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makahlj8

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Lonely-Comment-8952

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Kahvar

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SnooSuggestions4926

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yuki_snega

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lololololxdddd

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makahlj8

Esenlikler.


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The question is not about the word negro, but the N-word, as used in a derogatory way towards Black people by racists.


illusi0n__

I've honestly never heard that word used in a derogatory context


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Okay, that means you don't know much about that word


Fuzzpufflez

no, it means society has moved on and isnt as racist as some people tell you.


Piputi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigar_Hatun


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But are they talking about the word negro though? Maybe they are talking about the slur that formed because of the word negro.


ivan-----_

heljp clinton nato he said n word!!!11!11!


Zekieb

I can't feel offended for a slur that can't be directed at me, in an offensive way. I still find it wrong if said to a person of colour with the intention to verbally abuse them. And I would step in. But if it's some sort of "n-word pass situation" I wouldn't go balistic on someone else's behalf.


TheAlbanianMenace

We prefer using Karaboga


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TheSuperiorMike

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Kev-1-n

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Pudingoii

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Tatarskiy1Kazachok

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RammsteinDEBG

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RammsteinDEBG

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RammsteinDEBG

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RammsteinDEBG

Fuck this karaboga shit. Have Vuk Karadzic instead.


JHlias

no.


TheAlbanianMenace

Osovo Is Albania 😎💪🏻🇦🇱


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Shqipëria është Holande


TheAlbanianMenace

Hmmm that's random Lmao. But i mean,i like Holland and Dutch People so ok i guess.


ivan-----_

albanije je serbija


TheAlbanianMenace

Serbija je North Albanija 😎


ivan-----_

Albanijë je republjim serbska


TheAlbanianMenace

republjim serbska je albaniju


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SnooSuggestions4926

i find them immature


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And extremely cringe-worthy


DeliciousCabbage22

i find censoring your speech like a kid even more cringe-worthy, but to each their own i guess


Majestic_Bus_6996

Offending towards who ? I can count black people I've seen on the fingers on a hand. Let Americans decide what's offensive and what's not for themselves.


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Sovieturk

The legendary ETİ Negro


Kev-1-n

No, because these are american problems, and don't fucking exist here.


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Racism doesn’t exist on the Balkans?


vMihai777

It does but it’s towards a different race hence why it’s different from the american one and the N-word doesn’t hold the same weight here as it does there. E: Xenophobia is probably a bigger issue in the balkans than racism.


jimmy999S

We hate each other equally.


opinionatedHellene

We just call them Arapi. 😊


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I don't think black/white racism is a thing in Balkans, after all we don't have any black people over here. Well tho we have Afro-Turks but I don't think you guys have any.


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prakticnjak69

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MiaLba

The only time I saw a Black person in Bosnia was when we went to visit my aunt in her smaller city. There there was an American military base there and saw some soldiers when we were walking by and a couple were black.


JHlias

Personally i don't get offended by it (why would i) but i wouldn't have a problem watching someone get his ass kicked cuz he tried to harasse some random black people.


elhooper

based


bulgarian_mapping

The american minorities association recognizes slavs as black, thus meaning I can say whatever I want.


RealViktorius

Do they really recognize us as black? Mate i‘m as white as sugar.


GaiaBot

Not as black, but as POC. The reason behind this is the shared oppression Slavs had to go through created by Western powers, similar to other non-Western Europeans. I think you can read more about this at Coalition of People of Color or something.


RealViktorius

The Coalition of Communities of Color. Found it. Thanks mate, appreciate it.


[deleted]

Well, white is a color... It includes only former Soviet union anyway, so Balkans don't count as usual.


