• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    24 hours ago

    Nobody really uses that word other that in the US. Everyone on the internet that knows that word knows it with the context already.

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      9 hours ago

      I can direct you to some Kipling stories where he calls everyone not a WASP the n-word. I can’t direct you to a modern Brit doing the same thing IRL but trust me, they exist.

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        57 minutes ago

        That’s not the case anymore. Now they’d use “wog” for that.

        One of our local members of parliament, a youngish woman who had clearly read too much Enid Blyton, responded to a constitutent’s query with the phrase “n**er in the woodpile.” It not being the 1930s anymore, this was greeted with derision.