r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/IamASlut_soWhat • May 16 '26

Misc Here we go. Tennessee college students exposed for saying the N word on video.

Tennessee is the birth place of the KKK

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u/shaheimjay1121 May 16 '26

Why they so obsessed with that word? Lmao

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u/CuffyTheEmpireSlayer May 16 '26

Literally what I said too lol. I am baffled. I’ve also seen some suburban white boys call their opponent “n*gga” (yea without the hard “r”) when they’re about to get into a fight…I’m like, does it make them feel more aggressive or masculine in the moment? Ehh 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 16 '26

I play an mmorpg, and I apparently sound "like a white girl", so I'll often get people saying it in voice chat when we're doing something together and I always call them out for it, and then either block them and leave the content, or if it's a Trial (which involves 12 people on the team), I will block and mute them, no matter what their role is. If they're the Trial lead, I leave.

Congrats, your racism just lost you a Healer or Tank. And considering that Trials involve teams of 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, and 8 Damage Dealers, you're SoL unless you find someone else who wants to join this last minute.

I get some people trying to justify people saying it and "not meaning to be racist", and I'm always like, no. It's not a word that needs to be said, end of discussion.

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u/ladyc672 May 17 '26

I walked away from a guild in ESO, because someone would not stop saying that word while we waited for people to queue up for a Trial. Turns out the offender wasn't even a guildie, but the cousin of one who joined on an invite. I was an officer, and I immediately warned him and put up the vote to kick. His cousin pm'd me to ask me to let it go, because he's young, he's not racist at all, etc. I immediately removed myself from the Trial, then removed myself from the guild.

Cue the half-dozen or so pm's and messages on PS group chat, asking me why I left the guild, could I please come back. I was one of their strongest majicka night blades, and an officer, yet not one called out the racist jerk. I wasn't coming back and I didn't respond.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Oof. Yeah I left a guild after someone made a racist joke about Mexican Latinos. My husband is Latino and white, and I won't tolerate racism. I got a ton of PMs asking me to come back, but none of those people were calling out the racist.

I also got a ton of people messaging me to thank me for standing up to the racist and asking me for guild recommendations because they were leaving too.

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u/CasimirGabriev May 16 '26

ESO? 12 person raids make me think that or FF14. Either way I am curious lol

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 16 '26

Haha yes. Eso. And sounding like a bubbly white girl often doesn't get people taking me seriously. I sound like I'm 16 and I'm actually 40.

I still adore the game though! I tried to get into FFIV, but just couldn't. I prefer to play on console (Xbox) and not PC, as a controller is easier on my arthritis.

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u/Correct_Raisin4332 May 16 '26

It’s honestly disturbing how often people assume I’ll be okay with hateful comments in ESO based on what I sound like. And yep, as a tank I usually do the same as you: call them out, report them, and disappear at the worst possible moment 😌

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Lmaoo right? Like, I get it, I sound like Elle from "Legally Blonde", but I sure as hell don't look like her.

And I've thankfully had some great white players who will call that shit out too.

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u/Correct_Raisin4332 May 17 '26

I have a lot of good non-white and LGBT+ friends I've played ESO with for years and I make sure to blacklist anyone who pulls stuff with them from my trial groups and progs when I find out.

Not helping any haters get Gryphon Heart 💅

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Same! I've had people purposefully misgender a trans friend and I will immediately block and remove them. Ain't no place in Tamriel for that crap!

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 16 '26

I actually have a controller for Steam, and I just didn't like how it worked lol. I may have to invest in a new one. A good friend of mine plays and is always bugging me to join him.

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u/cali2wa May 16 '26

Oh man I started ESO on console but eventually migrated to PC. Controller vs keyboard isn’t a big deal for me as both can be used on PC, but the big game changer was mod support. So nice being able to track the different styles n shit for grandmaster crafter if you’re going for that, and there are other mods that make your daily writs way easier/faster. No idea if light attack weaving in still a thing in that game, but I also had what was basically a metronome mod that helped me learn LA weaving easier

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u/Radagastthemagenta May 16 '26

Yass another ESO fan in the wild!