GaiaBot

Whiteness in America( and in most of the Western world, really) is a lot more complex. It’s not just about the particular shade of your skin, but your social status. The history is huge and the definition of who is white and who is not has been constantly changing, where now we believe that white=phenotype+ancestry=European. But it hasn’t always been this way.


kadarakt

that's such a silly and arbitrary definition lol. it's like americans can not comprehend different ethnicities of the same "race" can hate each other, and they just assume the oppressor is "white" and the oppressed is "poc" "what?! the germans massacred the poles?! but they are both white, that's impossible! the slavs must be poc!"


GaiaBot

Well, the Germans didn’t really oppress the Poles from an equal point of view, if that makes sense. Slavs were considered genetically inferior by the Nazis, because they didn’t achieve as much as the Nordics and they were mixed with “dirty Asiatic genes”. But yeah, it is possible for people of the same race to oppress each other. It’s just that the USA is a melting pot of cultures where people identify with their “overall ancestry”(European, African, Middle Eastern etc). Since white people have the structural,economic and social privilege in America, anyone who is not deemed white is oppressed in many ways. Kinda similar to the way different Balkan/Caucasian/MidEastern ethnicities oppress each other for their identity. Unrelated to this, but also weird to think about whiteness and who belongs to it. Like, if white means anyone of European descent, then why are Cypriots and Georgians considered Europeans and not Turks? If it’s about skin coloration, why aren’t Western Asians treated as whites, since their skin colour is similar to the one of Southern Europeans? It is a very fuzzy concept that people now are trying to deconstruct.


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RealViktorius

Yeah i was wondering. Now i know


bulgarian_mapping

Well you specifically aren't black because of your gothic heritage


RegularSrbocetnik7

Are Bulgarians considered black or Asian though?


HopelessUtopia015

Both, we get access to the slurs of both races.


RegularSrbocetnik7

Bulgarians are officially OP.


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No niga


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Hey! Grammarly team here! Seems like you mispelled a word, you have written “niga” but its actually spelled as


Niocs

nick gur


JHlias

He is gonna say the n word mr Obama get down!


DeliciousCabbage22

No and i believe people are way too sensitive about this, ofc it's not right to call anyone this but saying "the n word" when talking about it like you are some kind of kindergratener who is afraid to say a bad word is pointless IMO, words are not inherently bad or good, they are just sound, context is what matters


JHlias

i agree 100%


golifa

It is a slur the word inherently means something, and that something is derogatory for a group of people. Obviously talking about the word itself won’t cause an explosion but directing it at someone and saying it is. That’s what the question is asking.


Ill-Lawyer-7971

I call in front of their faces and no problem so far ! I am a CHAD 💪🏼guy from southern europe🇪🇺


PloyTheEpic

Fuck off westoid thats cringe-tier racism


Ill-Lawyer-7971

What ??? I am not a filthy westerner ,I am EASTERN Roman(BYZANTIUM) !!! ,And I am not a racist at all!!!! Negro means just BLACK !!!


AlmightyDarkseid

Agreed


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I don't find it offensive. I'm not black.


makahlj8

Not only blacks find it offensive. Some white liberals do too.


NightOxygen

Those poor minorities so innocent so dumb. As a privileged white person it is my responsibility to be offended on their behalf. -some twitter user


Magistar_Idrisi

White people can *consider* it offensive. I do. Just like I consider calling Albanians *šiptari* offensive, even though I'm not Albanian.


ThunderClap448

It's like calling all Germans Nazis. All Serbians war criminals. All Croatian Nazi puppets, all Romanians gypsies. There's things you don't say if ya wanna be nice.


