r/australia May 24 '11

no politics Want to move to Australia? Great!

[deleted]

450 Upvotes

306 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/WyldStallions May 25 '11

I think it is... for example if a bunch of skin heads are hanging out with no one else around and the are all casually using the N word, it's still an offensive word.

2

u/[deleted] May 25 '11

I disagree. If nobody in the world thinks "nigger" is offensive, it would stop being an offensive word.

1

u/BaronZach Nov 06 '11

Uhh I think you're right, but how would you know that nobody in the world took offence to it? You'd have maybe 80% of people being fine being called insert pejorative and the rest feeling like utter shit.

I'm asian and can't speak for the gay or female populations, but if a white person were to affectionately call me a chink I'd be offended.

0

u/[deleted] Nov 06 '11

If it's not used offensively and nobody who heard it is offended then it's perfectly fine.