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I was always more concerned about the Times writer who got fired for using the N word while listing words that shouldn't be said.
by colinmhayes 5y ago
I was always more concerned about the Times writer who got fired for using the N word while listing words that shouldn't be said.
- inglor_cz 5y agoHis name is Donald McNeil. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/donald-mcneil-new-york-times-racial-slur.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/donald-mcneil-ne... "We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent," Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn said in a memo to staffers. This "regardless of intent" is a pretty scary standard. Ancient magical thinking which placed taboo on certain words at least had the excuse that people really believed that uttering such words would indeed summon literal demons or other malevolent supernatural entities. Joe Kahn probably does not suffer from such superstition and yet behaves as if he did.
- vanusa 5y ago"We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent" Which is plainly false of course. Within +/- 2 weeks of that famous pronouncement there was a Times Magazine article (no less) featuring that very word, spelled out in full.