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    Cool Some "Liberals" Are Up in Arms at Bill Maher Using Racial Slur on 'Real Time'

    The HBO late-night host Bill Maher drew quick and widespread condemnation on Friday night for using a racial epithet in an interview with Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska.

    Shortly after 10 p.m., Mr. Maher, the comedian and host of HBO’s “Real Time,” was talking to Mr. Sasse on his program about the boundaries between adolescence and maturity, and how adults in California still dress up for Halloween.

    When Mr. Sasse said this did not happen in his state, Mr. Maher said, “I’ve got to get to Nebraska more.”

    Mr. Sasse replied: “You’re welcome. We’d love to have you work in the fields with us.”

    Mr. Maher said: “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house nigger. No, it’s a joke.”
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/a...word.html?_r=0

    HAHAHA! What a bunch of thin-skinned panty-waists getting worked up over a white man using the n-word in that context. (Check out the comments, and outrage over on forums like DU.)

    It's a JOKE. He's a COMEDIAN. Settle the fuck down, you easily-triggered snowflakes. You should know Bill Maher is hardly one to be PC.

    Some on the left are still pissed at him because he keeps inviting rabid right-wingers like Milo and Coulter on his show, and actually gives them a fair shake.

    Guess it really sucks that some liberals actually care about free speech, speaking their minds, and not giving a damn who gets offended, eh?
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    Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos Find Common Ground

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/a...nnopoulos.html
    "That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E

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    Here's another comedian that couldn't care less about "things you shouldn't joke about":



    "That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E

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    Hypocrisy runs deep in the Leftist psyche.

    It's perfectly fine for blacks to use the word, "nigger" in their conversation, in their rap crap, on their clothing, etc. but let a White even hint at it and they're ready to kill him.

    If it's such a derogatory term, it shouldn't be okay for anyone to use it in public. If it's not, then quit making such a big deal out of it.

    Phuk Leftist PC.
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    I don't know. I make it a point to never use that word in my vocabulary. And have even chided one of my little cousins for uttering it after he heard one of his (white) friends at school using it in a joking manner.

    I can sympathize with the argument that Blacks should be able to "take ownership" of the word to try to diffuse its historically deeply racist and authoritarian connotations, but to get all bent out of shape even when used in such a mocking manner by a comedian really is pushing it too far.

    Part of the problem is that so many people TAKE words too seriously. They allow them to have too much force and meaning.

    If we ever hope to take the "sting" out of bad words and make them less powerful, we NEED to be able to joke about them. We need to diffuse them and make them less potent in their expression.

    The bottom-line is that so much of this PC "word police" bullshit really does border on Orwellian "Newspeak" crap straight out of the novel 1984 -- I mean, if we ban and block and censor ALL words that are offensive to anybody, what will be left with as a language?

    I shudder to even think about it.
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    I know this isn't going to make much sense but in my experiences it's all in how it's said and who your around. I've dropped the N bomb a few times in a room full of black people and it was acceptable. Got laughed at and was shrugged off. Also I've dropped the N bomb a few times to where shit was about to get crazy. The older generation outright just doesn't like white people using it. The younger generation is generally ok as long as your cool with them, and don't use it hatefully. If the word sounds like it has ER at the end of it such as nigger that's generally hateful. But with A at the end of it such as nigga, it's generally ok. Granted your cool with the people around and they know you to not be racist. Sometimes just substitute it with ninja and your safe, or just don't do it at all.

    But to the topic, fuck the snowflakes and everyone throwing a bitch fit over what Maher said, his opinion, his joke, his problem. These liberal turds are what hardcover thugs and gangster types would see as a soft target, no matter how PC they are they would still end up robbed, and possibly dead in a street if they crossed the wrong dudes. Time they wake up and realize some black people are great and will do anything for you, and some niggers don't give a F and would kill them and their families if given the chance, and realize who's who.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arcangel View Post
    If the word sounds like it has ER at the end of it such as nigger that's generally hateful. But with A at the end of it such as nigga, it's generally ok.
    FWIW, it does sound like Maher used the -a variant and not the -er.

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    Dear Abby,

    I am a white man. Is it socially acceptable for me to use the word "Wigger" to describe another white man?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet3534 View Post
    Dear Abby,

    I am a white man. Is it socially acceptable for me to use the word "Wigger" to describe another white man?
    You just screwed yourself with your first sentence. Don't you know it's totally unacceptable to admit to being a White male? No matter what you say after that is unacceptable.
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    He was only telling the truth.
    While no one ever listens to me,
    I am constantly being told to be quiet.

    In a world of snowflakes,
    be the heat..

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    I also make it a point not to say it. However, it should not be given the power it has. Its just a derogatory word. Nothing more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alismith View Post
    Hypocrisy runs deep in the Leftist psyche.

