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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Well, that's really what matters, isn't it, A.C. being white. Offensiveness is not in the eye of the beholder, it's a conscious choice on part of the offender. You can be accidentally rude, insensible, in fact a lot of things, but not offensive. A slur isn't a slur unless you mean it to be one. A.C. wrote for a largely white audience to whom "Ten Little Niggers" was nothing but a reference to the old children's rhyme.
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I am going to disagree with this. If you call someone something and they don't want to be called that - you are offending. I was in a store one day and called the shopkeeper "dude." I wasn't trying to be offensive, but he was
very offended. Who am I to tell him that he has no right to be offended?
And to further that point, "nigger" was not a term until American slavery. I'm sure no Jewish person would agree any anti-Semite term is ok if the person using it wasn't intentionally being offensive. Micheal Jackson found that out.