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[[Some of My Best Friends Are X]] will generally ''not'' work here.
Another aspect of this trope is when a person outside the group says a slur, is aware that it is wrong, or will soon accept that it is wrong, then later apologizes for it. Otherwise, it's just plain old prejudice. Thus when [[Harry Potter|Draco Malfoy and Voldemort]] say
Many people (of all backgrounds) find this trope problematic. Those belonging to the non-dominant social group wonder if they can really "reclaim" a word with such a loaded history, or the point in doing so. Those belonging to the dominant social group cite hypocrisy and discrimination when privileges aren't extended to them (not that they'd ever use them, mind, but [[It's the Principle of the Thing]]). After all, assigning people different rights and responsibilities based on skin color is what got us into this mess in the first place, wasn't it?
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* Nonverbal: In ''[[The Chemo Kid]]'', the titular kid shows up to the school Halloween party wearing a grotesque mask that parodies someone undergoing chemotherapy. The coach is incensed, until the kid takes the mask off.
* A [[Fantastic Racism]] example can be found in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' universe, specifically in the ''[[Eisenhorn]]'' novels. In the Imperium, the word "twist" is used as a derogatory term for mutants; the mutants themselves have reclaimed this word, wearing it as a badge of pride, and Inquisitor Eisenhorn notes that "a slur stops being a slur when you use it to describe yourself."
* In the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, "mudblood" is a derogatory term used by pure-blood families for Muggle-born witches and wizards. When it's first used in ''[[
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* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'', Foaly notes that it is only acceptable to call a fairy by their species name if the speaker is a close friend.
* Thoroughly averted in [[Andrew Vachss]]'s ''Burke'' books, where various characters throw ethnic slurs around freely and no one bats an eyelid.
* The N-Word used to be tossed around pretty casually in England. There was a nursery rhyme, "Ten Little Niggers", known in America as "Ten Little Indians". [[Agatha Christie]] wrote a novel that was titled first ''Ten Little Niggers'', then ''Ten Little Indians'', and finally ''[[And Then There Were None]]''.
* In [[Michael Chabon]]'s ''[[The Yiddish Policemen's
* It's unlikely that [[Mordecai Richler]] could have gotten away with a lot of his novels' Jewish characters if he wasn't Jewish himself.
* Intentionally combined with [[Have a Gay Old Time]] in ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', thanks to the characters being from different time periods: Odetta (later known as Susannah) is from the 1960s and is offended by Eddie, who is from the 1980s, calling her "black". In her time period, "negro" was the neutral term and "black" was offensive.
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