Was the dog's name for real?

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The "N" word is probably the worst thing you can call someone. It's an open invitation to get yourself beat up or even killed.

That's why we see black people using it all the time in slang? Right. There are even vines where people laugh at the whole idea of a white man using the word *beep* among his black friends.

I also don't see why I should call it 'the N word' when talking about it - do I call you *beep* by using it? Do I call anyone else? If people are so easily offended - that's a problem with them, not me.

It's like somebody telling me 'You know, there are these jokes about Polish people being dumb...' and me diving in 'U wot m8!? Are you calling me stupid?!' - which would be retarded of me.


I wouldn't change the word if I was in charge of it. Tarantino didn't avoid it, even had a movie with white men calling blacks in chains *beep* 'boys' and 'blackies' and it came out just fine. :P
We should take it in-context.

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This thread title is a very blinkered point of view. Although I am aware that *beep* is a grossly insensitive and politically incorrect term for black people in the USA, and has been for decades, it must be remembered that the black population in the UK during and prior to the Second World War was minuscule, and therefore it was a nickname and certainly NOT an insult. My late mother first saw a black person when she was in her middle twenties in our East Midlands town during WW2. He was an American service man. I completed my education over twenty years later in the same town without having been at school with anyone who was not indigenous white. Do not take this common name for a black dog as being designed to insult modern sensibilities.

Edited to add: I am a tremendous fan of Will Hay, but the film of his that I watch least is "Old Bones of the River", simply because of the depiction of black Africans as either (a) loyal to the colonial power and therefore virtuous or (b) duplicitous dishonest scoundrels opposed to the white man is not a premise that has traveled too well down the decades.Yes, there was racism in those days.

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For God's sake, quit bitching about the dog's name.

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