How can you say that you aren't racist but make nigger jokes? it doesn't fucking matter where you make them. please seriously answer this.
i mean, if I made nigger jokes with my dad, but I didn't make them around my friends, wouldn't that just make me a closet racist?
I've gone over it with several people over there and this is the best answer we've come up with as a collective group:
Listen to the word 'nigger'. Forget the connotations, the meanings, just say it out loud and listen to the found your mouth makes. Based on the sound alone, the word seems a little funny, a little rediculous, and it rolls off the tongue very well. 'nigger' (and 'faggot' too actually) has completely lost its meaning connecting it to anything derogatory over there and is more often used not as just a descriptor for any person.
ex: if you call somebody a nintendofag, they're a 'nintendo person' aka nintendo fanboy. Or whatever.
The most creative use we've seen of it was 'backnigger' - referring to any background character or redshirt that simply stands behind the main action in a scene and does nothing.
This trend definately started with just "lol racism" jokes and was in effect long before I even went to .org, but over time the racism has just been stripped of the term in that particular community's lexicon.