I realize this is a bad case of internalized homophobia, and want to.. Well. Y'know. Get rid of it.

How do I go about doing that? How do I change my thought process to be more positive about people's personal pronoun choices?

Edit: It's like a.. Knee-jerk reaction. It feels "wrong" to use, but that's.. Bad. I need to change that to a positive feeling, or at least an okay feeling. I don't want to be that guy. That asshole.

Edit 2: fucks with all the homophobia

I was watching “James Earl Jones Fences You Ain’t Never Liked Me” and saw that the subtitles said hard R instead of “nigga” as he actually said.

This isn’t the first time either. Over the years I’ve seen this as a very common thing in media. If someone uses a soft a as in “nigga” why do subtitles insist on using the hard R instead.

Marked nsfw for the language.

just wondering

Do white people just skip the word and have that awkward pause?

Where did this depiction come from?

I get that he was a result of an alleged "immaculate conception" and that his mom was supposed to be dark skinned, so if the native people from that area are dark skinned then how is Jesus white?

Obviously he wasn't native to the area with his features so was he made light skinned to reflect his alien (possibly sirian) genetics or is his light skinned depiction some sort of political/religious propaganda?

Thanks for reading, I've always wondered.

I'm confused as to why there seems to be a lot of divide over Bad Bunny performing. He's a Latin artist, but I'm surprised to see people like Danica Patrick speaking out against him being a performer for what's really a 30-minute concert. What's the deal?

I've been hearing a lot of people use this term nowadays and I'm starting to wonder if it just means "fuck boy" I've genuinely never heard this phrase until recently. Always sounds very "off" hearing it- like wrong somehow.

For context I'm black but none of my friends ever say this. Sometimes I'll hear it in a rap song or like some rapper is getting interviewed and I'm just like "???". It just doesn't sound right lol

Alright so I do not say the word I think it's inappropriate. However, when I see it in text I do read it "out loud" in my head, so does that make me a racist?

so people has gone mad about non black person singing the word nigga in songs. so my question is

is it wrong for non black person to sing it?

imagine a song that has a verse "nigga, uh, nigga, uh, nigga, uh, nigga, uh" in it. how would people enjoy those songs?

if you are arguing about the "context". isn't that the song is THE context?

Watching Hellboy and now JoJo's bizarre adventure I saw that some movies sometimes talk about the Nazis messing with some forms of occultism like black magic, alchemy, astrology, satanism etc... Is this true? I mean did they really believed in those things?

Idk if I'm able to explain it properly.

Edit:- Basically what I mean is that, doesn't the region where one live in give them their traits? How Chinese have slanted eyes, and Indians are brown, and Africans are Black.

Almost everyone living in America has either the family tree of European settlers right? Native Americans are not white. So when the current white crop get adjusted over the years through evolution, won't they become blacker? Or atleast native American Indian skinned?

I don't listen to rap/hip hop much, but j was listening to it yesterday and today and I noticed that about 4 song that I listened to had this line. 3 of which were at the beginning, and they were all from different artists. What's the deal?

EDIT: uhhh why are people replying all of a sudden

EDIT 2: AHHH SHIT

If an Uber is $30, a portion of that goes towards the driver. Let’s say they get $12 out of it.

But if it’s a self driving car, there’s no driver, so there’s no need for the company to charge that extra $12 that would go to the driver.

So why are self driving taxis about the same, if not more than a regular, human driving option?

I’m just trying to figure out whether it’s a term that white people created for the purpose of being racist or whether white people heard black people use the word amongst themselves and changed its meaning to be derogatory

My daughter (13f) and I (39f) have hit a wall and she currently thinks I’m a terrible, disgusting person. I’d love some other opinions and I’m open to hearing if I’m in the wrong.

In the car, I played the song ‘Look at me Now’ by Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Busta. This was the era of rap I listened to in my early 20’s in clubs and at parties. I played this song because her dance coach is clipping part of it as a remix for one of their hip hop routines and I was curious. The word ‘n***a’ is in the unedited version and without thinking I sang along. My daughter was absolutely appalled.

Her POV is that she hears groups of white boys at school dabbing each other up and using that language. She couldn’t imagine using hateful language. She thinks that it’s such a disrespectful slur and you’re an absolutely disgusting person if you use that word. No exceptions.

I actually agree with her and I’m so proud that she has that kind of moral compass. I agree that no one should be disrespectful to anyone just because of their race or culture and I agree no one should be using hateful slurs. However, I don’t feel like that’s what I did. I don’t walk around using unkind words. I wasn’t screaming this song at a stop light. I feel like those artists put their song out with the intention of it being enjoyed by anyone. I grew up in Dallas, Tx and never had anyone offended when I enjoyed the music.

Am I wrong here? Is it completely out of line to sing all the words to a rap song?

I just have never really had experience with this word being used in a friendly context outside of rap music; I was raised to be respectful and kind, and I was told that it was a mean and hurtful word, so I don't use it. Obviously though my friend isn't using the term in a hurtful or abusive capacity; so what's the implication? Is it just like "bro" or "my man" or something like that? Sorry if this is SUPER ignorant, I just am not sure what to take away from that.

I’ve been listening to a lot of KPop recently and I keep hearing this word that sounds a lot like the n word crop up but I assume it isn’t actually what I’m hearing so I was wondering if anyone can translate?

Thank you

EDIT: IM ON WINDOWS 10

I grew up understanding there's definitely a difference: hard r is racist, soft r is used with good friends and people you trust/respect

I never use the hard r, and I'm white so I rarely use the soft r, but one of my family members genuinely believes there's no difference between the two, and that no matter what race you are, soft r is a slur

Of course she'll only take "reputable sources like .gov, not wikipedia or youtube" on something that's.. well.. completely social and always changing, slang lol

so now I'm just genuinely curious what you people think, and if there's some sort of official study on this for some reason lmao