Pewdiepie using the N word during a stream

Here why you don t say it even at home:

One day you will do like pewdiepie and have a bad reflex and say it without thinking. You don t mean it but it come out of your mouth because of all those days saying it at home/with friends.

Sadly this day you are with a black guy who don t know you very well and he will fucking stomp you to death.

So yea better not learn your brain to say it casual way or you will get killed casual way.

about the word, yea it is fucking offensive for us black people. I know many dindu around me using it, I listen rap music with dindu saying it. I think it is a shame black men are using this word and they give bad example and help racist that way. The way rap music render this word too casual is bad for all of us.

I think Pewdiepie is not racist for sure but it was pretty stupid. Also I would like to ear the same outrage toward black men saying it.

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No, if hate is something you learn, then it's also something you can unlearn. Sadly, with the upbringing of wars in the middle east, racism towards white people rose up a lot (from the middle east towards whites) and the other way happened when those people started fighting back. Racism is something that is being promoted by the Trump administration sadly and it's causing a world wide rise in racism. Sad times when anger and hate takes over...

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faerwin wrote:

Normalization of racial slurs is the first step towards spreading racism.

The first step towards spreading racism is the establishment of (real or imagined) racial stereotypes. Although many on the authoritarian left would like to prevent this step by smashing the James Damores of the world, unfortunately for them statistics are real and actual differences in correlated traits between skin colors do exist from the perspective of trends and averages. For instance, the average US black person has an IQ about 18 points lower than the US white average.

The second step is logical fallacy in handling of real (or imagined) stereotypes — that is, overgeneralization. To continue the previous example, the common neo-nazi fallacy is "the stupidest white person is smarter than the smartest n____r." (Their horrible words, not mine.) Even if we accept IQ as an infallible measure of intelligence, about 15% of US black people have an IQ above the US white average, and about 15% of white people have an IQ below the US black average, assuming normal distribution and a deviation of just under 18 IQ points. Although some racist fallacies are more complicated than this, they all take the form of trying to replace proper testing of a trait (such as IQ or political party preference) with little more than a glance at someone's skin. The reality is: the truth of racial differences on a macro level does not make skin color a reliable indicator of statistically correlated traits on the micro level. This is the rational basis for rejection of racism.

Overgeneralization is only a fallacy when macro truths are applied to the micro level; macro truths are still macro truths. For instance, about 70% of first-generation (legal) Latino immigrants into the US support bigger government; do you honestly believe Democrats don't have a bias towards the immigration issue (and true Republicans a bias against)? The most dangerous racism is the sort that rejects the value and rights of individuals and instead views statistical outliers as collateral damage in an attempt to reshape society with the broad strokes of AoE attacks and friendly-fire splash damage. The defense against such dark collectivist pragmatism is the strengthening of the idealism of individualism within the greater culture (through righteous meme war). We must utterly reject the notion that the mistreatment, abuse and/or death of the aberrant minority is an acceptable price to pay if it brings us one step closer to the false hope of utopia.

Racial slurs? That is an effect of racism, not a cause. You aim to treat the symptom instead of the disease.