that from...
Oct 02nd 2019
26
                You need to check the original definition of the word...
Oct 02nd 2019
28
                     ....
Oct 02nd 2019
36
      This is some textbook shit wp say when they use the word
Oct 02nd 2019
18
      RE: This is some textbook shit wp say when they use the word
Oct 02nd 2019
20
      Redneck connotes ignorance as well
Oct 04th 2019
41
           That is only by our acceptance though
Oct 15th 2019
45
nice to know your stupidity isn't confined to religion
Oct 03rd 2019
39
      The No. 1 dummy has decided to chime in!!!!
Oct 15th 2019
46
yep. that word was always bullshit for that exact reasoning
Oct 04th 2019
44
Hip hop became THE dominate form of music/pop culture
Oct 01st 2019
5
Horrible word
Oct 01st 2019
12
don't be hatin happened.
Oct 02nd 2019
14
Replaced by NILLA
Oct 02nd 2019
21
Robin Thicke happened to it lol
Oct 02nd 2019
35
Jesse Pinkman
Oct 02nd 2019
37
Jamie Kennedy
Oct 03rd 2019
38
who can really say it and why would they?
Oct 03rd 2019
40
Black people can't because "W," White people can't because of "igger"
Oct 04th 2019
43
Black people using "wigger" as a slur was like:
Oct 04th 2019
42
I thought it was something white people said to other white people
Oct 15th 2019
48
      Pretty much
Oct 15th 2019
55
      iono coming up i heard it a lot, from both white and black people
Oct 15th 2019
56
           This is fairly accurate.
Oct 15th 2019
57
      Was the evolution of ****** lover. Mostly white to white pejorative
Oct 16th 2019
59
           Huh?
Oct 16th 2019
60
           What ?
Oct 16th 2019
61
           I mean... ionno man
Oct 16th 2019
65
                Maybe Attilah meant non-whites other than blacks?
Oct 17th 2019
66
                     Oh.. most definitely.
Oct 17th 2019
67
           yeah that was one common usage, sure.
Oct 16th 2019
64
In the third season of Last Chance U, I think a fight broke out over it
Oct 16th 2019
58
One too many ruffnecks got stomped out after calling someone that
Oct 16th 2019
63

FLUIDJ
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1. "hipsters"
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"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

  

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BrooklynWHAT
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2. "the distillation of culture pretty much killed it."
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<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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3. ""distillation" ..... is THAT what it's being called now? ok.... "
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"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

  

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BrooklynWHAT
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6. "it was just the first word that came to mind for me."
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distillation, homogenization, etc.

<--- Big Baller World Order

  

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7. "I think a combo of this and it not being PC"
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I was just thinking about this because I was watching season 2 of The Wire where there was the group of white kids calling each other the n word and wearing durags and South Pole. Nick Sobotka calls one of them a wigger. It definitely seemed like snapshot in time.

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4. "I've ALWAYS hated that term because of what it suggests. "
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at the end of the day its really about calling black people niggers.

"oh you think you black? you acting black. you acting like a white nigger because this is how black people act and black people are the niggers"

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8. "Agreed 100%"
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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

  

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9. "Co-sign this. n/m"
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MEAT
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10. "Same"
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Only realizing I hadn’t heard it in forever when just now listening to an old stand up from a white comedian. “That’s a word I haven’t heard in a while”.

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11. "ya growing up in the 90's people were quick to use it"
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it always made me feel uncomfortable as fuck and highly disrespectful to black folks so i stayed away from it

  

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hip bopper
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13. "So white folks aren’t niggers?"
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>at the end of the day its really about calling black people
>niggers.
>
>"oh you think you black? you acting black. you acting like a
>white nigger because this is how black people act and black
>people are the niggers"

Given the original meaning of the word it fits them more than it would black people.

  

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15. "I'm not sure I understand "
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hip bopper
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16. "I don’t why it’s hard for you to understand."
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The word nigger means lack of intelligence; ignorant.

This does not exclude any ethnicity. If anyone is a nigger in the truest sense of the word, it would be white people. White people have continued to me remain ignorant and lack intelligence regarding black people and other ethnicities to this day.

  

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17. "You completely overlooked the historical racial aspect of the word..."
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Are you really trying to say that there's not a racial component to the word "nigger?"

  

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hip bopper
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19. "And you’re overlooking the true definition of that word."
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> Are you really trying to say that there's not a racial
>component to the word "nigger?"

What I am saying is that the nigger as originally intended was NOT meant for a specific ethnicity. That label was put put on black people, but that was not the real meaning. As I originally stated, it was a term used for ignorance and lack of intelligence. Who has been more deserving of that word than white folks? They were the ones that lacked the intelligence. They were the ones who were ignorant. Trust and believe there are several white folks that are niggers.

  

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22. "Ah right. I see where you're going with it. "
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I wanted to give you the benefit of doubt before I assumed anything.