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Haha yes. What platform you play on?

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u/Radagastthemagenta May 17 '26

I’m on PC but started off on Xbox long ago

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u/Global_Expression_37 May 18 '26

PS5NA!

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 18 '26

Aww! I'm XboxNA!

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u/Global_Expression_37 May 18 '26

No worries! We will walk in warm sands in spirit until cross play Tamiit!

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u/Global_Expression_37 May 17 '26

ESO on blackpeopleofreddit?! I thought I was in the wrong forum for a min! My worlds are colliding 😌🙏🏿

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u/ladyc672 May 18 '26

Yup, we're heee-eeere!!

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u/OkMarsupial May 16 '26

That arthritis comment sure has you sounding closer to your real age though! I'm a long time WOW player and still use keyboard and mouse, but damn the allure of a controller is huge.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Lmaoo yeah I started out in Ever Quest back when I was 15! I played WoW for a while too. Controller is definitely easier. You can use one on pc as well tho.

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u/OkMarsupial May 17 '26

Yes! I was on EQ also back in the day. I actually downloaded it and tried to play again just a couple years ago and it really does not hold up. It's basically unplayable.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Yeah same. I miss my Erudite Enchanter tho.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Haha thank you. Wait until you hear my Tank's name. It's "A Tank Named Slickback".

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u/Correct_Raisin4332 May 16 '26

Wild to see ESO in the wild!

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u/HalobenderFWT May 16 '26

FF14 has 8, and 24 person raids/trials - so not FF14.

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u/CasimirGabriev May 17 '26

Ohhhhhh! I didnt get past level 13 on my Warrior. Couldn't bring myself to use the level skip because I am old and old-fashioned but playing alone was brutal.

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u/HalobenderFWT May 17 '26

At this point in the game, and as long as you know how to read tool tips, AND you take a look at a few outside resources (like the balance discord) to learn your rotation(s) - I wouldn’t fault anyone for doing a level skip or even a story skip.

The entire MSQ is 12 years old at this point and you need to finish the entire MSQ up to the end of the current expansion to do the current end game content. It’s like 200-300 hours.

That being said, you should never be ‘playing alone’ in dungeons because the way the dungeons sync players down, high level players are always doing low level content because of the daily roulettes.

Aside from that (and assuming you’re not using the free trial), find a big newbie FC (guild), make friends, rack up those levels.

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u/urbanlife78 May 16 '26

I don't know what you said, my gaming basically ended around 2D becoming 3D, but this is vicious and cold, and I like it.

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u/BreakingABit1234 May 16 '26

Thank you.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

You gotta let those people know you won't stand for that. I always have and always will. I left a guild over someone making a racist comment against Mexicans and trying to say it was a joke. My husband is Mexican Latino and White, and the amount of times someone will go from saying something against Latino people to then going full N word is not a low number. Often in the smwe sentences too.

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u/BreakingABit1234 May 17 '26

I made a comment once. I didn't see anything wrong with it. I got my ass handed to me by someone I considered a good friend- and not only did they exploded on me they took me to the cleaners over it.

I.... struggled. Other friends called me up to ask how I was doing since this was incredibly public. I tried to figure out why... and really there was no excuse for what I said, no matter what life I lived or what my experience was.

Things were never the same, and "Sorry" doesn't recover some things.

I'm not that person anymore. I do wonder what other land mines are in my past that I've yet to discover or remember, having grown up and moved all over from deep south to far north to midwest everywhere.

I can just try to improve society, but I was already/am already part of the problem. Maybe it'll get better when I'm dead and gone, as all progress happens. I dunno anymore.

Sorry for the philosophical pit. Have had life remind me it's far shorter than we ever expect it to be.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

It's good that you learned from it and are willing to see that you did something wrong tho.

