I can't think of an analogue globally to the word, in the sense of reappropriating a hateful slur to a 'term of endearment'. The K-word (k*ffir) in South Africa is legally sanctioned. Coloured Namibians don't identify as *baasters*; they embrace themselves as Coloured.
It's why the N-word is such a peculiar case. As is true with any charged term of language, either anyone can say it or no one does.
I can't think of an analogue globally to the word, in the sense of reappropriating a hateful slur to a 'term of endearment'. The K-word (k*ffir) in South Africa is legally sanctioned. Coloured Namibians don't identify as *baasters*; they embrace themselves as Coloured.
It's why the N-word is such a peculiar case. As is true with any charged term of language, either anyone can say it or no one does.