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Old 04-29-2004, 03:14 PM  
stev0
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Originally posted by TheSmutPeddlerDOTcom
****** isn't a term for any specific race. It's definition is "ignorant," so technically it's not a swear word or anything like that. Really it's not even deragatory, over time it has just come to be that way.
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nig·ger ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ngr)
n. Offensive Slang

Used as a disparaging term for a Black person: ?You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a ******? (James Baldwin).
Used as a disparaging term for a member of any dark-skinned people.
Used as a disparaging term for a member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people: ?Gun owners are the new ******s... of society? (John Aquilino).
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