Community double standards

[noamnety]

11. I think there's always going to be a double standard

when comparing slurs against a dominant group and one which has been historically oppressed by that dominant group.

So the N word is, no question, not allowed. But calling a white person a cracker, eh, not socially cool maybe, but it isn't tied to the same kind of widespread horrific crimes, like lynchings or slavery of white people just because they are white.

Or gay slurs, they're always going to be worse than calling someone a breeder, because one carries historical weight - the baggage of being beaten down as a second class citizen, literally and figuratively - while the other is just kinda rude.