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      1610 days ago

      Nobody really uses that word other that in the US. Everyone on the internet that knows that word knows it with the context already.

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        I can direct you to some Kipling stories where he calls everyone not a WASP the n-word. I can’t direct you to a modern Brit doing the same thing IRL but trust me, they exist.

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          19 days ago

          That’s not the case anymore. Now they’d use “wog” for that.

          One of our local members of parliament, a youngish woman who had clearly read too much Enid Blyton, responded to a constitutent’s query with the phrase “n**er in the woodpile.” It not being the 1930s anymore, this was greeted with derision.

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            19 days ago

            So they do exist and public figures using it are treated about the same way it is is America, glad we agree.

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      1210 days ago

      Yeah, but as a swede myself I definitely know it’s a no no word especially as by that time other YouTube’s already had their own n-word controversies.

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      Decent human beings in every country find that word offensive (with the exception of the people of color slang culture saying it among each other). The people not finding it offensive are mentally ill hate-filled racists.