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>Which shows her "racist" tweets, and shows how they're only really racist if you strip away all context for them.

Can you think of a context in which it's OK for a white/asian person to use the "N-word"?




... many? Any meta discussion of the term; when providing a verbatim transcript of what someone said; when enumerating racial terms; historical context; etc etc.

What's your point, exactly?


So, when Sarah Jeong was using racial slurs for white people, was it in "verbatim transcript" or was she "enumerating racial terms"?


> was using racial slurs for white people

I've put some effort into trying to find these, and come up short. I was kinda hoping she'd said "honky" or something. Here's what I was able to find:

https://twitter.com/GarbageHuman_/status/1024894655253495808...

I am phenomenally interested to learn what the racial slurs for white people! Let's have them!

PS: I'm a white male. I've lived about half my life in two Black-majority countries and one Asian-majority country. I literally don't think I've ever had a racial slur used against me.




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