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would you call Candace Owens the n word? bigotry is about you, not the person you subject it to.
I would, if she were to go out with a public opinion that it was okay for trump&allies to call black people niggers and sell them into slavery. I wouldn't do it on a public internet forum, most likely, but I would do it to her face. It's following the (her, in this example) premise to its natural conclusion and it's supposed to be extremely jarring and uncomfortable. It's similar to satire, where it takes trust to know that the person 'performing' isn't actually espousing what is being acted... which is why an internet forum like here, where nobody trusts nada, isn't the proper place to do it. Directly responding to them on bluesky like there? More acceptable.
I would not