General opinion on white writers writing the 'n-word'?
I'm just going to start this off by saying my answer to this is no, I don't think this should be a thing but with some exceptions for stuff like historical plot relevance.
But I'm asking because I have a character who would absolutely be the kinda girl that says it freely. However, as I said, I am white, while it would be okay for her to say it if she was real, that's not the case for me. So I was debating the ethics of a white writer writing a character who says the word, and decided that it's not plot relevant, there's no logical reason she would say it besides personality flare, and she curses like a sailor already. So I decided to just drop it. But then I started wondering what other people think of this topic? What other opinions do you guys have about this situation or similar ones?