Nigger!
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This really fucks me off. People, especially black people, who call each other nigger.

Whenever I hear it, the hairs on my neck start to rise.

I've been indoctrinated for 40 years not to use the word, not to think the word, and to understand why this word is bad. I couldn't, ever, call one of my black mates nigger - and if I did, I would expect to be punched.

So come on kiddies - when is it acceptable to use nigger these days?

This whole attitude is causing me lots of confusion, here in OZ, where casual racism seems to be the norm, a black is an aboriginal , a wog is Greek, and African is what we would call black.

But I've never heard anyone call another a nigger.....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:07, 10 replies)

Well
I have a black friend that calls me nigger (I'm whiter than an albino in a blizzard), but I just call him 'white-boy', seems to even things out.

It's not big or clever, just a way we bond.
(UncleChuckles "Cthulhu fhtagn", Wed 7 May 2008, 14:23, closed)

But..
Would you shout "Hey, Nigger!" across a crowded bar?
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:25, closed)

.
If you shouted "Heinekin" with a cold you could be in a lot of trouble.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:27, closed)

It's very simple, and it has nothing to do with the word,
there is no PC-ism between friends, friends can say forbidden words and do or say anything they like to one another, no matter how sharp-inhale-of-breath, but strangers may be offended, so err on the side of caution until you know how they feel about such things.
( ..wil, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:38, closed)

Channel4 were hypocrites,
in kicking the white girl off Big Brother for using the word, but not the black girl. I assume it was because of the nastiness of the previous celebrity series. Famous people can behave in an offensive way, but not wannabe famous ones. Surely that's bigoted?
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 7 May 2008, 14:52, closed)

Greeks often greet their mates...
by shouting, "Hey, wanker! How's it going?"
Even after being taken under the village / town's wings and being regarded as one of their own, this was never a privelage allowed to me. The one time I tried it (with a very good mate) I was kindly but firmly told that would never be acceptable.

(So I greeted him with "bum-boy" next time I saw him. That went down like a lead balloon too...)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:57, closed)

Tourette's:
That Greek thing undoubtedly stems from the casual greeting the Greeks use to each other: "Hey, malaka!".

In Greek, malaka(s) technically means wanker - but they use it very casually, and don't take it as an insult in any way. It's more like "dude", depending on the context.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakas

I went to university with a lot of Greeks.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 7 May 2008, 15:08, closed)

@ EuroSong
Yeah-ah-know! ;o) I lived on the island of Kos for three years, and Thessaloniki for a few months. My fault for not saying what I meant properly - it still wasn't acceptable for me to use that greeting, whether that's because I'm a girl or british, I never did establish. Lovely warm people, the majority of Greeks are. They could teach us a few things on old-fashioned family values and respect.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 7 May 2008, 17:44, closed)

@ Tourette's
Sadly it was probably because you're British - I had a lot of Greek and Cypriot friends in Pervland and every other word they said was 'malaka', but when I learnt it they looked at me very oddly...
( Maladicta, Wed 7 May 2008, 19:14, closed)

^ the thing is...
I speak the language! They were quite happy to discuss any other filth with me, and regarded me as one of their own. I even got dragged along to church at Easter, though I have not one religious bone in my body.
But joining in the malaka greeting in the buddy/mate sense of the word was strictly off limits.

p.s. I can swear fluently in Greek too :o)
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 7 May 2008, 23:35, closed)