I wonder how the old racist people that used the N word would feel about the fact that the people that they used this word on, are now using amongst each other.. would they be mad or would they find it funny..
I mean…. Larry kind of grew up in as different a time from Tyler as anyone really. He’s not wrong. He didn’t grow up like Larry did in a society where the N word was being used by racist ppl to demean black ppl constantly and publicly without remorse or consequence. If he was telling a dude who came up at the same time as him “I grew up in a different time” that wouldn’t really make sense cause they grew up in the same time
The only times people don't get offended is when specific white people say it to other specific white people, and black people say it to other black people. Any other time it's offensive. Lol If a black guy is calling you the n-word and your white, you're probably about to get beat up or shot! Accept on the rare occasion you're the 1 white kid in the entire hood that grew up there. The white guy who became trans just so he could turn black.
He said he grew in a different time not he grew up before him... Larry grew up in a time were racism have a higher rate when tyler grew up in a more least racism rate.
Was that Larry's decision? A lot of us didn't have a say what was allowed. The best we did was protect and fight for equal rights. Save as many people as we could and try our best to improve the lives of everyone.
Instead they had things like the holocaust but black people will never see unity with Jews over mass discrimination because they’re “white” it’s sad. We could all get along but people choose to keep creating groups and categories
Yeah in Larry's time it was "ger" in Tyler's time it's "ga" and what he means by different time is black people currently are more accepting of the word than the past. Which is refreshing because for so long black people hated that but they could not only say nigga but also say cracker honky peckerwood or white boy and we don't get offended by those words but they aren't nearly as catchy as the word nigga.
Haven’t been a big fan of Tyler but this is definitely a time I give him respect. Mentioning “you guys give these words power”. 100% that even goes to these curse words that everybody has to censor because it hurts your feelings. Hell I can’t even name them on here without it getting removed because of the new internet standards and censorships
Ha, nah I can't really just say it regularly cuz culture but I just say it with my friends or when I'm singing to a song cuz we both grown up the same. And I'm white as snow, can't get a fucking tan for the life of me.
Tyler’s 100% right. By maintaining double standards on all slurs, we’re preserving their negative connotations, people are so naive not realizing that by trying so hard to avoid causing oppression via language, they’re reinforcing and upholding the mindsets, and contexts that those oppressive words were originally used in
Tyler just called out so many black people that are stuck in the past lmao let them look back while we only look forward getting offended over words as simple as that just makes no sense to me i never understood black peoples want to hold onto its old meaning this is a whole different time let us evolve and come close together not push each other away because of how the world was 100 years ago
@javier escuella you clearly live in a red city, LA, San Antonio, everybody is offended by everything. I saw someone get punched tryna ask for directions, he clearly didn’t know where he was the street name or nothin so he didn’t know how to explain himself and the bitch got triggered by that. The word doesn’t have meaning to anyone that has any sense but unfortunately people with sense are a minority nowadays
Honestly no, as a black person even I dont use such a word because its hurtful. Any person which knows of the history of that word would be polite enough not to use it as well.
@@benwinson295 the history your kind gave the word is what gives it power there is no other version or us that give it power denying that would be denying the actions behind that word and how they still can apply today if a racist person used the word to offend them while whipping them to death why want to use the same word when addressing your friends it makes no sense
@@yinnacle9885 thank you for reiterating what the other person said and continuing to not add substance to anything said like you do with every conversation you enter in life for that i will reward you by telling you to read exactly what i said again
Ik it's joke but fr this is what people thought. Only really sensitive ass people (who used to be a lot more rare) over thought the whole thing and got mad.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 i don't give a fuck what you THINK you know about X. He completely changed his views and left the Nation after visiting Mecca. Come back when you're in 2023.
It is weird. Black people have always said they use it to take ownership of it, but using it hasn't removed any of the offensiveness. The use just perpetuates its existence, and people are just as offended by it now as they ever have been.
It's not just weird, it's racist. To exclude people from being able to say it purely because of their skin color is textbook racism. Then they argue well it's because of the meaning of the word, but the meaning of the word has changed over time and it isn't used in that derogatory way anymore for the most part.
He was almost there with the insightful thought: “If we continue to associate the word with its original derogatory meaning, and thus be offended by it, we continue to perpetuate the power of the word. When in reality the intended goal of ‘claiming’ the word for ourselves is to change the meaning of it and remove its power.”
@@drippyspaff7616 Giving the word power is the direct result of taking offense to its usage - regardless of intent. If one intends to offend another in their usage, and someone is offended and acts on their emotions the offender has succeeded in their goal. The word only has no power when it can’t phase you regardless of who says it or their intent.
@@ericwright7892 the whole “sticks and stones” thing applies to all words, but words do have power beyond the control of how someone reacts to them. Slurs can be used to rationalize racism by racists because they themselves view it as derogatory regardless of how people react to them. Someone not being offended by hate speech doesn’t make hate speech okay, just like someone being offended by something innocent doesn’t make those innocent words inherently bad or wrong.
@@drippyspaff7616 Words don’t have any meaning or value beyond the value we give them. That’s why words come with multiple definitions. They only mean what we as a collective (at least the majority) agree it means. Sticks ands stones absolutely applies. Because just as we can’t control how certain quotes, lyrics and expressions stick with us emotionally but can control our physical responses we should conduct ourselves accordingly when hearing hate speech or slurs.
@@everybodycallsmesir its clear that back in the day, blacks and whites referred to blacks as different variations of ‘negro’. The terms varied much more back then due to the lack of stigma. Nowadays we just see ‘gga’ instead of ‘er’ being thrown around by almost every ethnicity as somewhat of a correction for involving race into things in the first place. Its not about what you look like, its about who you are that is important.
@@applethunderspice3072 It comes from "Negus" meaning king, someone of power/authority. Considering since American people use terms they can barely pronouce wrong, this where the power of words come from. Ni**a and Ni**er are both wrong and ignorant in all aspects.
I’m Hispanic and I’ve been saying nigga since middle school and still say it now. And now black people are being more protective of that word being used by other races even more nowadays. I’ve always used that word as in “homie” or “bro” and never intentionally using it to single out one black person and let them feel weird. I have a black friend and we use it everytime with each other and he’s never said anything about being bothered by it since we first became friends. I’m not trying to offend anyone when I say “nigga.” Nowadays it literally is used as a new filler word for “bro” or homie” so I still don’t get why some (or is most the correct word?) black people get offended by it. I’m not being racist or anything. Just trying to say my piece in this and what I think.
@@BootsAndCatsAndBootsAndCats There's other shorts to be miserable on. Let people have their discourse without being a P.o.S because no one else is unhappy.
@@menageriedemonstres2288 He wasn't being a piece of shit, he was just pointing out that Tyler said some very surface-level stuff, it wasn't a deconstruction and he was very much just rambling towards the question of "why can I (a black man) say it, when you (a white man) cannot"
@@BrendanWhelan It depends a lot, it's not that easy and depends on a lot of it It's definitely possible but not something that the majority can do, either for socioeconomical, health or mental health issue
