The NEW and IMPROVED utterly fucking pointless thread

[SyberBitch]

I am not angry. This is cyberspace.

Questions:
x How does one become "overlysensitive" about the N-Bomb?
x What's the APPROPRIATE level of anger or hurt that an average Black person should feel about this?

I would love to hear your insights on this topic.

Ok, since you asked...

x How does one become "overlysensitive" about the N-Bomb?

Well, I specified that 'given the situation', your level of anger seemed out of proportion with what was said. The 'situation' being, a mock forum where such things should be expected once in a while as an easy target for mocking and possibly hurting a person's feelings.

However, you said you're not angry about it.

x What's the APPROPRIATE level of anger or hurt that an average Black person should feel about this?

Honestly? The healthiest, most appropriate level of anger or hurt about it, would be 'Meh, fuck you. What, I'm supposed be 'ashamed' because my skin is darker than yours? Because my heritage more recently goes back to a primarily dark-skinned continent than yours does? Get over it because I did a long time ago. I'm not ashamed of who I am'.

Now, even in light of that, I plan to teach my son that the 'n-word' is one that he is to never use against someone (regardless of their heritage), because it's a hate word and can cause people more pain than most other 'curse' words, but the expression of bigotry itself would be considerably decreased if the person the bigotry was aimed at, did not let it affect them. Obviously, that does not hold true for more concrete forms of bigotry and racism, such as refusing to hire a person because of (race/sex/religion/etc) or beating a person or whatever.