"epithet" avoidance once again ...

[Charles C Doyle]

Not exactly germane to the present discussion (I'm reminiscing):  About 1970, I was browsing in the University of Southern California campus bookstore--and there was Jerry Farber's book _The Student as Nigger_ shelved in the "Ethnic Studies" section . . . .

--Charlie

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<sigh!> What happened to the good old days when someone like my fellow
St. Louisan, Richard "[epithet] comedian Dick" - wherein _epithet_ is
replaced by "colored, Negro, black, Africn-American," and who knows
WTF else - Gregory could entitle his autobiography Nigger and behold!
It was cool.

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-Wilson
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 wi=
> th
>> 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 wrot=
> e.
>
>
> VS-)
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wro=
> te:
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>>
>> On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:15 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
>>
>> >> From Wired:
>> >
>> > http://goo.gl/PJTHf
>> >
>> >> =93Re: Obama fk the niggar, he will have a 50 cal in the head soon,=94=
> Â 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=92t really count.
>>
>> LH
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