That's a horrible word that should never be used against a person in its current context. If you aren't black, you have no reason to use the word unless you're trying to be offensive, or if you have one of those friendships where you are allowed to mutually call each other the most offensive words possible as banter (and even then, never around someone who could overhear and be offended).
I'd love to see the meaning of the word change to mean something nice so that it loses its power to harm people, but for now it's basically a weapon.
Some of my cousins and I started trying to take the sting out of the word when we were teenagers by calling things "niggers". For example, their black cat. And brown bread was "nigger bread" and chocolate cake was "nigger cake" it was all very amusing till we realised that the idea of making the word ridiculous wasn't going to work in the real world.
Just don't call black people "niggers", Asian people "pakis" or disabled people "handicapped" or "spastic" because there's no fucking need for it. There are plenty of non offensive words to call them.
I'd love to see the meaning of the word change to mean something nice so that it loses its power to harm people, but for now it's basically a weapon.
Some of my cousins and I started trying to take the sting out of the word when we were teenagers by calling things "niggers". For example, their black cat. And brown bread was "nigger bread" and chocolate cake was "nigger cake" it was all very amusing till we realised that the idea of making the word ridiculous wasn't going to work in the real world.
Just don't call black people "niggers", Asian people "pakis" or disabled people "handicapped" or "spastic" because there's no fucking need for it. There are plenty of non offensive words to call them.