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Originally Posted by JoshBB
smh.
I don't know if you even acknowledged my post, but it's called reclaiming a word sweetie.
By a minority taking a slur used against them for decades/centuries/howeverlong and reducing it to an endearing term or mere descriptor, that is empowering to that minority and is vital to their rights.
For example - gay people taking the word 'queer' and changing the definition to mean anyone who is not straight. black people using the 'n word' (which I will not use because I am white, and white people have been using that word to oppress black people for a long time) as a way to call each other 'brother', as a greeting..
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I know and understand.Black guys at my school 20 years ago were calling each other "my *****" but BB have a set of rules.Certain words are considered racist or offensive.BB have to try atleast to be consistent in enforcing those rules FOR EVERYBODY.The BB house is not the outside world.Rightly or wrongly there are certain things which people can say on the outside world which they can't say in the house.BB/C5 can't have black guys walking around saying the 'N' word but then as soon as a white guy(like Ken Morley who said a similar word) use it they are removed.It would be totally inconsistent and a logistical nightmare.