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Originally Posted by mineistaken
Point is that if I say "white" is offensive it does not make it offensive. Some tool "invented" that "negro" was offensive and some sheep followed. Does not mean it is true.
Of course it can be used in an offensive way, just as any word, but it is not offensive term out of itself.
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It's a tradition with negroes to be offended by what they once insisted on being called.
colored...OFFENSIVE! call us Negroes
negroes...OFFENSIVE! call us Black
black...OFFENSIVE! call us African-Americans