SLURS: Words You Must Earn

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.720 --> 00:00:07.160 Hey, kids, on today's show we're gonna talk about slurs. We'll go 2 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:11.800 over descriptors like fat, scrawny, retard, ginger, words that have previous 3 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:16.199 meetings, like Chink, tranny, faggott, baby, — words that sound bad, 4 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:21.559 like niggardly, retard, Dyke. Words do you must earn Nigga, 5 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:26.039 fags, spazz, bitch, tranny, Jew, bipolar, Queer, Gypsy. 6 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:32.560 Are you ready? Let's go? Hey, hey, Hey, what's 7 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:36.159 up? MOFOS? You see what I did there? I said the words 8 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:42.200 that we're going to talk about on top of a bed of upbeat montage music, 9 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.759 so that nobody can clip them and use them out of context, because 10 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:51.119 I wi won't be saying most of them throughout the podcast anyway, because I 11 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:56.719 don't say those words anyway. Welcome back. I am John Podcasting and, 12 00:00:56.920 --> 00:01:00.079 uh, I don't know who you are, but welcome. Thanks for showing 13 00:01:00.119 --> 00:01:04.400 up and UH, we're gonna overthink the idea of slurs. So this all 14 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:10.239 came about a couple of weeks ago when I was listening back to a previous 15 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:15.599 podcast I recorded. I was talking with my buddy Gary and we were talking 16 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:22.640 about the n word and splitting hairs on N I G G A whether that's 17 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:30.319 acceptable to say or not, or also whether Negro was acceptable to say. 18 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.200 Well, I've done a little research and I have some answers. So first, 19 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:42.760 the term Negro is apparently not a slur. It is simply old fashioned 20 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.079 Um so, and saying it I would be old fashioned. I don't say 21 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.719 it out loud. That's the one thing I might think to myself when I'm 22 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.560 driving in traffic or something. I don't think that was where I was found 23 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.359 odd when I was talking to Gary last time. I don't actually even think 24 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:01.480 those other words. I can't really envision them in my head unless I force 25 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:07.199 myself to. But to uh our point last week, when he says N 26 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:10.120 I G G A, I'm like now, you can't say that because you 27 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:15.840 didn't earn it, and he uh hypothetically takes the position that he can say 28 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:20.000 whatever he wants. Now, in reality, I have to update you. 29 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:23.159 I'm just the general nature of things Gary and I when we talk in real 30 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:25.960 life for the past twenty years. He's never said that word to me like 31 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:30.159 that ever, not even where we're drinking. He just I mean, it's 32 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:31.960 not the way we are, but he is the kind of person that will 33 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:37.479 be the devil's advocate and stand up for the rights of words he thinks are 34 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.159 fine, and I could imagine if he ever said it, it's probably in 35 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:46.280 the vein of like mclovin from Super Bad, something like that. Anyway, 36 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:52.120 but you know, it got me thinking generally about slur words and who can 37 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.919 say them and why certain people can say certain words and and that sort of 38 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:59.520 thing. So, uh, yeah, and I also it brought up the 39 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:04.199 question of what if you're just quoting a movie now to that point, obviously 40 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:07.840 it's probably not acceptable. So I probably won't be seeing Negro please very often. 41 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:12.840 I did dig up where I found that earworm. Uh, it's this 42 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:22.680 Negro please. That is the Great Terry Cruise from the Classic Movie White Chicks. 43 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:24.680 So, Um, I don't know if you've seen white chicks, but 44 00:03:24.879 --> 00:03:30.719 at the end of the movie he feels betrayed by a person that he thought 45 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:37.240 he thought was a white woman and it was in fact a black dude. 46 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:42.360 So the person was trying to explain themselves and uh, Terry just shot back 47 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.400 with that. So anyway, that's kind of an ear Worman I love Terry 48 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:47.479 crew. So if you want to watch him in a great movie, you 49 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.400 gotta go see sorry to bother you. That's such a great movie. I've 50 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:53.919 seen it like three times. I'm not gonna tell you what it's about. 51 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.879 There's a huge plot twist in it. Don't don't spoil it for yourself, 52 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:04.319 but go see Terry crews in sorry to bother you please. And the overall 53 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:10.319 conversation in my in my thought process lately has been a lot about identity and 54 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:14.240 labels and things like that, like on the last episode where I ranted about 55 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:17.720 what a podcaster is or what it's like. Not Actually a label, just 56 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:24.480 the activity that people do to further their actual label, like comedian or salesman 57 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:28.160 or whatever. Anyway, Um, it's because, like, I don't fit 58 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.839 in with podcasts. I don't feel like that's my identity. And then I 59 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.319 started thinking, well, what is my identity? What what hurts my feelings? 