Nigger vs Nigga, are both words referred to as the N-word?

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There are at least three different meanings to the word (slur for Blacks, friend, vague word for dude that can be an insult) but there is no meaningful difference between the pronunciations.

Nigga is nigger spoken with a Black/Deep Southern accent. I have heard Black rappers say nigger and I have heard White Deep Southerners say nigga, because it’s another case of dropping the r.

 

[Rick The Stick]

Only niggers think nigga is a different word. Muhfucka is the same as motherfucker. Both examples are just niggers being unable to comprehend the English language.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Why do blacks say ax instead of ask? Every hoodrat I ever met was incapable of saying ask.

Because they're retarded niggers. There's no great mystery to it.

 

[Izdaja Slika]

I came to this forum to ask a related question but not exactly the same question. Apologies if this counts as necroing a thread.

On a YouTube video recently, someone expressed shock at a white woman using 'the n-word'. And, it was 'the n-word with a hard-r'. I have seen this sentiment about the difference between hard-r 'nigger' versus 'nigga', especially this idea that the real unforgivable sin is pronouncing it (or even thinking it) with a hard-r. And that somehow, if it had been 'nigga', that would have been, if not acceptable, somehow less unacceptable. Is this true?

For context, I am Australian, and in an Australian accent, 'nigger' and 'nigga' sound exactly the same. (Australian-accented English is generally non-rhotic so anything with 'er' basically loses the 'r' - e.g. 'butter' is pronounced 'butta', 'meter' would be 'meet-a', etc.).

I know white people get cancelled for singing song lyrics that contain 'nigga', but was there any time that 'nigga' was socially acceptable for white Americans to say, and do people really have a different response to the hard-r 'version'?

 

[zionlion1488]

I know white people get cancelled for singing song lyrics that contain 'nigga', but was there any time that 'nigga' was socially acceptable for white Americans to say, and do people really have a different response to the hard-r 'version'?

Yes, 100%. I grew up in the 90s..in my teenage years it was very common place for white kids to say nigga and have zero consequences. This wasn't because it was a more racist society...it was actually the opposite. Nobody saw it as racial because they understood that nigga was not a racial slur.