Word: niggerism
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...Words are just words. Terms like “nigger,” “kike,” and “spic” are not inherently evil. It is the connotations they pick up over years of use that turns them into instruments of hate. Racial epithets such as these evoke different connotations and become more or less offensive depending on who says them...
...talk ... You're brave now, motherf___er. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger." MICHAEL RICHARDS, comedian, to a heckler AFTERMATH: Cell-phone video of the tirade was posted on TMZ.com and Richards apologized but became the object of many protests and jokes. OUTRAGE FACTOR...
...exaggerate slightly. But our culture has experienced an almost psychotic outburst of -isms in the past year. Michael Richards and "nigger." Isaiah Washington and "faggot." Senator George Allen and "macaca." Mel Gibson and "f__ing Jews...
...terms other people have taken back can worry even edgy comics. A few months ago, I interviewed Silverman, who argued that her material was not racist but about racism (and I agree). But she added something that surprised me, coming from her: "I'm not saying 'I can say nigger because I'm liberal.' There is a certain aspect of that that I'm starting to get grossed out by. 'Oh, we're not racist...
...show is a subjective judgment, and setting these boundaries is as much an aesthetic call as a moral one. It's arbitrary, nebulous and, yes, unfair. Who doesn't have a list of artists or leaders whose sins they rationalize: Elvis Costello for calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger," Eminem for peppering his lyrics with "faggot," Jesse Jackson for "Hymietown," D.W. Griffith for lionizing the Klan or T.S. Eliot for maligning Jews...