> Right but if you say the french equivalent of "you fucking n-word" to your teacher, nothing happens No, that's exactly the opposite of what I said. In the US

> Right but if you say the french equivalent of "you fucking n-word" to your teacher, nothing happens No, that's exactly the opposite of what I said. In the US you have to circumlocute your way around saying the word in all circumstances, even when it's not used in a derogatory / insulting way (such as referentially, or even because it sounds that way, see "niggardly" and "nega nega" incidents.) Insulting someone is insulting someone. Saying "go get sexually penetrated you inferior race person" is offensive whether you use a taboo word or not.