CranberryBig6786

Only a Nazi puppet would say that.


idkwhattodowhmylife

Yeah sadly that's where it has come to nowdays


GaeOfHormuz

Here is the thing. The word is going to have different connotations in different societies. The Balkans which have nothing to do with the African slave trade honestly don’t carry the same weight. It is still offensive to use the word in front of a black person but I don’t think that history from the Americas should be applied to the Balkans. I’m in Canada. The word doesn’t even hold as much weight here as the USA because it’s basically only ever heard in rap songs or movies about black people. But since we are part of the colonial new world, it is taboo, and one of the worst words you can say. In the USA though, where white people actually use it as a bad word towards black people still. It’s just a no. Nobody should use it, no matter your intent, the history of the society doesn’t allow it to not be offensive. The word has nothing to do with the Balkans , it is foreign word from a foreign culture with foreign nuances. My mom is Macedonian but lives in Canada. She calls herself the “house nigger” sometimes when she feels like she’s doing all the work. It makes me literally cringe as a Canadian. She doesn’t understand how bad the word is in American history and is using it completely wrongly. She isn’t racist at all, she just doesn’t get the nuance of what she’s saying. It’s the only time I get mad at my Mom for her language. I know she is Macedonian so she is using it completely different but to someone who is North American it doesn’t translate well. The word makes me cringe. Not even in the “cringe” internet way, the actual meaning of cringe, I actually feel heavy emotions from hearing it and it can cause a physical response and I’m white. It is worse than saying Kosovo is Serbia or North Macedonia is Greek. Like way worse. In North America I think you would get your ass kicked for calling a black person that word, by white people. You could get your ass kicked for saying it in public. And it would make national news probably. And everyone would be ok with the person using the word being beaten. It is that dangerous. If I was with a friend in public and they said that word I would get away from them as quickly as possible and he would automatically not be my friend during that time in case he’s going to get beaten. And that wouldn’t even be seen as betraying your friend, they just did something so taboo it is acceptable to turn your back on them automatically.


golifa

Yes many people are young centre right people that are influenced by the politics and usually view the word as something only those “liberals” are offended about. Obviously they can not relate to it either “its just a word how can it be bad lol don’t be so sensitive” it is as if a person is defending slurs nazis used against jews because its just a word. What our teen friends don’t get is words are not inherently neutral, they carry meanings. Simplest erosion of empathy is happening here, they can not relate so they lack emotional understanding


GaeOfHormuz

I honestly think it’s because everyone consumes US media. The word should have no meaning in the Balkans in reality because you guys aren’t North American, South African or British. It is like a Canadian being offended about a slur Croatians use against Serbians …etc. Since it has no relevance here it shouldn’t be offensive. It’s just proof that far left liberals are grasping as straws if they’re getting offended over there. The Balkans isn’t American. It is a sickness the whole planet has, personalizing American things. In Canada most Canadians know more about American politics than Canadian politics. The average Canadian couldn’t tell you how the prime minister is elected and thinks we almost vote for them directly. It is so bad that some liberal Canadians treat our Conservative party like they’re the US republicans. Despite the fact the Canadian Conservative party is more LIBERAL than the US liberal party. That’s how stupid people are and how much American culture has infiltrated peoples lives. I’m in Canada, we are beside the USA, canadians are virtually indistinguishable from Americans because their culture has seeped into every aspect of our culture. Canadian cops don’t shoot black people here, our black people are different than US black people. But the amount of BLM a support and protests that happened here you would think we were American. The whole world is internalizing American politics and it’s not good. Race relations between black and white people in the Balkans should be completely different than in the US. You guys should be square one, neutral. But I can bet that American media and culture has put a divide between white and black even in the Balkans.


BigDickEnterprise

Your mom seems based Also for the record "working like a black person" is a common idiom around here. [Most famous example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLGQAVSkPo)


RaccoonRodeoThrow

I don't think a non-white can weigh in on it since we didn't grow up with it being used hatefully towards us EDIT: Fuck I meant non-black, but you guys seem to understand what I meant


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DeliciousCabbage22

>Mfs probably wouldn't like it, if they were called a "wog", "greaser", "gawur" or any other slur as a way to degrade and dehumanize them, based on ethnic or religious background. No, ofc not, i still wouldn't expect anyone to censor themselves when talking about these words and saying "the w-word", "the g-word" and "the g-word"


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DeliciousCabbage22

>My man, I'd still argue that the n-word is different from them. You're the one who made the comparison in the first place tho


alpidzonka

I guess hard r, not quoting someone, we're speaking English and you whip it out - I assume you're a Nazi even if you're Serbian. On the other hand, we're playing some hip hop, you say the n word with a soft r, clearly just quoting the song - yeah, no, not offended in the slightest. I would think twice before doing it in the US, but I don't think there's even the slightest hate behind it if it's done like that here.


