tkscz
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So if a white boy goes into a room of friends and says, out loud "Hey Niggas" and they are like wtf, but he says, "no, without the R", it somehow becomes very different?
I understand how it is used, but vocally it is the same. The 'new' word is in fact derived to have the same meaning, which is exactly why it exists in the first place. So to the people who are offended, it is the same.
Or how many people would it take to change another racial slur to having a nice sweet meaning? For as long as large and vocal black community finds either spelling racist all the same, it becomes bigotry to use it and tell them to not be offended because the spelling is different.
I would imagine people who casually say "Nigga" also have no problem saying "Nigger", mostly because they wouldn't even be able to differentiate the two.
"Carlos was my mate until after a couple of years of college, I added him on facebook. I realised he was say it with an -er this whole time!"
Oh for god's sake, IT'S CONTEXT. Of course if a white person does that, in context it will seem racist, but if he walked up to just one of them and went "what up my nigga", it would be taken differently. This is because just yelling in a room full of black people seems weird and suspicious, not even something the average black person would do, unless he/she was meaning to insult them.