Landon School Goes Viral for the Wrong Reason

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Another viral vid, another false debate: The N-word and the outrage machine

Read entire article here: https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/the-n-word-debate-and-outrage-machine-after-white-students-go-viral/

There are few words in the English language that in one context can resemble a lovingly joking gesture and in another are supposed to represent a century of racial hatred. It is the Voldemort of English words that we technically aren’t supposed to say but we all know what we’re referring to when we say the N-word.

On Sept. 2, a video emerged of a group of white students on a DC Metro train singing the lyrics to a song by rapper DaBaby that included multiple uses of the N-word. Ranging from the man who recorded this encounter to the student’s school response, everyone pretends they’re offended by the usage of this word but we all know this isn’t true.

It’s this strange American lie that some of us tell each other that the N-word is abhorrent to use in any circumstance but we’re afraid to admit the obviousness of there being a black exemption.

If these boys were all black, yelling the same song on a metro line, no one would care and I wouldn’t be writing this article. We are also supposed to pretend this topic is simple but it’s incredibly complex and highly circumstantial.

Even among black people, there have been debates about whether we should use it at all as some believe it perpetuates slavery language while others feel that they want the license to take ownership of a negative word and remix it into a term of endearment.

Read entire article here: https://nypost.com/2022/09/11/the-n-word-debate-and-outrage-machine-after-white-students-go-viral/

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