Interview · moment 3 of 12
Aboriginal Slurs, Aussie Accents, and the N-word Comparison
from Born on the 4th of Meat Pie · #124
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5 minGuest
Tim quizzes Ray Kump about his Australian accent and background, leading into a long discussion of the slur "abo," comparisons to the N-word, hip-hop's reclamation of slurs, and Chinese rappers using the N-word.
- 3:04Tim's take on immigration and crime: some people stab people, some of those people are immigrants, so you can't really stop it.
- 3:29Wondering if immigrant workers have modernized beyond landscaping and fruit-picking into tech-based jobs with iPads and robotic arms.
- 4:24Guest's Australian accent comes and goes, especially when drunk, and Tim notes he's from South Australia where 'you kind of kill the aborigines like firsthand.'
- 4:44Discussion of the Aboriginal slur: it's an abbreviation, 'abos,' and Tim acknowledges he shouldn't have said it even accidentally.
- 5:24Tim compares the dehumanizing nature of the Aboriginal slur to how it would be if Black people's formal term derived from a slur equivalent to the N-word.
- 6:21Exploring whether the N-word comes from the Spanish or Dutch word for black and whether that etymological link makes a difference.
- 6:45Tim clarifies he's not being an SJW when he says hearing the N-word is terrible, but that's where they are with the discourse now.
- 6:58The Australian guest says the N-word doesn't have the same sting in Australia that it does in America because the word itself sounds meaner.
- 7:13Tim notes that rappers love using harsh-sounding words, even Chinese rappers, because the phonetics carry meanness.