Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Special case? Some folks privileged to use that word when most of the world isn't allowed? Sorry, that just don't work for me.

I think the reasons highlighted above are sufficient. Pick up a history book. "Nigger," in most contexts, is a massively charged word with a special history.

Some communities co-opt words for their own use. Not sure it's too much en vogue now, but when I was in San Diego, I had a group of gay friends that would call each other "fag" or "faggot." Amongst themselves, it was alright, but if someone they didn't know called them a "faggot" it meant something different.

Yes, it is a double standard. Sometimes 400 years of slavery earns you a double standard.

Europeans enslaved each other for far longer than that. It's just specialcaseism.