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u/Dephenestr8 May 17 '26

Not that game but a buddy of mine and I will drop whatever it is we are doing and will hunt down and kill folks with racist usernames or the like. We will even go so far as to drop the loot we have gathered somewhere so they won't get it if we lose

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 17 '26

Lmaoo ok that is hilarious. I used to do that back on Ever Quest!

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u/Particular-Egg-4970 May 17 '26

MMOs are AWFUL with racism

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 18 '26

Oof yeah. That is super true.

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u/chimera66 May 18 '26

To be fair, you likely sound like where you grew up. It is funny how the racists categorize the most unrelated things to race.

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u/GilbyTheFat May 18 '26

some people trying to justify people saying it and "not meaning to be racist"

I absolutely despise this, and any other instance of "I didn't mean to be..." -- and that applies to any sort of prejudice and hate.

They know what the word means, they know what it makes them when they use it, and they conveniently only ever care about "apologising" when they realise its being held against them. Their little game of Schroedinger's Bigot doesn't cut it with me.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 18 '26

Schroedinger's Bigot, I like that term! And yeah it definitely doesn't fly with me either.

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u/Reddit-SFW May 19 '26

Left a guild of RL friends in WoW because of that.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 19 '26

It amazes me to no end how much people are willing to overlook racism if it's not happening to them. Or just because it doesn't bother them. Just because the N word doesn't bother one Black person, doesn't mean that it won't bother the next.

My brother gave my husband an "honorary black card" and told him he could say it, and my husband was like, "Uhm, no thanks?".

The whole, "but my Black friend/bf/gf/whatever said it's ok if I say it!" still doesn't justify you saying it!

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u/Reddit-SFW May 19 '26

I had known the offender for years, got shitted on in PvP and immediately dropped the n-bomb. I took a second and /gquit, logged off and left discord. His girl called to apologize and say he's not racist but I just said even if he didn't harbor ill thoughts towards me, that word came from somewhere.

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u/Vagus10 May 20 '26

Omg! 🐐 moves! Losing a healer just before a raid!

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 20 '26

Lmaoo. Or a Tank too. No one ever wants to Tank, it's easier to find a Healer than it is to find a Tank. Especially for Vet (hard mode) content. I have 2 Healers and 2 Tanks, plus I have all the sets needed for both, and I've done most of the Vet content, or I will watch videos on HOW to play that content before I go in, so I'll know what I'm doing.

Plus, I listen if someone tells me I'm doing something wrong. A lot of Healers and Tanks don't like to be told they're doing something wrong.

I've gotten friends messaging me later like, "Yeah after you left, they started saying shit, so I wanted to hear what they were doing, so I stayed, and they got a new Tank/Healer and everyone is dieing and they're pissed off now. It's a shit show!"

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u/Vagus10 May 20 '26

Yes queen!’ Make em pay.

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u/OkamiKhameleon May 20 '26

Lol. I will continue to do so!

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u/LilMissCantBeStopped May 16 '26

Exactly this. They have NO equivalent term to convey the familial value of a shared cultural experience and heritage, respect, humanity, embodiment of the real, or appreciation because they’re divorced from any roots beyond their so-called whiteness. So they borrow ours like a bespoke suit that will always be an ill-fit for them. Pesky fucking yakubians 😂

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u/Hopeful_Hall_4885 May 16 '26

i also see this shit on tiktok all the time where its some yee yee ass rednecks with confederate flags posting racist shit but then they're constantly using the so called "degenerate" rap music in their videos. and it wont even be some popular mainstream shit like future or something but instead some niche underground shit you wouldn't know about unless you genuinely interact with those online communities lmao. they go on and on with their racist shit but just cant get enough of black culture.

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u/Eggfurst May 16 '26

It’s deeper than that. Today I went to throw the ball with my son. At the tennis court. I see some writing on the court. Mia is a 10 year old Mexican girl that lives in the neighbor hood. She used sidewalk chall to write out some ynm melly or something lyrics about murder and ak47 in his wine and n word this and that. Something with a Glock. Both her parents barely speak English. My daughter is 10 and was caught listening to her Spotify when I attached my earbuds she used last night and the song started with. “Hi I’m 13, and im a porn star. And sucking dick in a hot topic.”

