This caused me to laugh out loud. I'm presuming you did this intentionally, but if not...
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Originally Posted by dippin
Nigger, the word, comes from the Portuguese word negro.
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Which literally means "black."
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It was a word used to dehumanize African slaves. Dehumanize often in quite literal ways, such as not counting as a full person in the census, etc. As slavery came to pass, racists clang on to the word to reaffirm the status of less than human of blacks in society.
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Eventually, blacks started coopting the word, as many discriminated groups do, as a way of empowering themselves.
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When a white person uses the word nigger as an insult against a black person, that white person is not simply using the word as any other insult, but is using it precisely because of the historical context of the use of that word.
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