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They may even call themselves that sometimes among themselves. But if a white person uses it against them, given the history behind it, they find it offensive.
Is that reasonable? I think so.
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I agree with everything you said to some degree. Here is what I think fuels the double standard argument.
While your reasons maybe valid for the older generations, the new generations have no reason except to perpetrate the "victim" mentality. Sometimes use the N word among themselves??? Have you listened to any rap songs lately? Listened to any of the thug, gangsta wannabee punks? They purposefully preserve the term (by using it among themselves) as a means of justifying their actions when someone else uses it because "they" were victims of the white man.
You want to talk victims. How about Jew's. They were victims in Germany, but how many of them have preserved some pet slur and now use it as a description of themselves? I am 1/2 Jewish and don't know any.