Why is the ‘N’ word – you know, nigger – bleeped out in movies that are played on network television?
Honky, cracker, chink or spic isn’t bleeped. The latter two words have just as much history and derogatory inflection but I guess they aren’t as wide-scale? I don’t know.
I used to work with this black guy at my previous job. We talked about the ‘N’ word spoken between white/black and black/black. He told me that black people call each other “nigger” or primarily, “nigga”. That’s the cool term, in his words. But a white person can ONLY call a black person “nigga”.
Maybe it’s kind of like how I refer to my guy friends as “bitch”, “whore”, “slut”, “cock munch” or pretty much any other term of friendship endearment. I guess those don’t have historical inflection of racial injustices?
I’m not sure why “bitch” and “dammit” aren’t bleeped from movies either but I’m not a part of the FCC.
Just a thought since I was watching some movie that was bleeping and not bleeping certain words.
Honky, cracker, chink or spic isn’t bleeped. The latter two words have just as much history and derogatory inflection but I guess they aren’t as wide-scale? I don’t know.
I used to work with this black guy at my previous job. We talked about the ‘N’ word spoken between white/black and black/black. He told me that black people call each other “nigger” or primarily, “nigga”. That’s the cool term, in his words. But a white person can ONLY call a black person “nigga”.
Maybe it’s kind of like how I refer to my guy friends as “bitch”, “whore”, “slut”, “cock munch” or pretty much any other term of friendship endearment. I guess those don’t have historical inflection of racial injustices?
I’m not sure why “bitch” and “dammit” aren’t bleeped from movies either but I’m not a part of the FCC.
Just a thought since I was watching some movie that was bleeping and not bleeping certain words.
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