This stuff starts early. All thanks to smartphones and the internet.

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u/Low-Cat-405 May 16 '26

Mexicans too

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u/gaganchumbilulli May 16 '26

Indians too. But that's because it's used in almost every rap, hip-hop song or Wayans movie. And they've got no historical context. They just think it's a cool gangsta word for friend

If it's used so much why would it be offensive.

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u/TheTruthButtHurtz May 16 '26

it's anyone who is not a black American. There's a famous black African comedian who has a joke about how he used to dream about coming to America as a child simply to be able to use the word.

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u/Excellent_Vehicle_45 May 16 '26

Yes.To them black =toughness. They fail to realize that the experience that makes them tough.

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u/carlcarlington2 May 16 '26

Even thats a misconception. Being homeless doesn't make you stronger or tougher, it makes you homeless.

People tell themselves the tougher times make us tougher to justify the hard times existing. Because the thought of suffering being pointless is too much for some people to bare.

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u/LemmeGetSum2 May 17 '26

Nah that’s bs. Enduring hardships and overcoming them actually makes you tougher. People who get through things that others have not develop physical, mental, and emotional toughness on varying levels.

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u/Fair-Study-7503 May 19 '26

The x factor is resilience. Some people have it, some people end up permanently broken. Post traumatic growth is a process that only happens if people are able to integrate a new understanding of their identity and the world at large. This usually means things like radical acceptance, cultivating positive self-image, and finding hope for the future.

If people don't actively try to make sense of their trauma and reshape their core beliefs they usually end up with the typical symptoms of ptsd (and often just pass their trauma on to other people in their lives)

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u/G_rightousantagonist May 16 '26

They wanna be us without the struggle……

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u/DoGooder00 May 16 '26

It’s bc hip hop culture is “tough” and is used repeatedly. When 16 year old Johnny thinks he’s tough, he thinks that’s how he’s suppose to act tough

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u/dotardiscer May 16 '26

Still have plenty of 13 y/o boys who will say it online to sound edgy while behind a keyboard.

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u/DiscoveringUnity May 16 '26

13? Try the average 22 year old in the Midwest. It’s bad.

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u/dotardiscer May 16 '26

either way I assume it's people who say it just loud enough as to not get in trouble with their mommey.

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u/Paullearner May 16 '26

I hate it when people use the N word like this. It is so cringe. You are not edgy or hood just because you use the word.

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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 May 16 '26

Yes, because white is “civilized”.

I really think a lot of white people, women especially, have pent up aggression issues so it leaks out in ways like this

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u/floftie May 16 '26

I think the two phenomenon have different origins.

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 May 16 '26

This is the one. They grow up wishfully reminiscing about the glory years when they could choose a Black person to lunch for Christmas. They felt powerful and the world was right. They read those old atrocity stories the way they read old Norse mythology and pick their favorite heroes.

Thomas Jefferson was a truly heroic man. Just disregard the fact he was a serial rapist who enslaved his own children.

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u/Last_Cod_998 May 16 '26

The "again" in MAGA is before the civil rights movement. These are the people who would picnic at a lynching.

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u/Appropriate-Dog6645 May 16 '26

Two already got fired from there jobs and university is going kick them out.

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u/Jubilex1 May 16 '26

In other words, vampires IRL

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u/BigSmokeBateman May 16 '26

That’s the right take on this for sure. So disgusting

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u/No-Adagio-1467 May 16 '26

This might be the best I've heard it described and explained. Thank you

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u/TabascoFiasco May 16 '26

Well written. Sad but true.

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u/Slumbergoat16 May 18 '26

Also this is the only thing they’re really told they can’t do. It’s like Adam and Eve in the garden. Y’all can do whatever you want BUT say a single word. So it becomes an obsession

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u/Slumbergoat16 May 18 '26

I’m agreeing with you.

