Why isn't it racist for someone to call you "n**i" because you're german?

Question

Why isn't it racist for someone to call you "n**i" because you're german?

Answer 1

It is. Unless they are antisemitic there should be no reason for such name calling. No one is responsible for what the people before them did.

Answer 2

It's more prejudice, than racist.

Answer 3

I hear Jewish people throw this word around a lot.  Especially if you don't agree with the politics of Israel.  It is very derogatory.

Answer 4

yes it's just like calling names to white black anything it is wrong way about going thur life people don't call people names unless they have a good reasonit hurts

Answer 5

It should be, I get pisssed off when someone calls me a "n**i" because they hear my last name or find out that I am a German-American. It makes me mad, because my relatives were living in America when all this shiit happened. My relatives left before WW1, nearly 30 years before ww2 broke out. Also, even if your relatives were alive, only 2% of German citizens were enlisted in the n**i party during it's rule in Germany, it is just like America, there are parties like democrats and republics. Also Hitler didn't get elected by the people to his power, he did it himself without a free election, so Hitler wasn't chosen!

Answer 6

It very much should be. I see the term "n**i" used way more often than it should be, applied all out of proportion.

Answer 7

I was called many weird things in school. I once told the other kids I was part German, so the n**i name was used then I am part Ukrianian, called a communist. Native American so again stupid name were used. It is just childish behavior.

After awhile as a kid I would just tell people I was French.

Answer 8

n**i was a political party, not a race or religion. However to many people use it as a slur. I am German and though I find it somewhat offensive, I consider the source.