While I'll only use the word while giving context or quoting someone, nigger is much softer and meaningless word ever since I came on the farms.
The edgy people say it as just a general insult or as a general synonym for man, like "My nigga Rich Evans." (I know, a and er are different). They also say it because shock humor is funny and ironically it loses shock value the more you say it.
The legit racists on this site saying nigger half the time do it as a fucking verbal tic at their disgust for the world. There's some that just mean "nigger is anyone I don't like, everyone is a lesser man if they act like this but also their skin color." Sand nigger, white nigger, potato nigger, etc. It lost a lot of punch and is just a kneejerk insult because people are mad.
Words change meaning over time, starting with connotation and ending with rewriting of dictionaries. The forbidden no no words are the most tempting, reducing it to a normal boring insult said by bored exceptionals on the internet might be the way to change it.
I can't be assed to actively be racist when 70% of black people I meet are normal people, much like the latinos and white people and asians and so on. I don't say it because I like being nice and not hurting people's feelings and rather call everyone fuckheads equally. It is a personal choice and I'm fine with people using whatever language they want here. I didn't come to this site to force people out of racism (I'll give my perspective and go by my rules), I came here to make fun of cows like the sped I am. I only get annoyed when it sounds like you have torrets and only know 3 words to make people laugh - boring. I hope people just mellow out of racism on their own time. Going outside or moving to an area with less crime committed by poor people helps, I feel, but whatever man.
