Is there a word for this?

Factual Questions
1

Is there a word for when someone gets to use a particular slur because they are a member of targeted group, but nobody outside their group is allowed to use the slur?

Or if someone is a resident of a denigrated city, they are allowed to denigrate the city, but no outsiders can say something bad?

I think it could apply to families too… our family can insult each other, but nobody outside the family can say anything bad.

Seems like a pretty common phenomenon, but I can’t think of any word to describe it.

2

Guess there is not. Oh well… it was worth a shot. It’s not like you can use a dictionary to find out if there’s such a word.

3

That gives rise to a more general question: Is there a word to describe that category of concepts each of which has no name?

4

Ingroup bigotry is the term I’ve always used.

5

Hey, that’s a pretty good phrase… did you coin it yourself?

6

Yes, although many other people also did independently and, um, first.

7

You might also try on blason populaire. It’s a little broader than the OP, but it covers it.

8

I would call it (beware - slur used only to illustrate modern usage) “the nigger phenomenon”, seeing as that seems to be the first and most prominent example of what you are describing.

9

“Ingroup,” though, has some actual history of usage within the sociological realm so that would probably be a better choice. “Nigger phenomenon” doesn’t really look all that swell as the name of an academic paper.

10

Regarding the recontextualizing and proprietary in-group use of ethnic slurs and such, I’ve heard that described as appropriation. Here’s Wiki on “cultural appropriation” – although the article doesn’t cite this particular use as an example of the phenomenon.