60 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:41.480 Because when it comes to slang, slurs and even old fashioned terms, 61 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:46.920 not very many things offend me until I started making a list and going through 62 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:53.000 words that offend others and then I started to discern some similarities, so I 63 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.199 just grouped them together. Here's what I found. There's one group of slurs 64 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.160 that are basically descriptors. They describe p Bowl in ways that really hurt the 65 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.959 people's feelings, fat, scrawny, et Cetera. I put ginger in this 66 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:11.759 category too because, well, red haired people can't help that they have red 67 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.319 hair, and that was one of the things about whether it was just a 68 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:21.800 slang term or a slur was not the necessarily the intention. Obviously the intention 69 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:26.480 and the tone and whether we talked about anger and things like that, but 70 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:30.399 it was more the slur came in when it was something you just can't change 71 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.519 about yourself. That's what makes slurs extra fucked up. So, with regards 72 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:39.199 to fat, yeah, I mean it's arguable with whether people can control that 73 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.519 or not. The same with Scrawny, basically body shaming from either direction, 74 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:47.199 and things like your hair color, especially if it's a slightly more unusual color 75 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:51.519 like red hair, and people call you ginger Um. And then there's other 76 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:57.519 words with previous meanings that have come on to take new words, like the 77 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.040 classic Faggot Um. It's really harsh word. I don't like to use that 78 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:03.040 one. Um Back in our grade school people say, Oh, it's a 79 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:06.319 bundle of sticks. Did you know? Fag just means a bundle of sticks 80 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:13.759 and it's still inappropriate to say back then regardless, because everyone knew what they 81 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.600 were trying to say. You know what I mean, like if if you 82 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:19.279 knew the word was meant to be harmful towards a group of people and you're 83 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:23.000 running around the playground, stay, it just means a bag, a bundle 84 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.040 of sticks, Um. And also, cigarette was the other thing. Hey, 85 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.920 you smoke a fag and parts of the world. By the way, 86 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:33.319 this show is from America, so this is all American perspective. I welcome 87 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:38.759 yours because I'd love to hear what slang and slur words are in your country. 88 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:42.680 So Um, because I think fag is still a common term and probably 89 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.720 not slur at all in the UK. And even words like baby, baby 90 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.519 used to just mean a baby, right. But now you call a woman 91 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:58.199 baby, that's misogynistic. Not, it's not monogamy, it's Misogyny, like 92 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:02.600 Mesoginy, m oogynistic, anti woman. You might think, Jeez, what 93 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.199 an Asshole, he's being so fucking overly sensitive. I don't know, am 94 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:12.879 I is calling a woman baby not misogynistic anyway. Baby already had a meaning, 95 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:17.199 just like Chink, tranny. Those are I mean obviously you get a 96 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:23.319 chink in your armor and every guy that works on cars knows that the transmission 97 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.879 is called the trainee. So there you go. You can be smoke in 98 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:31.839 a fag after you fix the Chink in your trainee and by some people standards 99 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:36.600 those are totally okay. That's a completely normal sentence. It's a little convoluted, 100 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:40.720 a little forced, but I mean you know, those words kind of 101 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:45.560 like what was that old fucking George Carlin bit? He was talking about Vaginas. 