*eyeroll*

[conuly]

So, this person asked a language question. And in it, s/he quoted a sentence using the word "niggah". It's a sentence that you're pretty much only going to hear from a black person, making the word not racist. Edit: Well, that's weird. Who agrees with Kibbles and Fugacious down in the comments? (Whether or not it's offensive in and of itself is an argument for another eon, but let's just get to the point here)

This prompts a self-righteous "I'm from South Africa originally!!!!" girl (I'm calling troll, by the way) to flip out that the OP is obviously "racist" because her point could've been made without the oh-so-offensive Big Scawwy Word!

So far, so good. I mean, she somehow is missing the point that this is a word used by black people in an inoffensive manner (even when people point that out to her) and that the entire sentence can only be quoting a black person speaking to another black person, again in an inoffensive, non-racist manner, but fine. Whatever. She's just too full of trollish indignation to care. That's cool.

And then the girl asks "What are you, retarded?" (and, predictably, refuses to acknowledge her own offensiveness)

I'm not sure if I want to laugh or cry. The inanity of the entire post is enough to drive me battier than usual.

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[conuly]

Huh. Honest mistake, most LJers are female.