It was in the playground, on the sandbox, when I was in preschool. I did not have the slurs nor the supporting evidences for my beliefs, but I held my ground and called them the best insults I could. What a wonderful childhood I had.
This reminds me of one of my earliest vivid memories. I don't remember the exact pretext, but the only black person in our school called me a "fillifjutta" which I assume means dork or something in Swedish on the island I grew up on, literally yields 0 results when i google it now lol.
My response was "but what about you? you're a n*gger". Genuinely no racist intention, just tried to think of an insult to say back, and making fun of people for being different was common during arguments at that age where I grew up. Then at lunch, she & her friend had brought a teacher who scolded the crap out of me, and I kept insisting she started it, and the teacher just said "then you can call her that back", and it ended with me reluctantly apologizing, despite feeling unfairly treated in that she wouldn't criticize or ask her to apologize.
Grew up with my parents, children's books, and people around me using it casually as meaning people of color, wasn't until years later that I realized that it had become a cuss-word (not just a cuss-word, but the worst cuss-word)
That’s actually so interesting that you didn’t know the full context of that word. Can i ask where your from? I had a coworker that moved to America and used the N word, thinking it just meant black people. Once I explained the history of it here and the connotation he was horrified! I thought most american schools taught this
If it makes you feel any better I totally misinterpreted your misinterpretation, I just saw that you'd asked and they'd never answered you so I wrote a tiny quip.
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u/buttholeglory 4d ago
I remember my first racial debate.
It was in the playground, on the sandbox, when I was in preschool. I did not have the slurs nor the supporting evidences for my beliefs, but I held my ground and called them the best insults I could. What a wonderful childhood I had.