I’d rather not hear it at all. When I was a kid, my grandfather would sometimes visit and use the “N” word in his conversations. My dad told him that such language was not allowed in our house; especially in front of the kids. My grandfather argued that he had a right to say it because when he was a firefighter in the 1960s during the Hough Riots in Cleveland, he was repeatedly shot at while trying to put out fires and it made him angry. My dad stood his ground and told him not to come back. A couple years later, my grandfather apologized and I never heard him use that language again in my parents home. So, yeah, I’d rather educate people to not use it rather than repeatedly meet it head on.
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