Madonna In Hot Water For Using N-word To Refer To Her Son

[JeanLucPicard]

haha WHY would she apologize for that? It made matters worse. She should've just shrugged all the dissapproving voices and stick to the idea that "#dis#####" isn't an offensive term in that context. C'mon.

[puckluck2]

Exactly. I feel bad for people who actually take offence to that.

[Zevo]

nm

[JeanLucPicard]

Originally Posted by Zevo

So it would be o.k. if a mod gave you the custom user title 'sand ni99a' , you know, all in fun like?

No man that is completely different. You have to pick and chose with this - its not one standard applied to everything. What Madonna did was ok, what you're suggesting is probably not.

[Bmuzyka]

I, personally, am more offended by people who say "The N-Word!"

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by cKy

But isnt saying this the exact same as saying #####? The context and meaning are the same.

No

[Bigtime]

#disthread

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by JeanLucPicard

No man that is completely different. You have to pick and chose with this - its not one standard applied to everything. What Madonna did was ok, what you're suggesting is probably not.

I have said I don't think the use of the word is acceptable by a white person.

Can you please expand on why Madonna's usage is acceptable and why the post of Zevo isn't.

[Ark2]

I am sure that Al Sharpton would be impressed with the fake indignation professed by some in this thread.

[FlamesAddiction]

I am not commenting on whether or not people "should" be offended, but someone would have to know that as a white person saying it, there will be people that are offended. It happens all the time.

So she is either an idiot or just looking of publicity (or both).

[puckluck2]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I have said I don't think the use of the word is acceptable by a white person.

Can you please expand on why Madonna's usage is acceptable and why the post of Zevo isn't.

Pretty simple really. She was using ni××a to describe her son. Nixxa is used all the time by people. It pretty much has the same meaning as "bro". Now if she showed a pic of her son and said "LOL my cotton picking Nixxer son then yeah that's racist. But it was her own son and she used disnixxa.

And besides it's her son do you think she was trying to belittle her own son by calling him a racist name? Jeez people use your heads.

Nixxa is another word for bro. I use it all the time even in front of my black friends. They use it all the time too. No big deal.

[CaptainCrunch]

As soon as I read this story I had the vision of Peter from Family Guy backhanding Lois and yelling "That's our word" after she called him a Nerf Herder.

Is it offensive? No but half the time people just go out of their way to be offended so that they can show how enlightened they are by pointing it out to the world. Those are the grenade people, they take something that is in my mind pretty innocuous throw a grenade at it and then watch the explosion with pride.

Then again Madonna is kind of a weiner anyways.

[octothorp]

I read this opinion piece the other day and it really puts my opinion better than I could phrase it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-...b_4625828.html

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Pretty simple really. She was using ni××a to describe her son. Nixxa is used all the time by people. It pretty much has the same meaning as "bro". Now if she showed a pic of her son and said "LOL my cotton picking Nixxer son then yeah that's racist. But it was her own son and she used disnixxa.

And besides it's her son do you think she was trying to belittle her own son by calling him a racist name? Jeez people use your heads.

Nixxa is another word for bro. I use it all the time even in front of my black friends. They use it all the time too. No big deal.

No I don't think she was trying to belittle her son.

I am commenting more on the general acceptance of the word (or variants thereof). To be I don't believe the use of it (in any of the variants is acceptable).

But hey I am old, what do I know.

[sun]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Pretty simple really. She was using ni××a to describe her son. Nixxa is used all the time by people. It pretty much has the same meaning as "bro". Now if she showed a pic of her son and said "LOL my cotton picking Nixxer son then yeah that's racist. But it was her own son and she used disnixxa.

And besides it's her son do you think she was trying to belittle her own son by calling him a racist name? Jeez people use your heads.

Nixxa is another word for bro. I use it all the time even in front of my black friends. They use it all the time too. No big deal.

How about in front of a black man you've never met? "Hey puckluck, meet my friend Mike" "Hey mike, what's up ######?"

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Pretty simple really. She was using ni××a to describe her son. Nixxa is used all the time by people. It pretty much has the same meaning as "bro". Now if she showed a pic of her son and said "LOL my cotton picking Nixxer son then yeah that's racist. But it was her own son and she used disnixxa.

And besides it's her son do you think she was trying to belittle her own son by calling him a racist name? Jeez people use your heads.

Nixxa is another word for bro. I use it all the time even in front of my black friends. They use it all the time too. No big deal.

Originally Posted by sun

How about in front of a black man you've never met? "Hey puckluck, meet my friend Mike" "Hey mike, what's up ######?"

Both ###### and ##### are censored on this site.

Hey CP, get with the game, these words are cool now, all good.

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by puckluck2

Pretty simple really. She was using ni××a to describe her son. Nixxa is used all the time by people. It pretty much has the same meaning as "bro". Now if she showed a pic of her son and said "LOL my cotton picking Nixxer son then yeah that's racist. But it was her own son and she used disnixxa.

And besides it's her son do you think she was trying to belittle her own son by calling him a racist name? Jeez people use your heads.

Nixxa is another word for bro. I use it all the time even in front of my black friends. They use it all the time too. No big deal.

This is pretty much the reason why I don't know why people are making a huge deal out of this. In high school all of the brown kids called each other this. One of my fellow black friends called most of his friends ##### and like 95% of his friends around school weren't black.

Now if Modana had used the word in a racist way then yeah I would've likely been a little put of by this. The meaning of this word hasn't been highly offensive to me for a while (mainly because nobody has called me it in a racist way).

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

This is pretty much the reason why I don't know why people are making a huge deal out of this. In high school all of the brown kids called each other this. One of my fellow black friends called most of his friends ##### and like 95% of his friends around school weren't black.

Now if Modana had used the word in a racist way then yeah I would've likely been a little put of by this. The meaning of this word hasn't been highly offensive to me for a while (mainly because nobody has called me it in a racist way).

HN, this is an honest question.

At what point does the word (or any word) change its meaning?

[sun]

My friends and I use "mother####er" as a term of endearment. Does that make it inoffensive? What if Madonna posted a picture of her son with #dismother####er?

People would be offended by that too and there aren't even racial undertones.

I'm not calling her a racist, just an idiot.

I just don't get what's so hard about not saying a word that many, many people find extremely offensive. Just don't say it. It's easy. Same goes for "fag". Expand your vocabulary.

[Matata]

Happy Martin Luther King Day, everyone!