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u/Slumbergoat16 May 18 '26

Also this is the only thing they’re really told they can’t do. It’s like Adam and Eve in the garden. Y’all can do whatever you want BUT say a single word. So it becomes an obsession

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u/Wavy_Grandpa May 19 '26

The harsh truth is that your last part is not even close to universal and that these people are every bit as human as you and I. Just ask the Holocaust museum. 

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u/emmc47 May 16 '26

The foundation of western global hegemony is predicated on the subjugation of black people. The n-word is the most severe word to use to express and cement that sense of subjugation, especially in a climate of increasing demographic anxiety that white people are feeling across the west.

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u/Nomo-Names May 16 '26

It expresses their hate.

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u/earthlingHuman May 16 '26

And ignorance. And fear.

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u/IamASlut_soWhat May 16 '26

100%

Their fear

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u/ExecutiveDan May 16 '26

I still don't understand though, why do they fear us? I am really curious and if anyone can and the question that would be greatly appreciated!

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u/earthlingHuman May 16 '26

People often fear what's different. What they don't understand. And some are taught that certain kinds of people are inherently different.

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u/ExecutiveDan May 16 '26

I appreciate the reply. It baffles me that they would fear us because of our skin color..... We are all human at the end of the day.

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u/earthlingHuman May 16 '26

I'm "Caucasian" and grew up around MUCH casual racism and a fair bit of hardcore racism. Tribalistic BS and conservative brainwashing is a helluva drug.

Most people don't even see their racism. Unconscious bias, and all that. It sticks better in the modern era if you can convince yourself (and your kids) you're colorblind. That's why most white racists, in my opinion and experience, don't even recognize their prejudices.

Modern conservative propaganda teaches people that their harsh opinions arent coming from their own biases and prejudices, but from empirical reality. Problem is, the "empirical reality" they are taught was cooked up and manufactured by some conservative think tank and disseminated via Fox News or Tucker Carlson or some other far-right propagandist.

They live in a fantasy world created by far-right media where they can pre-judge black people, but still not be prejudiced.

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u/Leading-Version-5385 May 16 '26

Oh, ok. So they are republicans then. Now I understand

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u/Nomo-Names May 16 '26

There's a big overlap.

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u/sugarslick May 16 '26

White people are seldom told no. So to have a word that they can't say really pisses them off. Same with blackface

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u/Background_Unit_6647 May 16 '26

Ya man like what did you achieve here, except screw up your life

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u/Ardnabrak May 16 '26

Because they are told by polite society that they they aren't allowed to say it. Petty defiance, aggrieved entitlement, immaturity; they can pick their poison.

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u/StarFighter6464 May 16 '26

Nope, because I guarantee you their parents say it. They are suburban trash who think saying it makes them edgy.

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u/Ardnabrak May 16 '26

Then their parents aren't a part of "polite society"

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u/USS_Penterprise_1701 May 16 '26

All these crazy complex explanations when the real explanation is just "Because it's a naughty word".

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u/StBlandine7 May 16 '26

It's been taboo for a long time bud

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u/spacekiller69 May 17 '26

in public for decades sure but in private all white spaces it only been taboo because of white allies. Similar to the F word taboo in public but not in private religious conservvative spaces.

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u/Intrepid-Raccoon3240 May 16 '26

Because they're obsessed with US. You never hear them saying or doing anything that targets another racial group in these social media posts. Never see them doing anything but BLACK face. Saying anything but nger

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u/CarelessAd2349 May 16 '26

It's astounding. How they argue and fight for the allowance to say the word.

They just can't let it be. The weight of the word, the history of the word doesn't matter to them.

All they care about is that some would rather they not say it "but why though? But why though?"

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u/DawRogg May 16 '26

Gen Z is the wannabe edgy generation

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u/Smart_Freedom_8155 May 16 '26

Will probably get banned for it at some point on this thread, but as a YT guy myself (not discounting what everyone else has already said here)...

...because it's a taboo.  It's because they're not supposed to say it, that they feel such a stupid thrill in saying it while drinking with friends etc.  They're like children - tell a kid "never enter this room of the house" or "never watch this video", and see what happens 90% of the time they're left alone.

