what if Detroit wanted to honor their population, their athletic prowess, and cool dancing by calling their team the Detroit N******?
I don't think it is too hard to understand.
yeah, but it's perfectly ok if those of a particular ethnicity use the "N Word" in communicating with each other, but if anybody thats not them says it, then its wrong...
Thats what I don't understand...
I was thinkin of askin this earlier.
Is it still considered offensive if Indians casually call other Indians redskins?
Again, this goes back to how we can't decide for someone else if they're offended or not. It's kinda like NUance alluded to earlier - it's arbitrary and often too gray to have a definitive line of "THIS is offensive
| THIS is not offensive."
These things are best judged in a case-by-case basis. Intent has to be interpreted, the level of outrage taken into account, and there's a reasonableness factor involved.
