[AgThorn]

In your reference to the word "n*gg*r" you stated:
But because it was used for a race that was enslaved and lynched and denied basic rights, it has horrible associations.

I would beg to differ, or should I say "add to", in why the word is demeaning. What is most demeaning is that the utterance of the word is the fastest way to say one is less than another, a lower class, something sub-human, something not worth bothering with. No other word has been so summed up as being so degrading as this one word. (And for that reason, I am always dumbfounded how easily it comes off the tongue of so many blacks when joking with each other ...).

I am wondering if this same use of the term 'paki' in UK is why it is determined to be racist speach over there.

[Crystal Cove]

I don’t know if Paki is racist in Great Britain, but it is a derogatory term in every country.

[river rat]

"What is most demeaning is that the utterance of the word is the fastest way to say one is less than another, a lower class, something sub-human, something not worth bothering with. No other word has been so summed up as being so degrading as this one word."

But, isn't it amazing how appropriate that word is to describe so many of the sub human residents in America?

There is hardly another word so descriptive or capable of expressing the high level of contempt for those who have earned the term..

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