Is it now socially acceptable for white people to say the n word?

[Lurker Deluxe]

38. Without a doubt

I have been playing online games since they have been around and use voice coms (teamspeak/ventrillo) in almost all of them.

Raiding in WOW, you are on voice coms or you get the boot, and the successful guilds raiding guilds will not tolerate this kind of language. Then again, they will not tolerate cross talk or any foolishness .. they take their gaming seriously. However, jumping into a PVP group and being invited to a public coms you will hear this kind of language constantly.

Eve Online, which is mostly EU people the n word is part of the normal vocab and if you say anything it will bring on ridicule from the "locals". I have left alliances over this issue ... and war deced them, well ... 'cause I can.

Older games like Ultima/Everquest have an older player base and that kind of language is not tolerated, in either of those games the n word is a TOS and you will get an account suspension for it.

Has a lot to do with the player base, but the newer stuff is crap anyways. Get in some newer games and they have guilds with names as blatant as KKK Inc. or n killers unlimited. It is bad.

A german teamspeak can be so anti-semite sometimes it is hard to listen to, and just stay as far away from the chinese groups as you can as they actually make money playing and will attempt to hack you more than speak to you.

The online gaming word has been deteriorating for years, but back in the day it was expensive so it kept the rif raf out.