BBC say the N word
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Soldato
Absolutely irrelevant. In the time of everyone screaming for equality it should be a case of everyone or no-one says it. Saying one group of individuals can say a word but not another group is discriminatory therefore not equal.
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It was a quote. It is in music all the time anyway. Who cares. I just wouldn't use it as an insult.
Caporegime
Exactly the point. Finally the penny dropped.
If its okay for mr A to say the word its also okay for mr B and mr C.
I dont see BLM campaigning to ban basically all rap/hip hop music.
I also hear asian wannabe gangster/dealers using the word when greeting each other and also calling each other my *something* short for a person of Pakistani origin.
This 2 facedness is not lost or misunderstood by us.
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LOL how many of you lost your **** over Jon Snow saying "white people" a while ago? And that wasnt even an offensive word.
People complaining about people complaining.
People complaining about people complaining.
That's sort of the way I see it. Either a blanket ban on the word or not at all, the phrase "Yo N....." gets used quite often in black communities, possibly having it so one race is allowed to say it but another race isn't could be considered racist.
I should just point out that I don't really care if I'm allowed to say it or not, there was a black guy where I used to work that would quite often say "Yo N....." to me as a joke and I often said it back to him, as a joke. Technically it would have been deemed wrong if anybody from HR walked by, probably because the context doesn't ever seem to be taken into consideration in the same way that a lot of other potentially offensive words could be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53446494
Surprised this wasn't mentioned on here when it happened, the name of the "Dambusters dog" removed from the headstone.
Surprised this wasn't mentioned on here when it happened, the name of the "Dambusters dog" removed from the headstone.
Soldato
It's just a word, people give the word meaning and obviously most importantly, context.
idubbz has a great video on this.
idubbz has a great video on this.
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I am glad the BBC has had so many complaints. I don’t care what the family requested, if the word is regarded as a racist word and it is offensive then there is no right for them to state it uncensored. All over a case of trying to increase the “woke” intensity of the news report. That is what you get for being OTT. Throw the book at them.
But so many people still pay the TV License
That’s the shock.
But so many people still pay the TV License
That’s the shock.
Soldato
Yawn. That argument is so old and irrelevant.
Oh and who is "us" exactly in this context?
You'll have to explain the relevance to this thread with that one as I'm not seeing it.
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What was the dog called ?
We seem to have imported the US cultural oversensitivity to the use of the N-word regardless of context.
I think I remember a few years back, comedian Franky Boyle dropping the word into a critique of some famous person who’d said it on a TV show, chatting with a black comedian ( Reg D Hunter IIRC). No one batted an eye lid, he’d not used it to refer to anyone or as an insult he’d used it in a critique of someone else who had said the word in a dubious way.
In fact he’s used it in jokes too... “Hello, Ministry of War, department of ****** bombing, how can I help?”
No one sensible would assume he’s racist for it (one stupid newspaper did and he sued). He’s criticising/mocking racism.
Few years on and I suspect there is little chance of him repeating that joke or saying the word regardless of context.
I think I remember a few years back, comedian Franky Boyle dropping the word into a critique of some famous person who’d said it on a TV show, chatting with a black comedian ( Reg D Hunter IIRC). No one batted an eye lid, he’d not used it to refer to anyone or as an insult he’d used it in a critique of someone else who had said the word in a dubious way.
In fact he’s used it in jokes too... “Hello, Ministry of War, department of ****** bombing, how can I help?”
No one sensible would assume he’s racist for it (one stupid newspaper did and he sued). He’s criticising/mocking racism.
Few years on and I suspect there is little chance of him repeating that joke or saying the word regardless of context.
What do you think...
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Really ? The word that is verboten ? Seems odd to call your dog that
It's been turned into a slur by racists, just as P*** could be a legitimate contraction of Pakistan(i) in another world, the fact that small minded people used it to abuse people gave it negative connotations.
Are you being serious here or just trolling?