Answering Questions: Nigger/Nigga Double Standard?

The second video in the answering questions series, where I take a time to address the second most common question I've received in response to my video "Racism can be Fun?"

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[saltheadd]

A word is only as powerful as you make it to be.

[Razor6731]

you...you...DOUBLE NIGGER

[ActaNonVerba71]

There is and SHOULD BE a double standard. When someone says something or does something, the perceived intent means everything. EXAMPLE 1 You see a middle aged man putting a semi conscious teenage girl in his car, it sets off alarm bells. It might be a relative or someone trying to help. It might not be. What's his intent?. EXAMPLE 2 You see a middle aged man in a uniform putting a semi conscious teenage girl in the back of an ambulance. No alarm bells regarding his intent. Duh.

[Goal10ding]

Thank you for the video, it was very informative. I am an ethnic European American who is as white as paper, but to the shallow eye, I think I could be mistaken for a predecessor of a slaver. To use the word (which I would never do) would probably result in bruises or broken bones. I would like to stoke the fire on this argument again to ask you if you had any insight into why African Americans feel comfortable using the word to identify each other, while it is a shock factor if a white says it?

[jacklazzell]

when i was young, we referred to blacks as niggers. there was nigger smith, nigger nelson, and so on. i never caught any flack over it. they simply didn't seem to be offended. what they called me, i didn't give a damn. i just assumed that the word was a derivitive of the word 'niger' or nigeria in africa. but as i grew older and wiser, i was faced with the harsh reality that a nigger can be any color. i see that it's considered an insult. but some people need to be insulted.

[TR5T]

What about Polak, Paddy, Kike, Daigo, Spick, etc. etc. "Words are only as powerful as you make them" Amen

[ccipollini1984]

In my hiumble opinion, adding an "a" instead of an "er" dosen't pacify a word at all. Honestly, it's an ugly word, but still aword nonetheless. The only person who can let it have such power over you is you.

[moleslayer5643]

Whenever someone goes off about how offensive it is and I can't possibly understand ho it feels to be discriminated against, I give them this: Were they alive at the time the word was accompanied by whips, torches, firehoses, attack dogs, and hangings. Usually, the answer is no. So the big question is, HOW THE FUCK DO THEY UNDERSTAND. Everyone has their own cross to bear. If you think you or your group are the lone victims, you are DELUDED.

[Runescythe9852]

If only more people could see this video. This is actually a smart and informative evaluation of the word. I see those two words and see them as one in the same, yet people try to rationalize it by using urban interpretations of the word, but its a hurtful and degrading slang because slavery has been over for over 150 years. Yet still, people act as if its still fresh in their minds. Racism is still ongoing because of controversies like this. All I can say is the only way to stop is not say it

[InnocenceExperience]

On a related topic, I actually do think African American, Asian American and European American is better than black, white etc. I don't want to seem ultra pc, but it has actually always struck me that black people aren't really black, white people aren't really white and it just seems to objectify us and conceptualise us as fundamentally opposite. Really we have different degrees of skin pigmentation and there are other physical continuums on which we are closer together.

[massage33316]

Great message!

[ricosuavable]

YOU...YOU...TOU DOUBLE NIGGAR!!!