And 'nigger' means black person.
So do you allow your children to call black folk 'nigger'?
The term nigger is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 b>represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense.
To claim the words are even remotely equivalent is disingenuous at best.
So do you allow your children to call black folk 'nigger'?
THAT is racism. It does NOT mean a black person. Racists only used it to describe the blacks. You've been brainwashed by PC. Anyone who assumes it means "black people" has a problem.
Contemptible, inferior, ignorant, a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised.
In the United States it does, nowadays.
However, in the not-too-distant past, 'nigger' was used to describe (generally) any one of a large number of non-Caucasian groups. E.g. in Charles Williams' War in Heaven, published in 1930 in England, in the chapter Conversations of a Young Man in Grey, one character snarls at another, "No we don't want you. Nor Hindoos, Chinks, or any other kind of nigger."
There are two points.
One is that language and acceptable usage change over time.
The other is that (as Orwell taught us, and unfortunately, the left, in 1984) is that if you control what constitutes acceptable usage, you can control the very terms of the debate, and hence the outcome.
Ann is simply trying to fight for freedom of speech that the left wants to stigmatize; and to point out the hypocrisy of the "I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" crowd.
For more on these topics, see my vanities on Coulter here, and here, and one on liberal speech hypocrisy here.
Cheers!