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George Carlin: racial slurs need context to be offensive

submitted by Spacey

7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago

words
, racial slurs

Standup

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, June 5th, 2017 7:16pm PDT - promote requested by WKB.

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Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Mekanikal.

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I miss the days when reason held more sway.

Rather than bowing to intimidation and apologizing, Maher should have run this clip. Carlin's use of the n-word here is potentially more offensive because he used it towards an actual black person rather than Maher's self-deprecating (and frankly humorous) use of it. Unfortunately, I suspect that HBO actually threatened to pull the show if he didn't apologize, so I can see why he did.

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