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Tarantino: Criticism Over N-Word 'Ridiculous'

'Django' is set in 1858 Mississippi, he says

(Newser) - Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained makes liberal use of the n-word, which has brought plenty of criticism the director's way. Salon picks up on an interview he did with Harvard's Henry Louis Gates in which he defends its use in the slavery drama:
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Santorum: I Didn't Drop N-Bomb on Obama

Candidate accused of using N-word on campaign trail

(Newser) - Blogs were all a-buzz yesterday that Rick Santorum may have nearly called President Obama the N-word, RawStory reports. Addressing voters in Janesville, Wisconsin, earlier this week, the candidate stopped just short of using America's most incendiary insult: “We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like—the...

Anti-Obama Bumper Sticker Not Racist: Seller

Racism on the rise as 2012 race heats up

(Newser) - Forbes has tracked down the seller of the controversial "2012: Don't re-nig" anti-Obama bumper sticker , and Paula Smith claims there's nothing racist about it. "According to the dictionary," the "N word" does "not mean black. It means a low-down, lazy, sorry, low-down...

Girls Basketball Team Suspended for Racist Chant

Pregame tradition said to have gone on for years

(Newser) - Some dozen members of an upstate New York high school girls' basketball team have been suspended over a chant centered on a racial slur. Before games, the Kenmore East High School team would join hands in the locker room, say a prayer, then count to three before yelling the N-word,...

California Yanks Racist Tombstones

Negro Hill graves mislabeled in '50s

(Newser) - After more than 50 years, California is replacing 36 tombstones in an El Dorado Hills cemetery inscribed with a racial epithet. When the US Army Corps of Engineers relocated the cemetery from the Gold Rush-era settlement of Negro Hill to make way for a dam in 1954, markers for the...

Wiping N-Word From Huck Finn Just Doesn't Work
Wiping N-Word From
Huck Finn Just Doesn't Work
OPINION
Jan 5, 2011 1:58 PM CST

Wiping N-Word From Huck Finn Just Doesn't Work

Cord Jefferson outlines three reasons why a replacement doesn't work

(Newser) - A new, school-friendly edition of Huck Finn is set to be published sans its 219 instances of the word "n-----." Writing for Good , Cord Jefferson calls the censorship "silly," and argues that inserting "slave" as a "one-size-fits-all remedy" for "n-----" actually doesn't work....

New Huck Finn Edition Will Remove 'N-Word'

Twain scholar says it's necessary to keep the book available to students

(Newser) - A Twain scholar in Alabama is taking a controversial approach to making Huckleberry Finn available to more students: Removing the 219 instances of the word "n-----" in a new volume to be released by NewSouth Books. In its place will be the word "slave," reports Publishers Weekly...

Jerry Brown Is Right That 'Whore' Isn't the Female Equivalent of the N-Word
 Why 'Whore' Isn't the N-Word 
OPINION
Oct 14, 2010 11:20 AM CDT

Why 'Whore' Isn't the N-Word

Jerry Brown is right: Slur isn't the female equivalent of the N-word

(Newser) - Was Tom Brokaw right when he told California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown that calling someone a “whore” is "to many women the same as calling an African American the 'N' word”? Not quite, Joan Walsh writes in Salon . “Whore” is a “crude and loaded word...

Jon Stewart: Palin's a Hypocrite
 Jon Stewart: Palin's a Hypocrite 
R-WORD VS. N-WORD
Aug 25, 2010 7:01 AM CDT

Jon Stewart: Palin's a Hypocrite

Remember who wanted Rahm to quit over 'retard'?

(Newser) - Jon Stewart set his sights on the Dr. Laura controversy last night, but Schlessinger didn't get the worst of it. No, Stewart's best jab was at Sarah Palin. The ex-governor, you might recall, tweeted in tortured English that Dr. Laura should " reload " rather than resign after her N-word-laced...

Drop the Victim Schtick, Dr. Laura

She's no martyr, and doesn't deserve this 'pity party'

(Newser) - Following her N-word-filled tirade , Dr. Laura Schlessinger pulled the plug on her radio show…in the whiniest way possible. She wants to regain her First Amendment rights? Uh, then she certainly has “a poor grasp of what the First Amendment does,” writes Joan Walsh on Salon . “It...

Dr. Laura Calls It Quits After N-Word Flap

Host 'wants to regain First Amendment right'

(Newser) - Dr. Laura Schlessinger announced on CNN's Larry King Live last night that she will end her radio show at the end of the year, when her current contract ends. The decision comes a week after her controversial, racially charged on-air comments when she said the N-word repeatedly in response to...

Dr. Laura Spews the N-Word... Then Apologizes

(Newser) - Dr. Laura Schlessinger has apologized for using the n-word...six times. In response to a black woman seeking advice on how to appropriately respond to alleged racism from her white husband's friends, Dr. Laura started talking in a way that would make Paul Mooney blush on Tuesday's show. Her words:...

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