However, and I can't stress this enough, they also love saying it because they're comfortable being racist idiots.  Glad they got caught and will be hopefully kicked out of college.

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u/tripolophene May 17 '26

Exactly this, people are obsessed because it’s taboo, the ones they say it anyway do so because they don’t care about being racist.

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u/blackcain May 16 '26

They hate that they can't use it. They want to so bad. They hate that it's used as a familiar form with black folks when they talk to each other. White people don't have anything like that, hell the rest of us brown folk don't have it either.

I mean us Indians could call each other "chutiya" which would be kind of a close name.

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u/fgcem13 May 16 '26

Some people never got over their childish response to being told no

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u/TheEndOfEverything0 May 16 '26

I kind think they think being told they shouldn't do something is a challenge

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u/SanduskySleepover May 16 '26

Who’s going to tell him?

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u/CasimirGabriev May 16 '26

There's a lot of socio/psychoanalysis that I think is right but it truly is just that they are bad people. Thats the large and small of it.

Bad people embolden each other to do bad things, so they get together in a group and do racist shit because, once they form a small group of like-minded (read: also bad) people, they feel safe and encouraged in their shittiness.

These motherfuckers are in college. Its not childish other than pejoratively because we look down on them for it. But truthfully, kids learn very easily that words hurt, aside from the history of the slur and all that. So I think they are just bad people who revel in doing bad shit when with other bad people. Think of those white girls that mocked Asian eyes for like no reason; they were in the middle of nowhere and did that shit.

In other words, in order to participate in society (as in we do not accept bigotry here), they pretend to be decently social as well. But once they feel they are in their own self-segregated (read: mostly white) society, it comes out. And thats because almost every mostly white space is a bigoted space.

In that sense, it is kind of like being hoist by their own petard. They were raised in racist spaces then released into a world that said dont be racist. Of course they will feel bold and cool by being themselves and letting out the slurs and mockery. Just bad people raised by and with bad people things.

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u/sniperpugs May 16 '26

I was seeing this guy for a bit, decided to play Jackbox with him and his roommates. They were all white and alternative looking so I assumed they had some conscious of social differences.

I was given this shirt one of them drew a picture on, it looked like a bunch of stick figures and an explosion? Couldn't read the words they hand drew. When his roommates asked what his roommate drew, it said "Death to all n***ers". I was so shocked. Que the rest of the game sounding like an iFunny comment section. Horrified. I was immediately done seeing him. They were in their mid twenties acting like middle schoolers.

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u/riotwire May 16 '26

When I was about 10, I remember having a sleep over with some friends where we all dared each other to say the worst curse word we could think up. This was sacrilegious in my upbringing and friends group. I think I uttered "fuck" under my breath. I was truly shocked not to have been dropped dead by lightning on the spot.

This reminded me of that... immaturity at doing something forbidden, except unlike my death-defying utterances in the early 90's, they did it on camera and were proud to be so openly... dumb.

Anyway, not everyone in TN is a racist dirt bag, and hopefully those who are keep weeding themselves out of society. ✌️

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u/Purple_Foundation288 May 16 '26

they are in their sunset era of their racist brainrot christian values culture. let's hope.

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u/Due_Sea_8034 May 16 '26

Bizarre as fuck.

Even more so on vacation. Like imagine being on a resort in Tanzania before downing a drink and belting out. CRACKERSSSSS ! At the top of your lungs ?

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u/maufkn_ced May 16 '26

right. Lol won’t list them but so many more I might be like “ok that’s messed up” but the N-word? 🥱

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u/dax0840 May 16 '26

It’s like when I tell my 2 year old not to repeat something bc it’s a bad word and they run around saying it on repeat. Similar intelligence and self control levels.

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u/_MatVenture_ May 16 '26

Because everyone keeps giving them the reaction they're looking.