102 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:48.120 He said snatch box and Pussy. He said you could snatch that Pussy 103 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:51.199 and put it in a box. I'm running down the airplane. That Um, 104 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:55.000 that whole thing. You just put a bunch of words together that used 105 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.399 to be in other things. Are they slurs now? I don't know. 106 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:03.439 Are they inappropriate? No, I've found two interesting words. Well, dyke 107 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.000 is kind of one. Not so much because, well, dike is a 108 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.439 multi level contextual word, because some people would like to use it and they 109 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.279 claim it as a as a word of strength, and they reclaim it and 110 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:16.639 that sort of thing. Dyke also means simply like a damned that olds water 111 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:24.399 back and dyke is also used derisively by women, haters and and homophobes against, 112 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:31.079 you know, Dyke's lesbians. That's a weird one or or I don't 113 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:33.639 know if it's a weird one or just a very complex word for being such 114 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:39.279 a short word. I like to look at it and I like dykes who 115 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.960 claimed to be dykes. I don't say that word myself because it doesn't it 116 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:48.840 just doesn't have a good vibe coming out of a big white dude. Now 117 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.960 the other one, niggardly, is interesting. A congressman, a black congressman, 118 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:58.240 said this improper context back in the day and he got run out of 119 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:03.639 town, maybe out fully out of time, but he got a public lashing, 120 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.799 let's say so. NIGGARDLY IT'S SPELLED N I G G A R D 121 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:13.720 L Y. it's root is Swedish Nig Art n Y G A R T. 122 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:18.919 It just means cheap Um. Yeah, it sounds too much like other 123 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.320 words, so I'm not saying it. Are you gonna say it? Nope, 124 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:28.080 and UH. The other one is retard, an Italian word for Retardando, 125 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:33.000 which just means slow down. Anybody that's ever played in band knows when 126 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.759 we see retard used, that's where the song starts. To slow down. 127 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:37.919 It's usually at the end, when you're about to finish, at the tempo 128 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:43.200 just na Nah like that. That's Ritardando, or retard, and it says 129 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:48.879 Literally Retard on the music sheet and we all used to think it was funny 130 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:54.440 in fifth grade when you look at the music and it says it retard Um. 131 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:56.559 But you know, we're fifth grade and we grew out of it. 132 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:01.320 And again, words we just don't say now because, UH, they've lost 133 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:07.080 their luster for any positive meaning and uh, the negative side effects, which 134 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:13.879 is not worth it. Man. Here's the words that are my favorite ones, 135 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:16.919 obviously the one we talked about last week, and I G G A. 136 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.080 I'm not gonna say that one again out loud. Uh F A G. 137 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.360 We've said that one enough already. Spas, okay, see, I 138 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:30.559 say spas because I have a D H D. I've suffered from H D 139 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:35.519 H D. I've been called a spas derisive Lee from adults and other kids, 140 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:39.279 and I choose to take that word back. I am a spas. 141 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.360 I have no problem, uh, you know, claiming that or standing up 142 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.480 for it, and I like the word. It's nice, it's shorts, 143 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.000 it's, you know, short for spastic. I think, UM, some 144 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.840 people with other brain conditions, like epilepsy in particular, might take a different 145 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.519 offense because they were called spas for different reasons, and I understand that. 146 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:03.200 So I've sleep as a person claiming spas under the A D H D flag. 147 00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:09.240 I'm not going to call somebody with epilepsy a spas because I haven't earned 148 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:13.320 that kind of spas you find you follow this. I haven't earned the spas 149 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:18.559 that epileptic has and they haven't earned the spas that a hyperactive person has to 150 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:22.399 deal with. Gotcha. Same with bitch. I don't say that word a 151 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.559 lot. Wait, I don't say bitch, I don't like it. I 152 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:31.399 say bitching like it's always bitching, which is, you know, pretty close. 153 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.279 If you'RE gonna say if if bitch is a misogynistic then bitching kind of 154 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.120 is too. But I like bitching like Rad Dude. That's fucking bitching. 