Fewer Democrats Say It's OK For Whites To Use The 'N-Word.' GOP Views Haven't Changed.*

[hlthe2b]

Fewer Democrats Say It’s OK For Whites To Use The ‘N-Word.’ GOP Views Haven’t Changed.
More than one-quarter of white Americans say they’ve personally used the word in the past five years.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-republicans-n-word_us_5b75da23e4b0a5b1feb93aa8

Republicans and Democrats disagree on a lot, but as recently as three years ago, members of both parties expressed almost identical views about white people using a racial slur for black people.

Asked in a 2015 YouGov survey if white people using the “N-word” was ever acceptable, one-quarter of Americans of all races ― including 23 percent of Democrats, 25 percent of independents and 26 percent of Republicans ― said it was.

That’s no longer the case, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. In the intervening years, tolerance for whites using the word has dropped among Democrats, and, to a lesser extent, among independents, even as Republicans’ responses remain largely unchanged.

Eight percent of Democrats and 14 percent of independents now say it’s acceptable for whites to ever use the racial slur. Among Republicans, that number remains 26 percent, with the percentage of Republicans who call the word’s usage outright unacceptable ticking down several points.

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I can't help but wonder about gender and educational level... sigh.... I doubt anyone would be surprised at the R results, though...

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[Me.]

1. NO

[Doodley]

2. That is the Trump-effect at work. Racism is okay if you are a Trumper.

[hlthe2b]

3. yes.. even among people I know to have always been RWers, I feel certain they would NEVER

have uttered or even thought that word in past decades. Now, after the attacks on Obama and with Trump now, I'm not so sure they wouldn't (though not in front of me, certainly).

[mythology]

5. What is ever?

American History X without the word would be much less powerful of a movie. Can you adequately understand race in America without that word?

Should it be used in everyday conversation? No, no matter one's race. I think it sounds idiotic 99% of the time I hear it. But I can't say it should never be used under any circumstances. It's a powerful word, use it exceedingly carefully.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. The question assumes is the word ever acceptable in everyday parlance

It seems Republicans want to use it to describe a black person they don't like.