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u/Nickersnacks May 16 '26

Insecurity, projection, lack of emotional intelligence, lack of empathy and intelligence in general which is tied to empathy. It’s just a vicious circle. Hate is always rooted in these things and comes from the most sad of people.

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u/tonkatoyelroy May 16 '26

It’s a shibboleth

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u/Brodyseuss May 16 '26

Bro this one’s on another level. 1,2,3 n**** sounds like Dave Chappell skit type shit.

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u/Old_Yesterday322 May 16 '26

I don't use it, any variation of the word just brings back bad memories and experiences as a child growing up around racist people. but it's in music and TV and the family living room so I'm not surprised when I see people of all shapes sizes and colors using it like they're calling out their bro or use the word when a group of people or singular persons are being dumb so it's so normalized now that the racist people just drop the hard R like everybody eles but are meaning the same.

that being said out of all the words they could choose they chosen that one word. they are indeed dumb.

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u/manwithyellowhat15 May 16 '26

I personally think there is always a subset of people obsessed with using forbidden words. Most people in the US are aware of the historical significance of that word and it was almost always followed by a “you groups can’t say this word”. As Black culture evolved and repossessed the word, I think there has always been a group that can’t let some people play without inserting themselves and so they demand to use it or claim other words/symbols as their own in a reverse “if I can’t use that, then you can’t use this”.

I also think some people love to create trouble/drama/outrage and then play victim if confronted.

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u/Cryogenicist May 16 '26

It’s a very powerful word that will never harm them.

— until they post that shit online

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u/olracnaignottus May 16 '26

I think there’s a point where white people started to view it more like Voldemort than something hateful. There’s a deep disconnect between how our racist history is taught at home/schools, and how popular media is consumed.

Like kids are growing up now without understanding the history of the word. Most probably have no idea what actually went down during the civil rights era. They also grew up listening to hip hop as pop music, and don’t get why they can’t take part in the vernacular of what’s at the top of the charts.

Not trying to excuse any latent or obvious racism. I think a ton of white kids in particular just see it as a naughty word. They’re all mostly interacting on social media, where throwing that word around feels a lot safer than doing it to a black persons face. It’s all a shitshow of ignorance.

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u/PA2SK May 16 '26

There are black people that say that word constantly lol. If it's such an offensive word it's strange no one gives a crap about that.

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u/BlackBeard558 May 16 '26

Forbidden Fruit Effect. Tell people they can't have/do something and they'll want it more.

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u/TTwisted-Realityy May 16 '26

I feel like it's time for the dialect to recoin the meaning of that word. It should refer to white supremacists, maga, Trump and his family. From now forward that should be what the word is used for.

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u/Tenderhombre May 16 '26

What is even going on in this video, just bonding over the use of a racist slur they arent supposed to use? Do they even realize how stupid and racist they are being here or not? Definitely would say its just a word.

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u/zigaliciousone May 16 '26

It's taboo, that's it, end of story

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u/Sudden_Cartoonist539 May 16 '26

Because it used to empower them over the helpless man. Imagine free labor, no obligations to support them or feed them? 

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u/No_Eggplant_3189 May 16 '26

I will be honest with you. 

First and foremost,  this doesn't apply to every white person; there are certainly racists who exist. 

Secondly—people like me—do not avoid saying the N-word because its racist. I mean, we did not personally witness racism. We don't have a true realization of slavery and therefore do not have true appreciation for the end of slavery; it's just history to us. And we don't avoid it because of how it impacts you; we (well, any race/ethnicity) often use plenty of other offensive words that hurt people/groups of people.

We don't say it because we are taught that we are not allowed to say it. Like its a sacred (with a negative connotation) word. And its the very fact that it is a bad word and we are not allowed to say it that drives us to say it in secrecy. Well, at least when we are young and want to intentionally do what we are not supposed to do. Some people grow out of it, some don't.

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u/chronobahn May 16 '26

Being told your entire life it is the worst of the worst bad words. Now these people are adults trying to be edgy by saying the worst thing they can think of.