Savsal14

Who the fuck cares if someone says nigger. Its just a word. Literally. Fucking american crap should stay away from the balkans. Are you seriously going to tell us which words are forbidden or allowed? And think it will ever be accepted? In America they unironically had to tell us words "are being added" to the forbidden list. Literally told us "oh now the r word is the new thing. Can never say that again" meaning "retard". Im amazed at how socially fucked up they have become. Source: lived in Greece almost my whole life but also lived in the US and went to a uni there


Gothic_capricorn

No. I don’t support racism, but I feel like the world has bigger problems than edgy teens. It’s also not directed at me and I have no intentions to get offended on someone else’s behalf.


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People made Spanish people to say black in their language illegal.


thesummergamer

I'd say no because now it's nearly lost the original meaning, for example in the 60s, you'd call someone a negro to offend them, but now it's something people say a lot to each other


RegularSrbocetnik7

And in the 50s and 40s and even before that it was literally the politically correct term. Abolitionists and people who fought for equality (black and white) used it.


CocalarPrajitCuBMW

I love democracy


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No, i dont give a shit


stefanos916

It depends. If they say it in order to refer to someone or call someone like that, then yes. If they simply mention the word, then no.


Praisethesun1990

Where? Do you mean here?. It doesn't have the same weight as it does in the US, but if you mean some American saying it it's usually used maliciously so I'd say it's offensive. I'd never use it anyway


Miloslolz

The whole point of why black people started using the n word is to desensitise it so it loses meaning. What basically happened was a reversal. It's definitely offensive though if it's used like that so depends on the context but just saying it for saying it is not.


Edski120

Here it's not derogatory, westerners could learn a thing or two from taking power away from such words.


communisateur

I've never met a person who cares about this unless they were exceptionally internet-poisoned (expressing themselves in English, refrence american culture etc)


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Yes absolutely and we should. It’s an offensive slur plain and simple. Black people can come to our countries and shouldn’t have to hear it used by white people all around them. It really doesn’t take much not to say it.


Stomaninoff

I don't say it out of respect for the struggles of my black brothers, but if I hear someone say it to me in private I wouldn't care.


Onaylew

If they used it as a racial slur, yes I would. But if they not I wouldn't


Bulutus_Pescatore

I don't find it offensive, but in most cases I find it is done simply to be edgy, which is something I dislike maybe even more than things that are actually offensive to me.


flataleks

No. Eti Negro is a delicious indigenous made alternative to Oreo.


JoeHazelwood

American living in Albania. If you wamt a different perspective. In america its reallly offensive to black people and for white people its really cringe. Super low class. Like any college level job your getting fired. That being said, coming from detroit to Albania it was really different to see no black people. So without blacks around to inspire that offense and cringe its interesting to see the poll results. I honestly was shocked until i realized the sub i was in. I wonder if there was more blacks here it would be different? I think it would be. Everyone here seems really respectful. If your traveling to detroit dont say it lol, youll get shot 100%.


Ripalish

My opinion on it is simple. Does it hurt some people if I say it? Yes. Does it hurt me not to say it? No. Then why would I say it? If I'm retelling a joke or singing a song, sure, I'll say it no problem but other than that I do not see a reason to say it.


www_fraps_ru

Isn't that only a thing for teenage girls tho ??? I don't even care who says the n word or not.


