[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Saying black people can say 'x' word but white people can't is discrimination based on colour in itself.

not really, because words exist in a context. the world is not a dictionary where all words are separate and exist on their own.

words exist in a context, and especially a word that has an emotionally value for black people means there is a different meaning when a black person uses it.

words do not exist in a vacuum the way that numbers do. language is about how words are used and what the intention of the speaker is, they are not all just individual entities the way numbers are. a number has a certain value, and nothing can change that single number's value. but words are meaningless without context, so context does matter.