it would be like using NAACP in a black newspaper.

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“The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is the largest LGBT civil rights advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States.

HRC is an umbrella group of two separate nonprofit organizations and a political action committee ... the HRC Foundation and the HRC Political Action Committee ...

HRC's work is supported by three boards: the Board of Directors; the HRC Foundation Board; and the Board of Governors ...

... the HRC Foundation (HRCF) was formed as a non-profit organization.

In 1992, HRC endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, Bill Clinton.

etc, etc, etc

see link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Campaign

....interesting, to say the least.

This article was written of us gay folk, and in that context WE know what HRC means. It was not written for members of DU or the straight community who use that acronym for Hillary Clinton.

their is absolutely no justification for using racial slurs, and she recognized that herself, and resigned immediately.

Not only did she do the right thing by resigning, but the Foundation took the correct action444

Words have consequences.

I am white.

When I was 10 years old I remember my best friend used the N word. I told him that that was not right and that if he ever used that again we could not be friends.

we remained best friends for years after that


In school I remember taking abuse from bullies for not saying certain words like the p word


There are certain words that, as Griffin writes. “It is impact of the word that matters. It is simply never acceptable for that word to be said by an employee in the workplace, period.”

If a 10 year old from the South knows that ... its not that hard!

And for someone from HRC? Sheeesh!

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If you are recalling a literary work, or directly quoting a racist or racist work--USE IT!

Why?

Because changing it to N-word causes an ever so slight decoding mechanism to translate the word, and that brief mental switch causes the mind to not find shock in the term. If you use the N-word straight up, the mind does not have to decode it and the shock level remains. Using the N-word often masks the original offender's deeds and provides cover for them.

So, if David Duke says it, you don't substitute 'N-word' in it's place, because that masks his words and provides cover.

Oh, and this was a continuing education degree, and those university courses were less than 2 years ago.

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I understand that, having taught political science at the college level. I would not quibble with that academic usage in a quotation - where it is necessary to convey the shock to others from it's original use. However, I would not deduct for the "N-word" usage from any student who felt that to be the appropriate usage. It would have a lot to do with the meaning of the original author or user.

However, that is not usually what is at issue in the common "street" use of the term today.



While I see and grant your point, I still stand by my query: Why is this so hard for everybody?