Given the very recent history of extreme power imbalance that still carries on to some extent today, and considering how much of that imbalance is tied to concepts communicated through language, I'd personally be very careful about ever using the offending word. I'm not saying that it should never be used or that people should shy away from the power or out of bowing to political correctness, I am just aware of how charged it is and how it can be used to reinforce and reinvent a derogatory identity for black people, who had been up until recently institutionally placed and forced to remain in a position of lower status by white people.
Elvis Costello is a good example of a white (British) person using the word in a way that acknowledges it's uses, history and power.
I would recommend anyone to look into social identity theory, it is very interesting.
Each of the six star of davids that the offending word was replaced with represents one million jews. thus ******? is clearly a statement of at very least questioning the holocaust, possibly leading to a later statement of clear cut denial. I do not like this any more than I liked the original statement, but at least it could be seen as thoughtfully provocative.



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