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Quote Originally Posted by VictorCharlie View Post
I'm offended b/c it is a racial slur; just like I'd be if you used one for any other group. Bigotry shouldn't be tolerated regardless of one's actual race, religion, ethnicity, group or sexual orientation.
Sorry I'm not buying that. There is a world of difference between calling someone a Nigger and a Hillbilly and you dont have to be American to realise that.
When you use hillbilly, redneck etc as a pejorative you are suggesting that someone (usually a white person) is ignorant, uneducated, backwards and so on. This is pretty much the same connotation when Nigger or any other racial slur is used as a pejorative. I am fully aware that Dia meant no such thing but that doesn't change what the word is. Maybe you don't find it offensive b/c you are in fact white and so is Dia (I think) but I personally don't differentiate between slurs regardless of the context or who they are referring to.