Is 'the N word' offensive or just acceptable everyday slang?

[sp1814]

I would appear to be the latter in Australia:

http://www.dailymail....N-word-offensive.html

Would any Ab'er use the phrase in front of a black person they didn't know, and if so, in what context?

[jno]

there's a difference between public and private speech. If you're talking to someone you know you can use whatever form of speech you like, which means black people can call each other n*ggaz and Jews can tell each other Jewish jokes. This does not, in law or common sense, apply to public utterances to people you don't know.

[anotheoldgit]

Why do ethnic minorities have the sole right to be offended?

Some ethnic minorities offend me many times, but there are no laws to protect me.

It is just ridiculous how can some who are offended be protected by law whereas other are not?

/// But another writer commented: 'If blacks and Arabs stopped caring about what people called them and got on with their lives, then these words would vanish from common usage'.///

[sherminator]

you are protected aog?

you are a denomination (White presumably) so if anyone callys you a honky or otherwise then you will be protected under law like everyone else? Why on earth wouldnt you???

[ELVIS68]

Not offensive, still widely used, just one of those taboo words used among white folk

[beso]

A football club in Aus had a stand called the N1gger Brown stand and it stood for many years while nobody cared. That is how the club's hero from many years ago had been known.

The PC brigade got involved. The football club dealt with the controversy by demolishing the perfectly servicable stand and replacing it.

[naomi24]

Just an observation, but Sherminator has typed the word 'honky' with no problems from the AB filter at all. Funny that.

[sp1814]

AOG

You wrote:

"It is just ridiculous how can some who are offended be protected by law whereas other are not?"

Nonsense....utter nonsense.

[sp1814]

/// But another writer commented: 'If blacks and Arabs stopped caring about what people called them and got on with their lives, then these words would vanish from common usage'.///

Really?

What a foolish thing to say.

Idiotic really. If women ignored men who used the c word, would it fall out of existance?

If the handicapped ignored the words spazz or spacker, would they?

Bored with ignorant bigots spouting off about stuff they have no knowledge of.

[ELVIS68]

Not all black people are n!ggers, just the hooded feral gang members that you see on the news or in newspapers, like the ones who happy slapped the grandfather the other week and left him for dead infront of his 3 yr old grand-daughter

[sp1814]

ELVIS68

What is your definition of the N word then?

And what is the white equivalent?