# What is going to be the next N-word, F-word, R-word?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 25, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-going-to-be-the-next-n-word-f-word-r-word/583151 "2011-05-25T14:09:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-going-to-be-the-next-n-word-f-word-r-word/583151/42 "2011-05-26T13:53:48Z")

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> [@CitizenPained](#):
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> :rolleyes:
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> So if someone said something derogatory about black people, I can’t correct that mindset?
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> Whatever. The idea that deaf = undesirable is wrong. And the idea that Deaf would be taking 'hearing pill’s by the millions IS wrong wrong wrong.

Being black is not an objective deficiency. Not having one of the five senses is.

Don’t get me wrong, I recognize that there is a strong deaf culture that has formed to support people who have hearing disability, but if there was a 100% effective, safe and painless pill that restored hearing loss in all cases, 98% of the deaf population would be hearing within a month. You’d have a few outliers whose self-esteem was so tied up in their deaf cultural identity that they would refuse to change, but the vast majority would want that other sensory input.

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