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Is it wrong if I, a white person, ask a black person to not say the n word to me?
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Anonymous 17h

i think it’s wrong to dictate how a black person would use a reclaimed slur as a white person. black people never for this so i feel like as white people we need to sit in whatever discomfort that their reclamation produces

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Anonymous 13h

I think it’s okay to tell them that makes you uncomfortable. You have every right to ask them to stop.

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Anonymous 17h

well as a black person i don’t say the n word around white people im friends with/know in general because it makes me feel uncomfortable 😭 so i don’t think its wrong from the opposite perspective. for example, its not wrong to tell someone to stop talking about a traumatic event they’ve had even if you never experienced something like that

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 16h

this is so eloquently put tbh

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13h

I think if it makes her uncomfortable, she’s allowed to ask them to stop. I don’t think it’s right to just sit around in discomfort 😭

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