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These days, I'd bet a very high percentage of n-bombs dropped by white people occur when quoting black comedians, or music. The Chapelle Show alone may well acc

• wutbrodo 11y ago
  > Oh, and movies where it's played for laughs. Blazing Saddles, Django Unchained. You almost never see this happen in mainstream culture (in fact, the Chappelle show is one of the only notable examples of this and this is precisely one of the main reasons it was considered so edgy and controversial). The two examples you described are 1) from 40 years ago, when culture was a lot more comfortable with usage of the word, and 2) a period piece about American slavery. Usage in the latter movie has nothing to do with the fact that it's "played for laughs", since you could see the same thing in 12 Years A Slave (which came out less than a year later and was very much not a comedy).