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Stewart Lee - 9 - Political Correctness (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
Dec 2011
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redqueen
(115,186 posts)1. Love this!
The best rant about political correctness, ever.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)2. Conservative party campaign slogan...."If you want a n****r for a neighbor....
vote Liberal or Labour".
Wow....just wow. How openly racist can you get in Britain?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)3. Back in those days , that was 1963 ,
the most common expression here was actually "spades" so I'm surprised they used the one mentioned anyway. To the best of my knowledge the N was still in use in the USA then.
The actual issue is that of giving words power beyond their original intent and meaning. The N word , in this case , was originally simply descriptive of someone from Niger in the late 1700's. It got subverted somehow.
Its like faggot : over here we just eat them.
