Originally Posted by
drone36
I guess one would identify with their culture better, but even then, you're on this forum to identify and relate with the forum regardless of culture.
If people want to use the word "nigger" just because they're now allowed to doesn't make it right either. because then it's now cultural appropriation, and forum members would want to use this word regardless of their own culture when it's known to be downplayed in real life.
The word is known to be a harmful bad word depending on the context in real life, of course, but that's the slang terminology, but if you think about the word itself and what it meant back in the 1730's, it was a harmful word. So i disagree with this, but not completely.
I must say that "cultural appropriation" is the weakest argument I have seen on the topic. On the internet I am not black or white or muslim or jew or anything else until I identify as otherwise. Their is no cultural appropriation on the internet because the internet is its own culture. Other cultures influence it but it is unique.
Also, I think it is ridiculous, particularly on the internet, to complain a specific point of one countries history and let it affect all of culture. The Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Danish, and English all had more slaves over a longer period that The USA, several starting before it was The USA was formed. All slaves are industrial tools, and there are still slaves today. Here's the real kicker though, can I say "What is up my Negro?"? it is the appropriate word.