indigenous-rising
asked:
you say that me telling you that using racial slurs is never okay is pushing my beliefs on you yet you find it okay for you to use racial slurs that affect an entire group of people? that doesn't make much sense. what you do is harming people. what i am doing doesn't hurt you.
answered:
that affect an entire group of people?
Oh my God, it’s like you have no brain cells. It doesn’t affect an entire group of people. It affects one, and whoever else chooses to be offended. Not every black person says “omg :’( She said nigger. I’m so sad” not every Hispanic says “She said spic :( That means me, and not the individual she was referring too:(“
It doesn’t have to hurt every single person from that group to make it harmful. Racial and ethnic slurs are dehumanizing. When a group or race is viewed as subhuman violence and oppression towards that group is inevitable.