I mean, I hear your opinion but its stated in a vacuum. The meaning of words and how we use words shifts over time. Language is a living thing. So, while you're not wrong about the definition of the word you've also completely trimmed off the rest of the meaning/associations

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hip bopper
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24. "RE: Ah right. I see where you're going with it. "
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>I wanted to give you the benefit of doubt before I assumed
>anything.
>
>I mean, I hear your opinion but its stated in a vacuum. The
>meaning of words and how we use words shifts over time.
>Language is a living thing. So, while you're not wrong about
>the definition of the word you've also completely trimmed off
>the rest of the meaning/associations

My main point (which is not opinion) is that blacks have allowed this to go on without confronting who the real niggers are. We have accepted whatever people have done to us. I have not trimmed off the rest of the meaning or association. So if I’m not wrong about the definition of the word, then I’m not wrong to whom that term really applies. True meanings change over time, but you will never get me to believe that nigger is solely meant for black people.

  

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27. "You do know its a bastardization of the spanish/portuguese "negro" right..."
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Because it doesn't seem like you do

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29. "You do know that the Spanish/Portuguese meaning for black..."
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is totally different then the different then the word nigger right?

Or maybe you don’t.

  

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30. "Someone who doesn't know then from than is in here talking about words"
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Wed Oct-02-19 05:11 PM by Hitokiri

  

          

yikes.
Please break down the etymology of the word "nigger" then.

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31. "I already did that, you just didn’t get it."
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32. "No, you didn't."
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An etymology looks something like this

idiot (n.)
early 14c., "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning;" also in Middle English "simple man, uneducated person, layman" (late 14c.), from Old French idiote "uneducated or ignorant person" (12c.), from Latin idiota "ordinary person, layman; outsider," in Late Latin "uneducated or ignorant person," from Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill" (opposed to writer, soldier, skilled workman), literally "private person" (as opposed to one taking part in public affairs), used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own" (see idiom).

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33. "Yes I did, but I can’t help you any further"
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34. "No, you didn't."
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You gave a "definition" that you heard somewhere.

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49. "Yes I did dummy"
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>You gave a "definition" that you heard somewhere.
>

It was a real definition that was in dictionaries up until they changed it.

  

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23. "Nah"
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Check out the Aziz Netflix special.

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25. "And what good will this do?"
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>
>Check out the Aziz Netflix special.

  

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47. "Oh yeah forgot about this"
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Aziz did a bit where talked about how it was a bad look, for a politician and others
who caused controversy, by using a word based on it's original definition, to use that word when they didn't it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ohio-senator-used-the-word-niggardly-to-denounce-his-colleagues-2012-3

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50. "So the $1M question is..."
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were they acting niggardly? This would include white folks since we are speaking about the Ohio Senate.

  

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51. "Even if they were it's unnecessary to use that word "
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to describe what they are doing.

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52. "How so?"
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53. "All that just to say stingy ?"
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Too much

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54. "Exactly"
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He probably should’ve used a few more unsavory terms to describe those in the Ohio Senate.

  

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62. "Nah"
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>He probably should’ve used a few more unsavory terms to
>describe those in the Ohio Senate.
>
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It's a distraction.

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26. "I'm not sure where you got that from..."
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Yeah, I'm fairly certain that "nigger" was derived from other languages (mostly European) & their word for "black."

I'm not sure where this idea came from that it was just a shot at ignorant people. Like someone else said, that's an excuse that I've heard white folks use when they throw it out at someone and get called out for it.

  

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28. "You need to check the original definition of the word..."
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Holla at me when you do. The only thing I’m certain about is that you don’t know the real meaning. Of course is was put on black people, but that was NOT the original meaning.

  

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36. "...."
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nigger#note-1

"When I'm on the mic, a nigga throw down his blunt just to hear what we say...up in this bitch..."-Baatin

  

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18. "This is some textbook shit wp say when they use the word"
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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20. "RE: This is some textbook shit wp say when they use the word"
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And this is what we say when we don’t grasp the true meaning of that word.

  

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41. "Redneck connotes ignorance as well"
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>The word nigger means lack of intelligence; ignorant.
>
>This does not exclude any ethnicity. If anyone is a nigger in
>the truest sense of the word, it would be white people. White
>people have continued to me remain ignorant and lack
>intelligence regarding black people and other ethnicities to
>this day.
>

But would the average person use nigger and redneck interchangeably?

No, because they're both racialized. Nigger connotes black ignorance (and often black, in general) while redneck connotes rural white ignorance.

So I get the attempt to de-racialize the word but I think it's a lost cause bc its inextricably been linked to black people by hundreds of years of use.

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45. "That is only by our acceptance though"
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Blacks in their cowardice let that term define who they were, when in reality we were never that.


