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Yeah we don't call it that here in the states. I've heard 'the r word' but never 'hard r'. We reserve that terminology for the OTHER hard R.
Republican?
That was my first guess. Its amazing how people think referencing the first letter a word starts with is somehow different from just saying or typing it.
It's the main offensive word for black people. In general use it ends in an "a" sound, and can be positive neutral, or negative. In racist use it ends in the "hard R" and is always negative. Since you are not from the US, I would say you probably shouldn't say it at all, just like I did not in this post.
Aah ok. That was a lot of walking around hot porridge as they say here, so:
Nigga: can be friendly
removed: the real racist bad word.
You americans are bizarre (or should I say "the B word" 😁).
Edit: lool my post got sencored! Now nobody will ever know...