History Main / NWordPrivileges

* Discussed and given the FantasticRacism treatment in ''WebVideo/Dimension20'''s "Magic and Misfits" campaign, which is a DeconstructiveParody of ''Literature/HarryPotter''. The four player characters are American teenagers who are informed they're wizards and are whisked away to a magical boarding school in England. Naturally, they [[ExpyCoexistence draw comparisons to a certain fantasy franchise]], and refer to their non-magical parents as {{Muggles}}, only to be scolded by the headmistress, who informs them that in magical society, "muggle" is a ''very'' serious slur towards people without magic. The PC term is "non-magical person", or "namps" for short. The kids immediately agree that "namps" somehow feels ''more'' offensive, and question if ''they'' can use "muggle", since they were raised in their world and thought ''they'' were non-magical until about a week ago. They're told "no" and are glared at and reprimended for using it in public, but quietly agree that it's fine to use it amongst themselves, just not in "mixed company". They're all downright gleeful when the headmistress ''almost'' says it during a speech, but catches herself at the last second.

-->"We take what we want! And after we take Wrestling/LexLuger and [[Wrestling/TheBigShow The Giant]], we want the gold sucka! Wrestling/HulkHogan, we're comin for you nigga." ''([[DidIJustSayThatOutLoud realizes what he just said]] and {{face palm}}s.)

* Inverted in ''Film/TropicThunder'' : when black rapper Alpa Chino uses the word, Kirk Lazarus (an extreme method actor who stays in-character at all times and underwent cosmetic surgery to darken his skin in order to play the black Lincoln Osiris) gets dead serious and sternly chastises him for it, claiming that "for four hundred years, that word has kept us down". Predictably, this confuses the hell out of Alpa.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead''. During the planning for the heist, Tanaka tells the crew that the job should be "easy, peasy, Japanesey". When Dieter (the dorky German safecracker) objects and insists on the more politically-correct "lemon-squeezy", Tanaka awkwardly points out that he is, in fact, Japanesey and so he can use that line. Eventually Tanaka acquiesces and uses "lemon-squeezy", deciding it's not an argument worth having.

* Website/FourChan [[DefiedTrope defies]] this trope, using the word "fag" to refer to ''everyone''. Anonymous who draw are "drawfags", writers are "writefags", and there are even a few Christians on the board who refer to themselves as "Christfags". They also like to use the word "nigger" to refer to everyone, and in its absence they'll use an equivalent ethnic slur when talking about other countries. Interestingly, some Anons have forsaken the "-fag" suffix in favor of "-friend" or "-person" (probably as a joke over political correctness or to be able to use said words on sites where they are restricted). In threads about sexuality, you'll see "[[OxymoronicBeing straightfags]]", and yes -- [[ShapedLikeItself "gayfags" and "fagfags"!]]

* ''Website/{{Tumblr}}'' has a meme stemming from someone anonymous asking a black person's blog if a child suffering from cancer would be allowed to say the n-word as their dying wish. The "Racist Cancer Child" was mocked site-wide for being such a ridiculous attempt at {{Rules Lawyer}}ing.

* Stoney Edwards, one of the first Black singers to have a Top 20 hit on the ''Billboard'' CountryMusic chart (with "She's My Rock", later CoveredUp by Music/GeorgeJones), released "Blackbird (Hold Your Head High)" in 1975. A semi-biographical song about a Black country [[BandOfRelatives family band]] (but not written by him),[[note]]It was written by his white producer, SingerSongwriter Chip Taylor, the brother of Creator/JonVoight.[[/note]] the chorus had Edwards explicitly acknowledge his racial identity with the line "Just a couple of country niggas, stealin' the rodeo, from Georgia on up to Bangor, Maine." Despite that context, country radio still didn't want to touch the song (it stalled out at #41 on the ''Billboard'' Country chart).

* Stoney Edwards, one of the first Black singers to have a Top 20 hit on the ''Billboard'' CountryMusic chart (with "She's My Rock", later CoveredUp by Music/GeorgeJones), released "Blackbird (Hold Your Head High)" in 1975. A semi-biographical song about a Black country [[BandOfRelatives family band]] (but not written by him),[[note]]It was written by his white producer, SingerSongwriter Chip Taylor, the brother of Creator/JonVoight.[[/note]] the chorus includes the line "Just a couple of country niggas, stealin' the rodeo, from Georgia on up to Bangor, Maine." Despite his race, this was still considered shocking enough to hurt the song's sales (it stalled out at #41 on the ''Billboard'' Country chart).

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed briefly]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto5'' when Jimmy and Franklin hang out.

