[Osborn F Enready]

Scribbler said: Sorry, I suppose I'm just stupid then, because I happen to believe words CAN be used as weapons. You can indeed hurt the unarmed and innocent with words. You can't hurt me, for instance, but you can hurt others and that is almost ALWAYS unnecessary.

I say:
While I agree with every word, is it "necessary" to have LAWS? Should it be a school policy? Individual or city wide? State wide? Nation wide? Should any race that says any form of it be punished? How strict of a punishment? By who?

Scribbler said: Not as seriously as a baseball bat to the head, but words, properly used can hurt. So why the defense of such words? You have the right to say them and I have the right to be angered by them. THAT is freedom.

I say:
And what "should" be the result of that anger? Violence? Debate? Silence? Laws?

Scribbler said: You sound like you advocate one side only, where you can say whatever you want and everyone else must just put up with it. The real world ain't quite like that and if you want proof, just go into a bar with a lot of large motorcycles parked outside and say everyone at the bar's mother is a whore.

I say:
Whore is another word entirely. It spans all races, all ethnicities, all genders equally. Nigga and Nigger are used toward one racial group, several ethnicities, based on skin color.

My point is, as I think is also Soccer's point, that (blacks, African Americans, Colored Americans, whichever is PC this week) are using the word at all ages, in a "brotherly, or friendly" fashion. They accept it from one another, but they are enraged when a "white" person says it. Is it the same reaction if an Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Indian, Arab, Spanish, Puerto Rican says it?

Scribbler said: But give me your address first, because I'll need to know where to send the flowers.

I say:
That's funny. LOL

I am not defending or demonizing the word(s). I am saying it is clearly illogical to me to accept one form, and not the other.

Much like me and my brothers position of "referee's" in sports. I don't care what they call "in", or what they call "out", as long as they call it the same way every damn time!

I would not be hurt if "nigger" and "nigga" became viewed as "curse words" and socially unacceptable, though I do think to make national and state laws about them is silly. Either way, it would have to be universal, and apply to all citizens regardless of race.

I personally think there is too much reverse racism in law as it is, but that is another issue or thread I think.

That is my opinion anyway.