CMV: The n-word shouldn't be used to refer to anybody who shouldn't be using the word themselves
Okay, this is NOT "why do black people call each other the n-word" ... that makes perfect logical sense to me. What doesn't make logical sense is black people calling other people that.
A good example of this is Snoop Dogg's roast of Justin Bieber ("n***a you bought a monkey"). It's weird to me that it's totally normal for Snoop to call Bieber something that would cause shock waves, maybe even end Bieber's career, if he said the exact same thing in the exact same playful way to Snoop. It happens all the time, most commonly that I've seen in standup comedy ... there's "this n***a said so-and-so" or "that n***a did so-and-so" all over the place. Another example is that famous Russell Westbrook response to a reporter question.
I'm not saying it's morally wrong to do that, or that anybody who does that is a bad person, there is clearly no bad intent behind using it like that. But I just don't think it makes sense - if the goal is to reduce the use of that word, the normalization of this kind of usage seems counter-productive to it.
p.s. I'm not black or white, and I'm not originally from the USA ... in case any of that matters
UPDATE: A lot of the comments are taking this in the direction I did NOT want it to go (which is why my very first sentence in the post is what it is). I'll reiterate that it makes perfect sense for the black community to reclaim/re-appropriate the use of the word within the community in a positive way to take away its power, and that is NOT what my post is about.