155 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:43.720 I do say that once in a while, probably way more than a grown 156 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.480 man should, but that's my era, that was my programming. I like 157 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:52.519 it. No reason to stop outside of the repair shop or outside of the 158 00:11:52.519 --> 00:11:56.679 automotive repair shop. Yeah, you can't say tranny. You haven't earned that 159 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:03.919 if you have been made fun of for being transgender, you can use it 160 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.480 all you want. You can call your friends that, do what you want 161 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.840 within your community. You can decide amongst yourselves is it appropriate or not. 162 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.000 I'm not from that community, so I don't say it. And if you're 163 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:18.480 not in a repair shop talking about, you know, the moving parts of 164 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:20.879 your car, you don't have a really reason to say it either. Like 165 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.399 who the Funk am I the word police? No, I'm just trying to 166 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:28.960 say here's a kinder, nicer way to go through life and be more, 167 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.840 you know, sensitive to other people's needs without having to get all confused about 168 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:41.080 it. Here's a weird one. Jew Now, my ex was Jewish, 169 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.639 her mom's Jewish. Therefore my kids are Jewish, but I still have a 170 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.200 hard time saying the word Jew. I have a hard time saying she's a 171 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:56.120 Jew because it just sounds like saying it that way if you're not Jewish sounds 172 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.200 kind of like you're trying to slur it into existence, like create some negative 173 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.519 side effects. And I've heard people mention, quote unquote, the Jews when 174 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.759 they talk about people that are cheap or stingy. So I put you on 175 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:13.240 this list on words you must earn. You can't run around calling somebody a 176 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.919 Jew unless you have suffered as a Jew. Oh and this one's for all 177 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.279 my bipolar people. Is Bipolar? Of course, fucking bipolar. So many 178 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.159 people throw this word around the weather. So bipolar, or just any anything 179 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:30.840 that goes from one extreme to the to the other, they call that bipolar. 180 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.559 And Man, if you have suffered from a mood disorder like bipolar, 181 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.080 Holy Moly, you get to own that word. Say It all you want 182 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:45.200 for whatever reason, but don't assume other people have it. And UH, 183 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.000 for Fox Sake, if you don't have bipolar disorder, if you haven't been 184 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.440 diagnosed with this from a doctor or two or three, then fucking stop saying 185 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:54.919 the word bipolar out of context, would you please, for Fox Sake? 186 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:58.639 Next on the list here. I've only got a couple more of these. 187 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:03.840 Uh, is gypsy. I'm not sure the status of Gypsy right now. 188 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.720 I know some people like it. They claim it right. That's a a 189 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:13.080 term of pride for some folks. It's also where the term jip comes from, 190 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.919 like ripping people off and that sort of thing. So generally speaking, 191 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.399 you don't say Gypsy because of that. You might refer to an old gypsy 192 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:28.360 in a movie, but that's still a stereotype character. And you know, 193 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:31.720 there you go. Here's the really cool one. This I like this one 194 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:37.600 a lot. It's queer. So you know an LGBT Q. Often you'll 195 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:41.399 see Q. Right, Q is Queer. But there's two factions, right, 196 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.600 and this kind of goes for all of these slurs, having two factions 197 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.720 with Queer. There was one faction. It's like no, no, that's 198 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.799 we don't want to say that word. That's that's not tasteful. And the 199 00:14:54.919 --> 00:15:00.000 more militant homosexuals were like no, we like Queer Queers, fucking awesome squeers 200 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.279 what we are. Plus some of us aren't actually like gay one way or 201 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.759 the there's there's more sexually fluid in any direction and they're just like queer. 202 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:16.519 And the other factions said, okay, Q can stand for questioning, and 203 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.399 then the more militant factions said sure, so it'll be q, Q, 204 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.759 Queer and questions. So they insisted on breaking queer free. And I remember 205 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.879 this growing up in the San Francisco Bay area as a child in the eighties, 206 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.799 that there was a group of protesters, activists called act up, the 207 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.480 Upside Down Pink Triangle folks, and uh they would march around the shopping mall 208 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.600 saying we're here, we're queer. Get used to it. So ever since 209 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:45.039 I saw that, that left a big impression on me that, oh, 210 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:48.840 queer is okay for them, like those are my people, like ruckus razors, 211 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.240 people raising a rumpus to get their voice heard. And UH, they 212 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:56.080 they want to be called Queer. You know, Mama Call Him Clay, 213 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.240 I call him clay Um, but whatever, okay. So I think that's 214 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.799 just fascinated to me. They're so insistent. They just put two queues on 215 00:16:03.799 --> 00:16:08.039 the end of that motherfucker, LB G T Q Q, Queer and questioning. 