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I decided to look up "nigger" on dictionary.com and there is this warning:
usage alert about 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. The senses labeled Extremely Disparaging and Offensive represent meanings that are deeply insulting and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense. It is so profoundly offensive that a euphemism has developed for those occasions when the word itself must be discussed, as in court or in a newspaper editorial: โthe N-word .โ
Wow. The most offensive word in the English language. The definition shown below seems about right. A "nigger" is not necessarily a black person.
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of any racial or ethnic origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
However, there is some ambiguity as to whether the word "regarded" refers to the individual being insulted or the entire ethnic group. The definition should simply read like this:
Slang: an insult meaning contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.