* Used for a BaitAndSwitch gag on Series/TheGoodies. The eponymous trio takes possession of a racing horse who is [[Literature/BlackBeauty black and a great beauty]]. Tim suggests the n-word as a name, before realising that it might not be the best name.

* On ''Series/MadTV'', a sketch called "Reality Check with Tova [=McQueen=] & Velma Buttons", Senator Trent Lott attempts to apologize to Velma and Tova for making offensive remarks toward the African-American community to which Velma refers to Senator Lott as a "Re-nigger", much to the shock of her co-host Tova, Velma justifies by pointing out that she has the right to say it because ''she's'' black.

%%* [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=191 This strip]] from ''Webcomic/VGCats'' is mocking a UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable ad campaign involving squirrels talking in Ebonics. Yet one goes too far (relevant panels used as page pic).

* ''Webcomic/DoesNotPlayWellWithOthers'': Naga's Website/{{Twitch}} stream gets flagged and demonitized due a complaint she was using a slur: "Naga". The person who made the inital complaint turned out to be another naga streamer, intentionally abusing the system to harm a competitor.

%%* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' {{Website/YouTube}}r WebVideo/{{Muselk}} enjoys taunting Snipers about being a "dirty Australian", being Australian himself.

%%* Music/DavidAllanCoe has come under fire for this. His 1977 single "If That Ain't Country" contains the line "workin' like a nigger". Furthermore, he released a pair of underground comedy albums through the back pages of a biker magazine, ''Nothing Sacred'' (1979) and ''Underground Album'' (1982), containing, in addition to a lot of [[BleachedUnderpants sexually explicit humor]], a couple of songs that have been slammed by critics as being racist, after Coe started selling the albums through his website, particularly the track Nigger Fucker (at the beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4MQyHepso DAVID ALLAN COE - 18 X-Rated Hits [1990]]]). It's noteworthy that Coe's drummer on these albums was African-American and married to a white woman, and Coe himself also said in defense of the albums that he has long, dreadlocked hair and dresses like "a New York pimp". "Nigger Fucker" arguably comes across most clearly as satire because of its raunchy sex jokes, but Coe's ''other'' controversial underground song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3LD0zc5jzc Rails]]", is pretty unnerving due to containing the lyrics "niggers made me vote for segregation" and "the Ku Klux Klan is bigger, so take the sheets off of your bed and let's go hang a nigger". The fact that Coe had a black drummer on that song doesn't help.

%%* The white WebVideo/{{Sidemen}} [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and]] [[TokenMinority Vik]] don't tend to give themselves this liberty, especially when their two black members (Tobi and [[Creator/{{KSI}} JJ]]) are around.
%%** [[WebVideo/{{miniminter}} Simon]] decided to work around this by [[{{Blackface}} smearing Nutella on his face]], going up to JJ, and saying the N-word to his face (which got bleeped out). [[ActuallyPrettyFunny JJ promptly broke down laughing.]]
%%** In one of Josh's ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV GTA Online]]'' episodes, [[https://youtu.be/vTVF8R03jdw?t=4m25s Ethan casually said something that sounded like "niggas",]] causing every Sideman playing (white or black) to flip their shit. Ethan then defended himself by stating that he was merely saying "negos" after the race creator's name ([=XxnegoskxX=]), and also gave a ridiculous description of what said name meant that caused everyone to laugh out loud.
%%--->'''Ethan''': It's Toys/{{Lego}} for black people.

* ''WebVideo/{{Sidemen}}'': Only the two black members, Creator/{{KSI}} and TBJZL, are allowed to say the N-word. This is apparent whenever they play ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'', as whenever there's a card that contains the N-word, they will let any of the two who is participating in the session to say the word regardless of who the current Card Czar is. Should neither JJ or Tobi participates in the session, then the others will censor the N-word as "Nigel" instead.

*** In the 2000 ''Up In Smoke'' tour, he was recorded rapping the word several times in a [[https://youtu.be/uU16mJI6vhQ?t=115 freestyled adlib]]. Yikes.

* ''Series/TheOffice'': In the episode "Diversity Day", the second episode of the series and the first to not be a remake of an episode of the British version, the plot begins after Michael does a Chris Rock routine resulting in the office undergoing diversity training. He at one point asks whether the reason the comedian can do it and he can't is because he is white and Chris Rock is black, but ignores this revelation and proceeds to make things worse.

* ''Series/TheOffice (US)'': In the episode "Diversity Day", the second episode of the series and the first to not be a remake of an episode of the British version, the plot begins after Michael does a Chris Rock routine resulting in the office undergoing diversity training. He at one point asks whether the reason the comedian can do it and he can't is because he is white and Chris Rock is black, but ignores this revelation and proceeds to make things worse.