216 00:16:08.720 --> 00:16:12.600 Alright. So lastly, just to kind of wrap it up, to 217 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:22.960 think it's okay to quote slurs from movies, particularly like I know a lot 218 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.759 of dudes that love Quentin, Tarantino, self included, but I don't go 219 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.360 around quoting dead end word storage scenes from pulp fiction, do you feel me? 220 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.279 And I don't think that's appropriate. Do you think? And that kind 221 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:38.440 of brings me full circle back to the Terry crews quote. So that's why 222 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:42.559 I'm gonna stop saying it. It's not appropriate that I would quote the dead 223 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:48.360 end word storage scene from pulp fiction and therefore I'm not going to quote the 224 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:56.480 ending scene from white chicks and say the other word. please. Cool. 225 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.840 But now what? Okay, one step. What if he says it? 226 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.480 If I just put it on the soundboard and it just says can I do 227 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.480 that? No, I'm just playing. So Um now that's all I got. 228 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.920 So my whole point is really we should try to be kinder. I 229 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:15.119 know I do. I work on it every day and I started from a 230 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:21.000 really liberal place that. But I just don't see any problem with like trying 231 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:23.759 to be kinder. Like if, no matter what you've been in life, 232 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:26.400 someone's made fun of you, right, you had to have been made fun 233 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.559 of. Look at you. Someone's made fun of you and for whatever it 234 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.680 is, you couldn't change it. And that's really fucked up, I think, 235 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:37.720 because I've been made fun of things I just can't change, which is 236 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:40.519 really weird because you look at me it's like it looks like a normal dude, 237 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:42.599 but yeah, normal on the outside, but when you can't change it 238 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:47.279 in your brain, on the inside, and Uh, other people just don't 239 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:49.640 get you. They start making fun of you and then you just start moving 240 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:55.119 getting kicked out of classes. Dude, I went to twelve schools between kindergarten 241 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:57.720 and twelfth grade, so a school a year on average. Always the new 242 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:03.119 kid, always just some fuckory, just crazy. So it's important too. 243 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:07.640 If you're not at least gonna include people, don't slur them, and if 244 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:11.200 you're not sure, don't slur them. You know what I mean. If 245 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:15.000 you haven't earned it, if no one's called you that name, uh, 246 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.799 in a way that hurts you in a real way. If you're a white 247 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:22.839 person and someone calls you the N word, shouldn't really hurt your feelings. 248 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:26.720 Strangely, being called the packer wood doesn't really hurt my feelings either, because 249 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:30.559 I just don't I don't identify that way. But you get what I'm saying. 250 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.759 If you haven't been offended in that way, just let it go. 251 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:37.839 Stop using it to so many people say, well, they're just words, 252 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.759 they're just words. Words are the most powerful shit ever in human history. 253 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:48.319 Words created weapons, words created the bombs world, you know, words created 254 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:53.079 borders, words created religion. So do people blow off words? That's just 255 00:18:53.319 --> 00:18:56.400 idiocy. Words are the most important ship. In fact, words. That 256 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.440 the only thing that makes us different from the animals. Once we became fictive, 257 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:06.559 once humans learned to lie, that's when ship changed. Before, when 258 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:08.720 humans were just drawn and point at rocks, going yeah, rock, rock, 259 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:14.480 well, one time one motherfucker said, uh, go down there by 260 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:18.039 the fucking ocean and there's fish, and it turns out, you know, 261 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.440 there's a trap or something whatever. I'm not sure what the first lie was, 262 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.160 but sometimes, tens of thousands of years ago, things like years ago, 263 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:30.200 humans learned to lie and that became the big problem. That's why we're 264 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:33.000 so different. So don't tell me words don't matter if they're only words. 265 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.720 fucking words are the most important ships. So we gotta get them right and 266 00:19:36.799 --> 00:19:40.720 it doesn't hurt to just try a little harder and if you see some slurs 267 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:44.000 out there, just, you know, sweep them out of your periphery. 268 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.039 Just get them out, get him off the radar. Find new words. 269 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:51.240 Got Lots of them. You don't have to sit there and slur somebody over 270 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:53.279 something, something they just can't change. It's fucked up. Don't do it. 271 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:00.359 I'm John. PODCASTING GOOD