>>507882172Because the big taboo of our time is racial differences, just as in Victorian times it was god. If you were to exclaim "God damn it!" in the street back then, you'd be looked at as if you said "NIGGER KIKE!" today. All our insults today are based on biological hierarchies or sexual deviancy.
I do agree with your feeling, as the word nรจgre in French was completely neutral, same as negro in Spanish. But it's a very simple process: when you keep using a word to describe something, the word starts to evoke a certain feeling after a while. So when you say nigger, people think about nigger criminals. When you say blacks, people also think about it because it has been long enough. It's why they want you to say "African American" or in French the reverse word of noir, itself updated from nรจgre, which is "renoi". We even say "un black", because it hasn't penetrated too much yet. Any word you use to describe negers enough time will become an insult, it's not the word that matters, it's their behavior that gets associated with it.
There is no working slur against a straight Aryan male, because we're the uncontested top of humanity. What do they have, "gringo"? "Babtou" as the arabs say? Those words hold no power, all they inform us of is that they don't like us, but we don't feel any shame. Anything else, a woman, a fag, a neger, a spic... any term you use to describe them will eventually become an insult.
We live in deeply racial times, race is the crux of everything, no matter how much egalitarian talk there is denying it, the fundamental thing that matters is race. Marx pretended that class was the greatest divider, and he was utterly wrong, it's race and it's undeniable.