Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Razor-sharp, gritty, and warped: that's "Reservior Dogs." Tarantino's characters are awful, slimy,, ignorant guys who throw around words like "nigger," and "bitch" at the drop of a hat, and who function according to skewed, self-dictated systems of morality. We don't liek them. Any of them. But they are real, and complex, and Tarantino manages to keep us hooked...
...defense of speech codes like the one being instituted by the Law School is that they eliminate only ugly words like "Nigger," "Ho" and "Kike," and that the elimination of such words as acceptable because they have no informative value. But this is false. Such ugly words are very informative. Since it is usually only hateful or intolerant people who use such words, these words communicate to others the character of the people who use them. It is important and useful to know who on campus is intolerant, and speech codes make it that much more difficult to identify those...
...Price and Jessye Norman have had to make their way -- determinedly, often courageously -- in an overwhelmingly white milieu. Yet so unpopular has Battle become that she is often openly derided with the crudest kind of racial epithets -- backstage at the Met she is known as the "U.N.," or "uppity nigger" -- and speculations about her sanity are widespread. "She's young, pretty, very talented and very, very screwed up," says a Met insider. "I think she's sick, actually, but I couldn't tell...
...rifle was an Enfield 30.06, and Beckwith's fingerprint was found on the scope; his white Valiant was seen parked nearby; he later bragged at a Ku Klux Klan meeting, "Killing that nigger gave me no more inner discomfort than our wives endure when they give birth to our children." Yet he has remained free...
TIME: Do you have to use the word nigger? It's offensive...