I'm not so sure they would, the different i sound and soft g make it quite a different sounding word. Some probably would sure, but I think in a not insignificant percentage you'd just get a confused look or an ask for clarification.
I personally think you are downplaying how immediately obvious Niger as a slur would be. More so written than said aloud.
Man if my surname was Hitler I’d be changing it asap..
I think you're downplaying the fact its a different word with a different pronunciation and spelling. We are left with one that categorically is a slur, and one that could, so you say, potentially be used as a (honestly pretty confusing) slur. Just lol really - I've actually asked Carringbush2010 previously to provide an example of someone being called a Niger from popular media, don't suppose you can find one either?
Welllll just look up “Niger country” on YouTube and there are videos referencing its connection to the N word (some of them pretty funny). So it’s not some just obscure connection that CB has drawn all by himself. Anyways let’s let it go before Gethelred gives me my own thread.
So you can't find any example of it actually being used in the context of a slur, just the giggle/wink wink type stuff we've talked about before? Again, this should probably tell you something.
I’m not saying that people are routinely called nigh-jers. I’m saying that the connection between the name and the slur is immediately obvious and recognisable. You’ve picked a metric (examples of people being called a nigh-jer) because it suits your argument. I think if someone was calling a black guy on bigfooty a Niger they would be permabanned.
Give it up G, rational don't live here.
Not at all - you introduced this angle when you claimed that a person would know exactly what you were saying if you walked up to them and called them that, that you'd get roughly the same response as calling someone coon. I'm simply stating that such a case not actually existing in all of recorded media probably doesn't do that argument any favours.
There was more about whether the decision to change the name was reasonable or not earlier, but at this point yeah basically. Whether its a reasonable comparison, and whether activists are being inconsistent by not calling for a name change to the country.
Speaking of deflection, any danger of acknowledging theres a difference between having an issue with a person's name and a brand name?
Yes mate, you've been the very definition of calm measured rationality here thus far.
Well in fairness Chief introduced the “say it to black people and see what they think” as some sort of litmus test. Anyway. I think they would be, you think it’s too far removed. Agree to disagree. Let’s move on.
Id yell knee-jer to a friend called niger near a 100 african americans.
Yes mate, you've been the very definition of calm measured rationality here thus far.
Tell us again how there are people out there taking offence to the country of Niger
Had to look that one up, the more you know!
Had to look that one up, the more you know!
Don't worry CB, I'm sure the advocates will be coming out of the woodwork this word also. Any day now
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If this isn't some kind of a a wind-up it's gotta make you wonder what kind of f*ck-skulls are out there breeding right now.
