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Originally Posted by essendoubleop
I think that's too nuanced to apply to society in general. As soon as that word goes off (or something similar sounding like "niggardly") peoples ears shoot up. It's definitely one of those better safe than sorry things where it's better to simply not say it, then to be dragged into confrontation with someone who may not understand.
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while I tend to agree, are you saying we shouldn't challenge people to think and understand that words have more than one meaning and context?
Obviously, it's a word that I don't use personally or that should be used in it's racial context when dealing with black people, but it seems a bit odd to me that things have become so PC that black, white, yellow etc don't even know the basis of words other than what it means to their subset of society.