Gen Y'ers using slur words as terms of affection.

Typical story of idiot young people thinking you can reclaim a word by using it in a nice way. My view is if you are under 18 and using slur words, you are just young and stupid.

If you are pass high school and running around calling people MY NIGGA! You are just guttertrash and no hope for being a productive member of civilized society.

"....I use the word beaner on my show a lot. I started to say Hispanic, and people were saying things, like, 'I'm not Hispanic. Hispanic is a word created by the Nixon administration.' Chicano? 'Well, I'm from El Salvador and Chicano means Mexican, but a Mexican that was born here.' How about I use Latino? 'I don't speak Latin. I speak Spanish, and I don't even speak Spanish that well.' Um, what about beaner? Nobody? Fine. That is comedian Carlos Mencia explaining on National Public Radio why he uses an ethnic slur in much the same way Chris Rock uses the N-word in stand-up routines. South Florida teens, like these comedians, are doing what linguists call "melioration"-- reclaiming a word meant to sting by removing its barb. "It's a generational thing," said Robin Lakoff, professor of linguistics at University of California/Berkeley. "Younger people don't feel or experience the same barriers between people that older people have been brought up to assume. And that, of course, would be reflected in language." While students "like to present themselves as a so-called post-racial generation," tensions still exist, said Jean Muteba Rahier, director of African and African-Diaspora Studies at Florida International University. "All racial slurs are not equal.'' Daniel Forbes, 20, a black Jamaican-American who grew up in Delray Beach and attends Lynn University in Boca Raton, says he doesn't have a problem with the N-word but draws the line at being called Haitian. He equates the Haitian community with poverty and the N-word with mainstream music and kinship, no different than the saying "hey, that's my dawg." Jordon Wilson, a black 17-year-old senior at Coral Glades High School in Coral Springs, says the use of the N-word is not all that black and white. He says his white friends can use it only at parties, yet words such as chico, ese and mami are always acceptable in his crowd. Alexander Adams has his limits, too. The 17-year-old senior at Deerfield Beach High School says he'll walk up one of his female friends and say: "Hey, bitch." But he said he would never call a gay friend a fag, which "is more offensive than racial slurs."