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I’d like to see you say this word to any black person in real life. To a teacher. In front of a classroom full of kids. To your high school principal. In a speech given to a crowd of even just 100 people (who aren’t the KKK.) In a job interview. On the radio (it would be censored.) On television (it would be censored.) In print (it would be censored), where your full name would be printed for everyone to see.
I think you are fairly well aware that this word IS offensive in pretty much any setting TODAY, not just 60 years ago. But, as you and others keep bringing up, “it’s the internet,” and you feel like the internet is a safe haven where you can say things you would never ever say in real life, knowing they would have real life consequences you are exempt from here. In the real world, you would be branded a racist for using this word and would suffer the consequences. For instance, if you said it in a job interview, it would almost certainly cost you a job. Here, you can say it and get away with it, because no one knows who you really are.
Fact: just because no one knows who you are and you don’t suffer any real world consequences for using this word doesn’t mean that the word is any less racist and offensive, and it certainly doesn’t make you any less racist for reserving its use for somewhere you think you can get away with it.