>
>But would the average person use nigger and redneck
>interchangeably?
>
>No, because they're both racialized. Nigger connotes black
>ignorance (and often black, in general) while redneck connotes
>rural white ignorance.
>
>So I get the attempt to de-racialize the word but I think it's
>a lost cause bc its inextricably been linked to black people
>by hundreds of years of use.
>

  

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Cold Truth
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39. "nice to know your stupidity isn't confined to religion "
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It's no surprise to see you trotting out an argument from definition fallacy and sidestepping every bit of context and nuance in a discussion. It's alarming to see you doing that shit on this particular subject, but hey.... at least you're consistent, I suppose.

When white people get called out for calling a black person that word, they do exactly what you just did, in a poor attempt to intellectualize, and therefore justify, their use of the word as an epithet towards black people.

What it "really" means doesn't magically remove the historical context of the word. Leaning on what it "really" means is is to ignore the actual usage.

But yeah... great job showing that you're a colossal fuckwit across the board.

  

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hip bopper
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46. "The No. 1 dummy has decided to chime in!!!!"
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>It's no surprise to see you trotting out an argument from
>definition fallacy and sidestepping every bit of context and
>nuance in a discussion. It's alarming to see you doing that
>shit on this particular subject, but hey.... at least you're
>consistent, I suppose.
>

It’s no surprise that you remain utterly stupid without looking at the origin of things. It’s alarming on your behalf that you do no research and are blind and misguided about all things. Yet you make posts like you’re actually intelligent.



>When white people get called out for calling a black person
>that word, they do exactly what you just did, in a poor
>attempt to intellectualize, and therefore justify, their use
>of the word as an epithet towards black people.
>

So me saying what the word really meant versus people who who misuse the word for their benefit is the same? How dumb are you really? You are the typical person that they have in bondage to this day. Another dumb and blind individual.

  

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Dr Claw
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44. "yep. that word was always bullshit for that exact reasoning"
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5. "Hip hop became THE dominate form of music/pop culture"
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It's not really novel to see a young white person into/dressing/talking like a rapper these days (there's also a bunch of white rappers)

R.I.P. Loud But Wrong Guy
Dec 29th 2009 - Dec 17th 2017

  

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Vector
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12. "Horrible word"
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14. "don't be hatin happened. "
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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21. "Replaced by NILLA"
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

*Effasig*

  

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35. "Robin Thicke happened to it lol"
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♥ Inescapably Me ♥

"Love is never any better than the lover" Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)

  

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37. "Jesse Pinkman"
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38. "Jamie Kennedy "
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>I haven’t heard it in at least 15 years.

------------


Gone: My Discogs collection for The Roots:
http://www.discogs.com/user/tomhayes-roots/collection

  

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40. "who can really say it and why would they?"
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And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  

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43. "Black people can't because "W," White people can't because of "igger""
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So... Asians?

*points at any NFL team* "look at all those wiggers!"

  

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42. "Black people using "wigger" as a slur was like:"
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https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SnoopyPoshAsiantrumpetfish-small.gif

  

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48. "I thought it was something white people said to other white people"
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****************
TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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55. "Pretty much "
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56. "iono coming up i heard it a lot, from both white and black people"
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from white people it was just a blanket term for white kids who "acted black" such as listening to rap, speaking with a black affectation, dressing in hip-hop style or whatever combination of those types of things.

for black people it was the same but generally used for those who they didn't accept. it was rare to see a kid who comfortably hung out with black people described that way.

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  

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57. "This is fairly accurate. "
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Just didn't hear black folk say it as much as yts.

  

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59. "Was the evolution of ****** lover. Mostly white to white pejorative"
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But used by non whites who are also insecure about people exploring cultures they feel they shouldn't

______________________________________

Everything looks like Oprah kissing Harvey Weinstein these days

  

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60. "Huh? "
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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Lurkmode
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61. "What ?"
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Blacks used that ?

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Signature

  

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legsdiamond
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65. "I mean... ionno man"
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Only time I ever heard a black dude say that was when they were quoting what a white girl told them.

Yo bruh. She said her daddy called her a ...lover.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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Marbles
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66. "Maybe Attilah meant non-whites other than blacks? "
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>Only time I ever heard a black dude say that was when they
>were quoting what a white girl told them.
>
>Yo bruh. She said her daddy called her a ...lover.


I can imagine some Asians or Latinos using it against their own. I stress the word, "some."

Like you, I've never heard a black person use it as an attack on another brother/sister. That's part of what made it so nuts when Clayton Bigsby said it.

  

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67. "Oh.. most definitely. "
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

  

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64. "yeah that was one common usage, sure."
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And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  

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58. "In the third season of Last Chance U, I think a fight broke out over it"
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One of the opposing coaches (white) called JB that. The directors didn't make it plain, I guess for the potential racial/socioeconomic can of worms it would open...but they ran right up to the line.

Streets won't let me chill.

  

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63. "One too many ruffnecks got stomped out after calling someone that"
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*ba-dum-bump!!!*

  

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