"epithet" avoidance once again ...

[victor steinbok]

And here's another case involving Twitter. The question is whether the
player, Twitter or ESPN decided to bleep "douchebags":

Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, apparently reacting to reports that
> some of the plaintiffs in the Brady lawsuit were stalling negotiations with
> their demands, voiced his displeasure Tuesday afternoon on Twitter.
> "Sigh, and once again greed is the operative byword. 'Congrats Brees,
> Manning, Mankins, and Jackson for being 'that guy'. #d-----bags," he wrote.


VS-)

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

>
> On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:15 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
>
> >> From Wired:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/PJTHf
> >
> >> “Re: Obama fk the niggar, he will have a 50 cal in the head soon,” read
> one
> >> of the messages posted on the Yahoo finance site by Walter Bagdasarian.
> >>
> >
> > From LA Times:
> >
> > http://goo.gl/5At94
> >
> >> The observation that Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon" and a
> call
> >> to "shoot the [racist slur]" weren't violations of the law under which
> >> Bagdasarian was convicted because the statute doesn't criminalize
> >> "predictions or exhortations to others to injure or kill the president,"
> >> said the majority opinion written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt.
>
> Besides, the actual racist slur, as opposed to the [racist slur], was
> misspelled, so it doesn’t really count.
>
> LH

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