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You are not Racist

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I like "bffr" (be fucking for real). I have often had need of it
- I would have guessed "bro for fucking real" or something like that ... But whatever I came up with would have just been a guess.
  
  Best Friends Forever, Racist.
  
  i thought it was "best friend/boyfriend for real"
How does saying "the N word" mean someone is "not white"?

But yes, nice if real.
- The N word is used by 3 demographics - black people, racist people and 12 year olds playing COD
  
  There is another
  
  How dare you put black people in the same category with racists and my wife's boyfriend!?
  
  Only black people use that word? Why?
- It's less that "white people never say the N word" and more that you absolutely should not be following someone if you believe they're as racist as that.
- You aren't allowed to / really shouldn't be say it if you aren't Black.
  
  Presumably under this notion someone anonymous who says it should be abiding that cultural norm.
  
  Meaning that if an anonymous person is saying it and you expect them to abide that norm it'd be reasonable to assume they're Black.
  
  I'm really still in the camp that there are no bad words. Only bad intent. That said, I've got no use for the word. It's practically a worthless word.
  
  Sounds racist?
  
  What an odd culture.
  
  Understood.
- Begs the question.
  
  In the USA, are there more black people using the N-word, or racists using the N-word?
  
  hmmm, as a percentage of the population and when considering frequency? probably black people. in plain numbers, probably the racists.
- Replying to check for updates on this.
Yikes... So they followed someone they thought was racist? I get the feeling they, too, might be racist.
- They followed someone they thought was "just racist"
  
  Well I mean in America, so "not actively murdering people" can, for some, be enough.
What is a “mutual?”
- You both follow one another. If they just followed but weren't followed back, then they aren't mutuals.
  
  Ahh. Learned something! Thanks.
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Double standards.
Shades of Clayton Bigsby.
What is that in the background of the thumbs up?
Doesn't actively research their mutuals' races and being so shocked someone isn't white that you have to make a post about it... does not go quite together for me.

If that's too complicated for a sentence, dude's a racist.
- He clearly assumed OP was a white racist and didn't have a problem following them, that pretty much tells me all I need to know
  
  Well, he did call the person he thought was racist a mutual...
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