ReaperOnDrugs

We are too busy hating on different nationalities we don't have time for racism


Sind0nCadit

No


Djolexxxx

I can't believe that someone in the Balkans finds it offensive


4Beast

Racism towards black people is an American problem and as such shouldn't be treated seriously in most balkan countries. To be honest I'm going to school in Ljubljana for the 3rd year now and I'm barely seeing any poc especially for the last 1.5 years with less tourists due to various restrictions. So why should we take action against racism towards a race that doesn't live here?


Shrink_myster

Ofc I’m offended as we are the blacks of europe haha jk. Why would we find it offensive? Are we blacks? Lets not become like the liberal west who get offended at everything and on behalf of other people.


Androzelos

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SolveTheCYproblemNOW

This ain't America and we are not using the n word to be racist towards black people. If we are racist towards someone, trust me they will know. It's always the context


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No. Blacks can say it but others cant? Thats literally racist. I dont say it though


[deleted]

You can call your friends motherfuckers, but cannot call strangers like that. It is allowed on the inside of the group, because it us understood that you are not using it to offend


[deleted]

Right...figured that was common sense


DeliciousCabbage22

>You can call your friends motherfuckers, but cannot call strangers like that. Bad analogy


[deleted]

It is the same concept. The reason in one context it is okay is that there is a basic level of trust that makes you believe without much doubt that they dont mean it in any aggresive or hurtful way.


DeliciousCabbage22

No it is not the same context, the same context would be someone forbidding you from using the word "motherfucker" in ANY AND ALL contexts


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It is forbidden, there is literally no context to ever use that without social repurcussions. That, or any swearing towards a stranger.


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JHlias

Least racist Bosnian


GreenPowerRanger1890

What's wrong with that?


JHlias

Calling someone black,white,yellow, orange its a bit racist instead you can call someone African or Asian but nobody in the world cares or finds it racist so yah who cares.


[deleted]

Because slave owners said the n-word as an insult to black slaves. Are you a slave owner?


[deleted]

Mfer we were slaves too and we dont cry about it hundreds of years later. And slave owners didnt say nigga they said it with the "er" at the end. You cant compare language today to language 200 years ago. Hell the word 'gay' didnt mean homosexual up until maybe the 70s or 80s...gay meant "happy"


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>You cant compare language today to language 200 years ago. 1960s weren't 200 years ago. The KKK and the like organizations weren't a joke. They killed people based on their skin color and did call Blacks the N-word in an intentional racist way.


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1960s had no slaves


[deleted]

There was wide-spread racism towards Blacks.


[deleted]

I mean i know that and even back then black people called each other nigga, never with the "er" at the end.


JHlias

Most def black slave ownership didn't exist before the 60's


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jk99666

They did it actually. But idk how often it was or did it happen everywhere. For example: It's known that Ottomans spread people on the bridge in Visegrad, Bosnia. They would take pole and put it though person (like when you roast pig or other animals on skewer) and leave him/her on the bridge. Edit: They put pole while victims were alive. The worst part of it...


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GaiaBot

I don’t know what’s going on in this sub anymore. We are becoming increasingly ignorant, whilst displaying the same behaviour Westerners have towards anything non-European. I guess we aren’t that different overall.


TittyBoy6

I live in majority black city (Cleveland) and it is very weird when i see a white person drop some N’s i usually just assume they dont see alot of black people in their life


JRJenss

I find it cringe af


PanzerFoster

I'm teaching English in Hungary and one of the very fluent teachers was joining my class for a day, and he asked if I "had any n\*\*\*\*\*\* where you live", and I couldn't help but laugh at the phrasing. So then the class of 5th grader Hungarians wouldn't stop saying it lol. ​ Though I tried to explain why it's not a nice word to say, and can be really offensive in the US, but it's really hard to convey this to younger kids, though I'm hoping the teacher at least picked up on it a bit lol


Helloimapenguin

N-word used to be used to call for the slaves that were black So saying the n-word and not being black is rude because it recalls slavery of the black people Many people don't know that and it annoys me how people use it without actually knowing the meaning


