>The word nigger means lack of intelligence; ignorant.
>
>This does not exclude any ethnicity. If anyone is a nigger in
>the truest sense of the word, it would be white people. White
>people have continued to me remain ignorant and lack
>intelligence regarding black people and other ethnicities to
>this day.
>

But would the average person use nigger and redneck interchangeably?

No, because they're both racialized. Nigger connotes black ignorance (and often black, in general) while redneck connotes rural white ignorance.

So I get the attempt to de-racialize the word but I think it's a lost cause bc its inextricably been linked to black people by hundreds of years of use.