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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 11 hours ago

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