* In ''The Hero Business'' storyline "The All-New Bravado", Franchise/{{Superman}} expy Bravado goes through a series of revamps to make him more relatable. During a brief "Hipper and Edgier" stint, he addresses a team of Franchise/XMen stand-ins as "muties", which causes outrage because he's not a mutant and that is their word.

%%* ''ComicBook/XMen''
%%** In an old issue of ''Uncanny ComicBook/XMen'', where Kitty Pryde is confronting a group of her fellow students who are plotting to kill Professor Xavier during a visit to Columbia University (this was at a time that Kitty was taking college classes). One of the students, who was black, accuses Kitty of being "a mutie", to which Kitty replies: "I dunno, Phil, are you a nigger?" (The word was not censored in the original dialogue.) Ray responds predictably, prompting Kitty to call him on his hypocrisy.
%%** And in the ''Uncanny X-Men'' graphic novel ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'', Kitty's dance teacher Stevie Hunter attempts to keep Kitty from beating up a boy who'd called her a "mutie lover" (not knowing that Kitty herself was a mutant), by telling Kitty that "they're just words". Kitty immediately throws Stevie's seeming hypocrisy in her face, asking her if she'd be so calm had the boy called Kitty a "nigger lover". Both examples got a lot of flak and continue to do so, where a number of readers objected to the use of the word even if it was to make a point about tolerance, some citing the idea that it was wrong to equate the suffering of a fictional minority to the suffering of a real minority.
%%* In an issue of ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX Punisher MAX]]'', a member of the IRA visiting the United States goes on a rant to his friend about how he'll be "nobody's nigger ever again", forgetting that he isn't in Belfast and the word means something ''very'' different in the States. He soon finds himself surrounded by some
* In ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'', white Yorick's black bodyguard, Agent 355, tells him, "Nigga, please!" when asked if she's in love with him. Later, when asked if he's in love with her, he echoes her answer. She gives him a momentary look as if she's about to object, and then apparently decides to let it slide, implicitly extending him N-Word Privileges, at least in the context of that conversation.
* In the original ''ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody'', an issue called "Noogie" [[BreakingTheFourthWall starts with an intro]] explaining to the readers that they've been forbidden to use the "N-word", and will use the word "Noogie" instead. It then subverts it when a poor black character repeatedly calls Quantum "noogie". Quantum, who is black but whose costume covers his entire body, asks how the man knows he's black, and he responds "You're ''black?'' S-Word!"

* Referenced, FantasticRacism style, in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'':

* In one ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' story, Johnny and Wulf receive some information from a fellow BountyHunter, Cecil 'Frog' Parsons. Wulf thanks him for this, referring to him as 'Frog', which causes Frog to fly into a rage about people who refer to him by his mutation instead of his name. Wulf apologizes, and then Johnny gives Frog a payment for the info, also calling him 'Frog'. When Wulf asks why he didn't get angry at Johnny, Frog matter-of-factly points out that Johnny is also a mutant, so it's different.
* In ''[[ComicBook/XForce X-Statix]]'', the black team member Anarchist calls a black applicant a spear-chucker, and tells the Orphan (who is a purple-skinned Caucasian mutant) that he wouldn't be allowed to do the same. The Spike literally throws spears, as it happens. And this is all the more ironic when you consider that the Anarchist is adopted and his parents are white, so the Spike thinks he didn't have the right in the first place.
* Mocked by Franchise/{{Superman}} villain Manchester Black (who was visually Caucasian), who would frequently use this kind of word and immediately after claim it was okay for him to say that, because he was 1/16th (insert relevant minority group). At the end of his first appearance after being beaten by Superman, the Man of Steel uses this against him by taking a shot at his leadership skills, and then saying "[[MeaningfulEcho And I can say that because]] [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague I am a leader]]."
* Utterly spoofed in ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'', where Brakko, who's black, is always at the receiving end of horribly racist insults from his mother-in-law... [[BoomerangBigot Who is black too but thinks she's white]], and only gets away with her insults because nobody has quite figured out how to point that out to her.
* While it never saw print, originally the ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' member Brown Bomber (a white guy whose power is to turn into a superpowered black guy for an hour by shouting the words "black power!") had a scene where he asked Vixen (a black woman) whether he could say the N-Word while in his black form; she said he definitely couldn't. In a meta-example, his question [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-legends-was-spider-man-nearly-superior-two-years-early/ was cut at the last minute]], but her reply was left in, leaving the entire page looking a bit bizarre and turning her response into an OrphanedPunchline.
* ''ComicBook/KillingAndDying'': Old white republicans who are upset at black people but can't articulate why are the subject of a black aspiring comedian's joke. He says they probably say the n-word in private just to let it out.
* Parodied in the second issue of ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'', where Aquaman insists that only he is allowed to make fish jokes.