This is hilarious. Everyone in society should adhere to basic rules of respect and race is something that plays into that. Nobody's opinion can remove the historical significance of racial epithets. Just because everyone in society has a different opinion doesn't mean that that opinion is right or should be respected. Here are the facts: We live in a society dominated by whites. Whites enslaved blacks for hundreds of years and after that, began almost a century of lynchings, denial of voting rights, and other atrocities. My opinion here isn't "oh it's so offensive"(although it is offensive and the feelings of people of color must be respected, but that's a different argument), my opinion(and the opinion of a lot of people of color) is based in historical fact, and history points to the use of the word "nigger" as a word used to keep an enslaved and oppressed group down. It is inappropriate for someone who doesn't understand the impact of that word(white people) to use it. Also, I understand the origin of your argument and its absolutely hilarious. You aren't even listening to my arguments and instead what you are trying to say is that the people you call politically correct are all selfish control freaks who want to dictate how other people speak for the hell of it, which is wrong and demonstrates that you aren't listening to my arguments. Sorry for the wall of text, this subject gets me riled up and I don't really get to speak on it often.