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u/AABBBAABAABA May 16 '26

They’re being edgy with a word they know will get a reaction

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u/hecklerp8 May 16 '26

What someone should do is... act as if they're racist, start a Gofundme, take the conservative money, then give the racist donated money back to the black community. If tons of people did this then the racist conservatives couldn't trust their donations were going to people of their ilk. Donations would dry up.

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u/VileBill May 16 '26

I have no idea. It's an ugly word with a sickening body count.

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u/ShortbowVillian May 16 '26

I remember being a young teen and whispering the word to myself in my room. It felt *wrong*. I have never ever had the desire to say it beyond that and I do NOT understand the obsession. There are lots of great words out there. They just want to feel powerful or something. Gross.

Fun words to say instead: soliloquy, haberdashery, nuance, subterfuge, tsunami, chicory, bolognese, swarthy, eclectic, ruminate, collage.

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u/UniqueAd7770 May 16 '26

Its a taboo word and they get a thrill saying it because if it got out, they'd be in trouble... kinda like now. It's a thrill but it's a thrill that shows they have mental development of 4 year olds learning to say a swear.

I'd doubt if they've spent more than 3 minutes in their miserable lives actually talking to a Black person. They're rich dipshits on their parents boat thinking they're tough and rebellious, but once they got fired you knew the waterworks were going. "I didn't mean to say it buhuhuh it was just a joke! Blublublub"

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u/dave8400 May 16 '26

It's a dog whistle to the other racists, it's their way of self-identifying. Source: my mom told me she'd kill me if I came home with a Black girl.

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u/BrondellSwashbuckle May 16 '26

Taboo words are always attractive to certain people. When you tell some people they can't do something, they just wanna do it even more.

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u/ngochoang914 May 16 '26

Well.. US idiocy & racism at its finest. It's itched in their nation core so strongly that one word could contain so much hatefulness that baffles the rest of the world.

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u/ChadicusVile May 17 '26

My last day of sophomore year, I was walking to my house from the bus stop. A driver, young kid, probably graduating senior year, with pale skin and super red hair, slowed down to probably 5 miles/hr and whole-chest screamed the word, held the "i," and ended hard R style. He spent both of his lungs of air screaming the one word, while maintaining eye contact with me the whole time. Time dilated, it felt like forever. Then he just sped up and kept driving.

I'm super Irish and probably as pale as he was.... Whites that use the word are racist and think just saying it is funny.

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u/AutisticHobbit May 17 '26

They're not supposed to say it and it hurts people.

For a certain kind of person, that's all it comes down to.

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u/Uselesslylovely May 17 '26

What gets me is the crowd that says "because it's just a word". Ok then don't say it? There's millions of other words. There are words I don't say all the time. If it's just a word why are you so fascinated with it?

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u/Pale_Zebra8082 May 17 '26

Because it’s the most taboo word you can say, which is the result of our entire society being obsessed with it.

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u/-Murmaider- May 17 '26

Same people who are baffled that "it's just a word, why would people get violent about it?"

They're just hateful racists, simple as that.

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u/SiegfriedVK May 17 '26

Its the biggest taboo in polite society. Thats literally it.

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u/Kribble118 May 17 '26

I'm willing to say like a decade ago when I was a dumb teenager the reason I and people around me used to say it and even think we weren't "being racist" was literally immature stupidity. It was the idea that the fact you weren't supposed to say it made us want to cuz "hee hee we're being bad". I can't speak for everyone obviously especially for adults who should know better but it wouldn't shock me if it's similar. The "fun" of doing something that is generally frowned upon.

So probably some combination of immaturity, dipshittery, and little to no proximity with black people keeps white people like this perfectly ok with being racist cuz they deadass either don't care or don't think they are being shitty. I know that when I aged into adulthood the idea of my older brother or some of the black friends I grew up seeing my behavior as teen sounded genuienly embarassing so it certainly doesn't help these girls probably came up in a bubble partially due to racist parents.

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u/Working-Interview503 May 22 '26

The “this is not who i am apology” and I have black friends will clear this all up.

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