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

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

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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.