Re: [Roger Ebert] Much ado about the N-thing

'Nigger' is currently more combustible, at least in America.
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:

> The argument is often put forward that a young reader might be traumatized
>> by finding a word in a 19th century novel that he hears a hundred times a
>> day.
>>
> [...]
>
>> I applaud their daring in not blacking out "****."
>>
> So Ebert *does* censor himself at times. What is it about a four-letter
> word that people hear "a hundred times a day" that's different than the
> "n-word"?
>
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