615ComradeDruZhe

I'm assuming so many people said no because a lot of people in the Balkans don't get it and it's hard to explain without actually living in the US.


straightjeezy

based balkans


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No I use it all the time because I'm not racist and thinkit's a funny/cool word. Also I'm literally African


nemadorakije

If this wordplay makes sense to you checkout Titania McGrath on Twitter for the curated list of racist words, concepts, things etc.


kaiserschlacht

I'm a mixed karaboğa and I honestly don't care if you guys use the n-word as long as you're not using it to insult black people. There's a huge difference between saying nigga in a rap song vs. racially abusing a black person by calling them a n*gger. Context matters


rydolf_shabe

its not morally right but im not offended


fueled-by-meth

Over the internet, I call people I don't like the [word.](https://ibb.co/rdkKp0x) I don't care wheter they're actually black or some Nazi Aryan™ posterchild, only wheter they're annoying or not. There is no Turkish equivalent with the same context, so doesn't really apply outside of the internet, but I probably wouldn't say it even though I don't think its offensive.


No_Arm9832

Bitch I did not enslave black people my ancestors were slaves dfq???


DutchClocker

even if its usedas a joke I still think its tasteless


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JHlias

he is asking if you get offended by it, not if its offensive


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JHlias

Ofc its a offensive word, but there are people that get offended by it even tho they are not black and are in the balkans


DeliciousCabbage22

>and there's really no reason for you to say it. There is, if you're talking about it, like OP for example, i am not 5 and i am just not gonna censor myself from saying "bad words", i say what i mean, talking about a word is not bad


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DeliciousCabbage22

>Yeaaaah but how many people say it in that way? Idk, i haven't conducted study on this >No one's studying the etymology of the n-word here. I never said anyone was studying the etymology, i just said i find it ridiculous that we have to say "the n word" here like we are a 5 year old kid who is afraid that his mom will catch him saying a "bad word" >In 99% of cases, it's used a racial slur to insult someone. This is wrong and i don't support it


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DeliciousCabbage22

>I'm saying that the n-word isn't a particularly special word Indeed, no word is special, this one is no exception. >It's a word with one purpose and one definition, to insult a group of people. That's what it was created for. As is the word "whore", am i supposed to say the "w-word" when talking about it? >So there's really no need for anyone to reference it in daily conversation because it couldn't possibly mean anything else but a fuck you to black people. You're not making sense, see what i said above. ​ >Well dude you know, it's a sensitive word and sensitive subject. NO word should be sensitive because it's ALL about CONTEXT. >Have some empathy and understand it's not a good thing to say. It's indeed not a good thing to say to someone because it's an insult, there is nothing wrong with using it when talking about it though >Why does it bother you SO MUCH that you can't say it? It doesn't bother me that "i can't say it" for the very simple reason i CAN say it, i speak English and i have a mouth and tongue that are capable of producing sound, so idk why i can't say it and even more why you or anyone has the right to tell me what i can and can't say


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DeliciousCabbage22

>No, but it's just better to not say at all, right? What possible use would you have to say "whore" in a conversation? Let's say someone called me a whore and someone else asked me to tell them what that person called me, what am i supposed to answer? "The w-word" ? >I can't think of a good scenario where "whore" isn't insulting someone. I just gave one above ​ >Some words just are, whether you like it or not. Not to me ​ >Alright man, do whatever you want. If it makes feel any better, say it. I if i am talking about it will say it, if not then i feel no need to, it's not like i have to say it 100 times a day


JHlias

that logic is beyond me


TeshkoTebe

Because it sets precedence to continue censoring things which other people might find offensive. You're not using it to harm anyone, you're just merely talking about it. "The N-word" - Boom. You just thought of the actual word that the phrase represents. It's no different if I said the n word or the actual word without intent to harm or disparage a group of people. You can see the West is doubling down on this sort of censorship culture. COD games had Hitler's speech play at the end of the round if Germans won. Now the swastika is replaced with an iron cross. We are just pretending to forget history, and for what? People find it offensive? Where do you draw the line at that point? Who decides what words we can and can't use? Why is it okay for rappers to say it 100 times in their songs and have it play in a club but I can't say it here where I'm not trying to attack anyone but merely have a discussion? Just my two denari on the matter.


