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I like “bffr” (be fucking for real). I have often had need of it
I would have guessed “bro for fucking real” or something like that … But whatever I came up with would have just been a guess.
Best Friends Forever, Racist.
Yikes… So they followed someone they thought was racist? I get the feeling they, too, might be racist.
They followed someone they thought was “just racist”
Well I mean in America, so “not actively murdering people” can, for some, be enough.
What is a “mutual?”
You both follow one another. If they just followed but weren’t followed back, then they aren’t mutuals.
How does saying “the N word” mean someone is “not white”?
But yes, nice if real.
The N word is used by 3 demographics - black people, racist people and 12 year olds playing COD
Only black people use that word? Why?
Not really to your comment, but adjacent to it.
Here’s something that most people need to know: not all black people feel the same way about that word.
Some called me an “N-word” in a positive way and were okay with me using it around them (I wasn’t). Some only want other black people to use it. Some don’t want anybody saying it.
A lot of white men with a lot of black friends very often make one crucial error:
That N-pass is only good for your friends.
As is any reclaimed slur when you’re not part of said social minority. (e.g. removed, dyke…)
Ninja edit: Lmao I’m getting censored by either the lemmy instance or my 3rd party app (Jerboa). For reference it was f*****
Lemmy world auto-remove certain slurs
They’re not very extensive though ^^
From Wiktionary (I’m not posting a link, look it up yourself):
There have been efforts by those of African descent to reclaim the word (especially in the form n___a), but these efforts are controversial and some people do not believe it is able to be reclaimed due to its fraught history and continued derogatory usage. Regardless, usage by non-blacks is still almost invariably considered highly racist and offensive.
That doesn’t seem to be a reclaiming of a word (since it wasn’t previously used in a good way), but a reuse of a historically insulting term. I can respect the effort, but I still cringe when hearing it used as an amiable word. I don’t know if that makes me racist because I have trouble moving past it being a slur and distasteful. Maybe it’s still too new and it’s going to take a few generations to become more normalized.
