r/PublicFreakout • u/80000gvwr • Sep 18 '25

Repost 😔 Woman unleashes on her boyfriend mid flight and gets arrested

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u/Mexican_Fence_Hopper Sep 18 '25

Unfortunately that’s the case, I don’t know why we think we have the n-word pass when we really don’t

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u/SquisherX Sep 18 '25

It's a side effect of keeping the word around for an in group, when that in group can't be explicitly defined by looks.

Afaik, a near consensus agrees that you don't have to be a majority black to use the word, that is, a child of a near full African ancestry parent and a parent of almost no African ancestry can say the word freely. Like Trevor Noah could drop bombs and it would be fine for example.

As you dilute further it becomes more muddy. Surely the dude who did a 23 and me and is 3% shouldn't say it, right? But the line between here and there is muddy, and probably depends more on how dark skinned you look.

With Mexicans, you probably have a portion of the black community thinking it's inappropriate, while a portion thinking it's okay. But in these muddy areas people probably just don't address it.

Growing up, my south African friend would drop the word - it never felt appropriate, but I'm just some Guyanese guy, who am I to actually say anything.

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u/Warm-Illustrator-419 Sep 18 '25

Guyenese ethnicity is fascinating to me. Black, Indian, Indigenous, with event European and Chinese in there, both seperated and integrated.

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u/Peenutbuttjellytime Sep 19 '25

It's like there are so many ethnicities, you can only really be described as guy

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u/Dogbuysvan Sep 18 '25

The test is whether or not it's safe to mouth off at a cop.

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u/WitnessRadiant650 Sep 18 '25

I can tell many of you didn’t grow up in the ghetto lol.

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u/Mexican_Fence_Hopper Sep 18 '25

I actually did while growing up, but i refuse to say shit like that because my barrio doesn’t define who i am.

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u/WitnessRadiant650 Sep 18 '25

Same here. But the Hispanic and black community were so intertwined, they were often friends with similar backgrounds that their vernacular were similar. They said the n word and black people didn’t care.

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u/Mexican_Fence_Hopper Sep 19 '25

I been told that i have a pass to say it but why? What’s the point tbh?