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Nobody really uses that word other that in the US. Everyone on the internet that knows that word knows it with the context already.

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I can direct you to some Kipling stories where he calls everyone not a WASP the n-word. I can’t direct you to a modern Brit doing the same thing IRL but trust me, they exist.

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That’s not the case anymore. Now they’d use “wog” for that.

One of our local members of parliament, a youngish woman who had clearly read too much Enid Blyton, responded to a constitutent’s query with the phrase “n**er in the woodpile.” It not being the 1930s anymore, this was greeted with derision.

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So they do exist and public figures using it are treated about the same way it is is America, glad we agree.

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