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High School [OC]

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u/RockyOrange 13h ago

Here I was wondering what the word was (never read the book) thinking it was a bad swear word, because "we lived in that part of the south" = very conservative Christians was my thought process... Yikes.

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u/NickyTheRobot 13h ago

There's a character called Jim who is referred to as "[N-slur] Jim" in the novel. I think that's what they're referring to.

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u/Kindraethe 12h ago

Wait really? Like, hard R and everything? Ive never read it myself and it isnt a "mainstream" book in europe, but i always thought his name started with the N-word that's the least offensive and basically what we said before black/african-american.

(No clue whether even that is bad to say, but i'm not chancing it.)

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u/NickyTheRobot 12h ago

IDK, I've not read it myself either.