RESPONSE TO ABOVE ARTICLE:
'THE WRITER of a new play containing the N-word in its title has been attacked for ignoring pain and history associated with the word'. What 'pain'? What 'history'?
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell (1903–1950), British author. Nineteen Eighty-Four, part one, chapter three (1949), Ingsoc party slogan.
'African-American comedian Reginald D Hunter was lambasted by Lee Jasper, senior race advisor to the London Mayor Ken Livingstone, who attacked the word for contributing holding the black Disapora back (Sic)'. How can a word hold anyone back, unless they let it?
'The word is imbued with so much pain and anger that has not been resolved'. Get over it!
'It's past properly understood, and there are people who are not strong enough to be able to handle it'. There will always be weak people. Does this mean that we, the strong, have to be held back by you, the weak, because you refuse to toughen up? Fuck you, loser!
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. George Orwell (1903–1950), British author. O’Brien to Winston Smith, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, part three, chapter three (1949).
'There are black people across the world who have to live with the consequences of that word (Sic). I find it difficult to conceptualise that the use of this word is somehow an advance for black people worldwide.' This is a deliberate confusion with words that arbitrarily label objects & actions and those objects & actions themselves. It's a pathetic attempt to make whites feel collective guilt, forever, for something that happened before they were born. It is an attempt to make racism the Original Sin of the white race – a blot that can never be removed without a Black say so. Disgustingly hypocritical Black Racism (ie, Doublethink)!
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell (1903–1950), British author. Nineteen Eighty-Four, part two, chapter nine (1949), extract from Goldstein’s book.
‘I don’t want that word to have power over me and to stop me from living my life. Hiding the word will not make the world a better place.' This is fine, but attempts to elude the fact that making such a statement proves that 'that word' still does have precisely that effect over him. Otherwise, why make the statement? What happened to Frank TALKER when He was a child, He has now gotten over, so why talk about it now – in full adulthood? Unless, of course, he is specifically asked about it by someone with a sincere interest in Him. The solution here is, therefore, that when it comes up in conversation: Fine; discuss it. When it doesn't, don't push other people's faces into it because that would prove you haven't gotten over it and are, therefore, self disempowered by your own cowardice. Does this mean that the upcoming remake of "The Dam Busters" must call guy Gibson's dog "N****R"? How, exactly, does one pronounce that?
'Producers for the show fear the advertising ban could severely affect ticket sales'. This is Black, Racist wishful thinking since a similar ban had no such effect on 'The Spy Who Shagged Me' some years ago.
The 1990 Trust should spend its scarce resources taking positive actions regarding those they claim to represent, rather than focussing on words that can't be erased from their Newspeak dictionaries any more than they can from the minds of racists. It's a fallacy to believe that banning a word can ban the actions usually associated with it. This is the philosophy of the totalitarians described in Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four": Dumbass Niggers!
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Attempting to prevent people from using the word 'nigger' is tantamount to a ban on discussing racism. Whose side is Lee Jasper on? Does Lee Jasper really think that black people cannot bear to see the word 'nigger' on a poster about a play? Generally speaking, I'm sure they're not bothered - so he must be taking this action to spare the feelings of white people who, guilty about their role in the racist present, do not wish to be reminded of the role played by white people in the racist past.
If you come across some dogshit on the pavement, you just step over it and leave time and the elements to wear away its nuisance - you do not examine it, sniff it, expound upon its nastiness and then seek to ban dogs from crapping! If anything, you go to live in a dog-free zone - eg. Beijing!
"'I have to say that I find you rather forward in your expression, Frank - maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned, but I don't, myself, feel comfortable calling somebody a nigger (Sic) unless they've called me a white cunt first!' However, here is where you go quite inexplicably wrong. It's a bit like saying you don't want to discuss paedophilia until someone tries to have sex with your daughter! When John Lennon uses the word, he isn't a racist and no black ever claimed that he was: He wasn't even banned by the BBC for doing so!"
Of course this is right - I was trying to be humorous about my own lack of confidence, but I was also considering the word Nigger purely as a racist weapon and not simply a word which describes someone in a state of oppression.
Sorry, I was being rather obtuse when discussing your use of conjunctions - but the solution is TO be explicit! I also have problems with "which" and "that" - sometimes one makes more sense than the other, but it is often just a matter of style. I always recommend Fowler in these matters - he is very, very good...and humorous (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowler's_Modern_English_Usage)
As for capitals...you're a n...n...n...n...Naughty man! But your dictionary would appear to be racist - perhaps Lee Jasper should be made aware...that would teach it! I agree, Niggers with big N's would solve many of the worlds problems...
'Of course this is right - I was trying to be humorous about my own lack of confidence, but I was also considering the word Nigger purely as a racist weapon and not simply a word which describes someone in a state of oppression'.
The only problem with the above - which actually gets to the heart of the matter - is that the oppression we're talking about is self-oppression. This is precisely why talking about words as context free entities that can only have one – derogatory – meaning is so pointlessly politically correct.
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I'm sure you've heard Frank, the Word has now been 'symbolically' banned within New York city. Fortunately, there is currently no punishment associated with the use of the Word - because US prisons are already facing a massive over-subscription from the black community...
So first we had the Word used as an extremely derogatory term for black people...then black people used it among themselves as a term of endearment...now white people (as they often do) have copied the black-hip-speak and have begun to use it amongst themselves in the same manner...and now the Word's been banned!
But why?! Are white people afraid of black people calling them Niggers?! Or are they just afraid that black people might use the Word to be friendly towards them?!
Although I'm not for banning the Word, surely, if there were a case for doing so, the time's about 200 years too late? And, anyway, black people have largely neutralized it's potency by exploiting it's usage.
I suppose the only place we're going to be able to use it now...
...is in the speakeasy!
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