> “I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she

> “I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” Really...fired for that? Ridiculous. It's as if people can't understand context, intent and probably intonation. Why don't they start demanding for researchers who study uses of insults to be fired because "racial slurs can't be used anywhere regardless of context"? That the problem with absolutes, if you were to enforce them " literally every single time" a lot would go wrong and certain things would become impossible. What a joke that paper is