Assertion: nigger | /r/ObjectUse | used by soldiers of both races
Facets:
value: as expressions of bravado
type: PURPOSE
value: in jokes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Nigger" is used by soldiers of both races in jokes and as expressions of bravado ("put a nigger behind the trigger", says the black Corporal "Eightball"), with racial differences among the men seen as secondary to their shared exposure to the dangers of combat: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) says, "There is no racial bigotry here.