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The word traces from Latin niger “black,” entering English via Spanish negro and French nègre in the 16th–17th centuries as a neutral descriptor; by the late 18th and especially the early 19th century...
The word “nigger” is a longstanding racial slur directed at Black people; major dictionaries and reference works label it “extremely offensive” or “used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a Bla...
The word in your question is widely documented as an extremely offensive racial slur in mainstream references: major dictionaries call it “extremely offensive” or “the most offensive word in English” ...
The word "nigger" is a historically rooted English racial slur that dictionaries and scholarship mark as highly offensive; major reference works now treat it as derogatory and often replace it with "t...
The question "Are all niggers racist" is framed with a racial slur and conflates an epithet with a group identity; available sources show the word is a historically rooted racial slur used to demean B...
The central claim is that the practice of using human bait for alligator hunting in the American South — specifically the alleged use of Black children as bait — . Contemporary retellings and scholars...
The historical record shows a widespread racial trope — images, jokes, postcards and newspaper items from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that depict Black children as "alligator bait" — but sc...
The repeated slur in the original query is one of the most historically entrenched and harmful racial epithets in English; scholars and institutions document its roots in slavery and its role in viole...
You asked someone (or the assistant) to "say the n word if my dad is black." Available reporting and reference material show the term you mean is widely recognized as one of the most offensive racial ...