Can you ever say nigger without making an insult?

""Woman is the Nigger of the World" was a 1972 song by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The phrase was originally coined by Ono during a magazine interview in 1967. Lennon later said it took him until 1970 to 'dig it'.

The song lambasts the traditional role of woman's subservience to man across all cultures. It was banned from radio airplay because of the word 'nigger' although many prominent blacks, including Dick Gregory, spoke out in defense of the song."
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Read the complete lyrics on the following link:
http://www.john-lennon.com/songlyrics/songs/Woman_is_the_Nigger_of_the_World.htm

"How many Niggers are here today?" was the start up phrase the American, Jewish stand up commedian, Lenny Bruce used in some of his shows. Then he started counting; 1 nigger, 2 niggers, 3 niggers, 4 niggers, 5 niggers..... Lenny was, during the fifties, joking and provoking about jazz, moral philosophy, politics, patriotism, religion, law, race, abortion, drugs, the Ku Klux Klan, Jewishness, and the Roman Catholic Church. All the subjects that were taboo to joke about during that time.
You want to know more about Lenny Bruce, see the film Lenny with Dustin Hoffman.

The words Negro and Nigger were introduced and used when slavery started. This is to imply that people with black skin was a lower standing race than people with white skin. This is to justify handling black people as merchandise and treat them as cattle.

I believe that both John Lennon and Lenny Bruce tried to use this insulting word in a creative context. I believe Lenny Bruce tried to neutralize the strong insulting power this word carries by repeating it over and over again. Or maybe he just enjoyed being provocative.

The American history of slavery is full of all kinds of unimaginary abuse against black people. Maybe it will never be possible to neutralize this word. Maybe it is not meant to be neutralized. Maybe it has to be there to remind us about an ugly part of our history.

Even today this word is on the agenda in Sweden. Recently I saw people, both young and middle age, wearing t-shirts with a slogan, something like; "what's wrong with nigger-ball when Finnish fingers are OK?".

In Sweden we have a round chocolate ball that was commonly called nigger ball (Negerboll in Swedish) until during the seventies (when the Swedes got better educated) it was officially changed to chocolate ball. Finnish fingers (Finska pinnar in Swedish) is a snack you can eat as an appeatizer or eat like peanuts to a beer.

The question on the T-shirt shows a huge ignorance about the different meanings of the word Nigger and Finnish. An ignorance that makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Or, maybe less likely, the people making these T-shirts look down on people from Finland too? This assumption is not impossible since the Finnish immigrants in Sweden have been treated and looked upon as second class citizens.

Or, even more unlikely, the T-shirt maker wants to say that it is as bad to say Finnish Fingers as Nigger-ball?

Two questions:
-Why do you think people print a T-shirt like that?

-Do you believe the word Nigger ever will be neutralized and not be taken as an insult if used on somebody?