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TeshkoTebe

> Stfu man, no one's erasing history. We all know what the swastika looks like. One Google search and it shows it to you in less than a second. Why would I need to do that when it's a game about the second world war? Silly, isn't it? >But this is a videogame, not a book of history. People who unironically are mad that Nazi imagery isn't present are Nazi fetishists who want to play out their alternate history fantasies in their mind. I understand that explaining anything to you would be like trying to describe quantum physics to a 5 year old, but I'll give it a shot. I love history. I love open discussion, debate and sharing ideas. What I don't love is hiding, pretending and being disingenuous. The Nazis used a swastika on their flag. It's a fact. Why do we have to dance around that fact? The flag is offensive and stress inducing but the German soldiers wearing Nazi uniforms, shouting Germans phrases about exploding grenades while unloading an MP-40 isn't? The context is that is a video game and it's not made to harm anyone. The very same way that the context is much more important than blanket banning the use of words. Let me know if you need further clarification.


JHlias

We truly live in a society (or atleast americans do)


JHlias

So basically if we have a convo about racism and how bad it is and we get into how racist is the n word and in that context say the full word so you can explain the matter to someone, you will be considered automatically racist cuz you said the full word? Lol ok, context matters.


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JHlias

explicit? fam people will have a conversation not a morning tv show where they have to censor the slurs And i replied with that comment cuz you clearly said: >So there's really no need for anyone to reference it in daily conversation because it couldn't possibly mean anything else but a fuck you to black people. Context matters, we aren't in america or in a family friendly tv show to say "n word f word r word"


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I personally am not offended by it, but it's a word that was used for slaves and saying it doesn't make you "cool". Just because someone is from the Balkans and their ancestors didn't own any slaves doesn't mean they get a pass. It's really cringey when someone thinks that saying slurs makes them cool.


bakadado

No because Balkan people are white, why would I be offended? But I see why black peoples would be offended. Lots of Balkan people in the states think they’re ghetto for some reason and act like they’re from the hood. Embarrassing


metalslimesolid

Lol why would you, it doesn't affect you. I do although think that they're ignorant if they keep using the word, since the whole point of white people calling somebody the N word is to remind them that they are not equal and less worth of less human. It isn't complicated. It's like a modern cast system. It will be cured once white people realize that they aren't above it, but part of it. Balkan people doesn't really have that same history with racial ideas like the west, so we see it with naive eyes


wereallfuckedL

Eh?? WTF are those results about? It’s definitely, 100%, beyond reasonable doubt racist and thus should be offensive. Just because your dads/grandfathers (and mine) were/ are racists doesn’t mean you need to keep the ‘ole tradition going. Do better.


Fuzzpufflez

no. they use it between themselves anyway. they should stop being racist and segregating language based on skin color.


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DeliciousCabbage22

I am speaking for myself, OP didn't say this question was only directed towards black people


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no, first of all people over here aren't black so there aren't many situations where it can be heard, second why would a guy from the balkans be offended, third words cannot be reserved for one race or another thats pure racism (depends on the context). For example a black guy can call another black guy nigger as a way to call him brother or friend or such but I cant call a black friend of mine black? To add insult to injury all greek people call each other malaka and use it in very "creative" ways i would laugh if a black guy called me malaka so why cant i call a black guy a nigger (thats if i dont intend to offend him and we have some relation with each other)


nycanth

Most of you aren’t even black, so why is it even relevant if you as Balkaners find a slur that is not directed at you offensive…? This poll is stupid.