Banning order for racially aggravated abuse

[Devon_Lad]

Rae's friends are probably poets or **** like that, she needs to get down wiv da kids and hang around wiv da west side massif. Real talk.

 

[Alistair20000]

I heard the N word used while watching "The Shining" the other night but Jack Torrance's reference to his wife Wendy as "the old sperm bank" had been deleted.

 

[RaeUK]

Indeed, D_L, they're all pesky poets with attitude ...

 

[STURTZ]

American "people of colour" use the term amongst themselves or in songs in an ironic way, a constant reference to their years of repression, not a word to be used by white people at any time.

 

[StroudGrecian]

What about Oliver's Army? Acceptable?

 

[John William]

What about Oliver's Army? Acceptable?

Yes. Context again. The song was written in the 1970s, is about Northern Ireland, and is definitely not using the word in a pejorative sense against black people.

 

[Antony Moxey]

I noticed that The Dambusters had the name of Gibson's dog blanked out for a number of years when the film was on the telly, yet it appears now to be put back in. It certainly was when I saw the film earlier this year. The film was made in the fifties I think, and Gibson's dog was called N****r (he was a black labrador).

Not making a point about anything here, just an observation really.

 

[grecIAN Harris]

American "people of colour" use the term amongst themselves or in songs in an ironic way, a constant reference to their years of repression, not a word to be used by white people at any time.

But whilst they use it, it's still out in the main domain to be abused. I can't say as I've heard Pakistani's using their equivalent racist slang amongst themselves.

 

[ECFC traveller]

What about Oliver's Army? Acceptable?

Dr Dre takes no offence when Eminem says it to him. All in the context.

 

[fred binneys head]

But whilst they use it, it's still out in the main domain to be abused. I can't say as I've heard Pakistani's using their equivalent racist slang amongst themselves.

Maybe it's a regional thing then, or maybe you've not met many Pakistanis, but I've definitely heard it used by them many times round here (Derby). I've seen quite a few pimped up cars too, with big stickers across the back saying "P*KI POWER".

For me it's definitely a context thing - black people have suffered decades of racial abuse, slavery and other, so non-black people using the N word is abhorrent (unless contextualised, as mentioned a few times above), but black people using it as a show of empowerment is fine by me.