BBC apologises over racial slur used in news report
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This whole no context is acceptable, unless you are of a specific background is stupid. Getting rid of context destroys human conversation completely and I fully believe that that is the goal of this. It can be argued that people should not say the word “nigger” but if nobody should say it than absolutely nobody should say it. You cannot determine something to be okay when we do it, but that is how it works now.
Context is why "no context is acceptable, unless you are of a specific background."
Preventing the use of a word in an academic setting, such as a BBC article about an allegedly racist attack prevents knowledge of that context being spread to other individuals, so they understand why “nigger” has such a connotation. Childish euphemisms such as “N-word” detract from it’s historical significance as a slur and it should absolutely be allowed to discussed in such a context. Disallowing any context would mean that it is impossible to discuss the negative history of the word because you are unable to use that word.