    It's perfectly fine for blacks to use the word, "nigger" in their conversation, in their rap crap, on their clothing, etc. but let a White even hint at it and they're ready to kill him.

    If it's such a derogatory term, it shouldn't be okay for anyone to use it in public. If it's not, then quit making such a big deal out of it.

    Phuk Leftist PC.
    "Quid pro quo."
    If we can't call them "niggers/niggas" (whatever), then they should not be allowed to call us "rednecks/crackers/honkeys" (again - whatever).
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    Keep dreaming boy.....
    While no one ever listens to me,
    I am constantly being told to be quiet.

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    be the heat..

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    Quote Originally Posted by LAGC View Post
    Bill Maher and Milo Yiannopoulos Find Common Ground

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/a...nnopoulos.html
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    I'd like to hurt Bill Maher.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jet3534 View Post
    Dear Abby,

    I am a white man. Is it socially acceptable for me to use the word "Wigger" to describe another white man?
    Yes, especially when they dress like eminenema. When they drive past you with their thumping wigger music coming from their trunk, you know it's a wigger. They even have a website!
    http://www.wiggaz.com/index.php




    wiggaz!
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    Quote Originally Posted by LAGC View Post
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/a...word.html?_r=0

    (1) HAHAHA! What a bunch of thin-skinned panty-waists getting worked up over a white man using the n-word in that context.

    (2) (Check out the comments, and outrage over on forums like DU.)

    It's a JOKE. He's a COMEDIAN. Settle the fuck down, you easily-triggered snowflakes. You should know Bill Maher is hardly one to be PC.

    Some on the left are still pissed at him because he keeps inviting rabid right-wingers like Milo and Coulter on his show, and actually gives them a fair shake.

    (3) Guess it really sucks that some liberals actually care about free speech, speaking their minds, and not giving a damn who gets offended, eh?

    (1) There are two kinds of "brown skin people".

    There are the decent, educated, two parent family, non pseudo-ghetto-accent speaking people which are usually referred to as "blacks". Nobody minds those one bit.

    Then there are the grade school dropout, gang member, pants falling down, violent, ghetto talking, looting, rioting trash who sit around all day and do nothing but hate whites, eat watermelon, post pictures of themselves with a "chopper" (a Kalashnikov) on social media and wait for their next welfare check to arrive. THESE are referred to as "niggers". These are the ones who cause all the trouble.

    I'll never use the "N word". I'll say it like it is: FUCKING NIGGERS. And, I'll just as easily call a white bum "trailer trash" or a "cracker". I'm an equal opportunity racist.

    (2) Reading your posts is difficult enough. Why would anyone here go on DU to read more of this kind of crap?

    (3) You're both right and wrong. "Liberals" don't care about free speech (unless it's THEIR speech - everyone else should be silenced). But true, they don't give a damn who is offended by them (again, as long as it's not THEM getting offended).


    Socialist liberals are a bunch of sick minded, mentally dysfunctional beings that do nothing other than eat our food, breathe our air and live to complain about everything.

    Typical trash that spews from liberals:

    "Only 58 gender choices? I'm offended... there needs to be MORE!"
    "You shouldn't own a gun - you've got no right to protect yourself against thugs"
    "Trump just found the cure for cancer... DAMN HIM now thousands of oncologists are out of work!"
    "I support transgender, fluid gender, tri-sexual babysitters ... but not to watch MY kids!"
    "That 6 foot 5, 220 pound, 20 year old black baby teen shouldn't have been shot by that horrible over-privileged white male... all he wanted to do was rape the guy's wife and steal his car... is that worth being killed over?"
    "How DARE you have an opinion? Only I can have an opinion. Now I'm offended. And triggered."
    "YOU can't have a gun. You may shoot one of my armed guards."

    Feel free to add to the list...
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    Quote Originally Posted by alismith View Post
    Hypocrisy runs deep in the Leftist psyche.

    It's perfectly fine for blacks to use the word, "nigger" in their conversation, in their rap crap, on their clothing, etc. but let a White even hint at it and they're ready to kill him.

    If it's such a derogatory term, it shouldn't be okay for anyone to use it in public. If it's not, then quit making such a big deal out of it.

    Phuk Leftist PC.
    Thug brown skin people (niggers, not to be confused with blacks) can go on TV and call for whites to be exterminated and state that "we need the streets to run with the blood of white people" and that's OK.

    But some white guy uses the "N word" once in a comedy setting as a joke and all hell breaks loose. I'm surprised there aren't riots and burning cars...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TEN-32 View Post
    I'd like to hurt Bill Maher.
    To be fair, I think he has that impression on a lot of folks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Krupski View Post

    But some white guy uses the "N word" once in a comedy setting as a joke and all hell breaks loose. I'm surprised there aren't riots and burning cars...

    Oh I'll bet money that if he wasn't a left-winger there would be.
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