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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Thu Dec 15, 2011, 11:21 AM Dec 2011

Stewart Lee - 9 - Political Correctness

Try some UK humour

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Stewart Lee - 9 - Political Correctness (Original Post) dipsydoodle Dec 2011 OP

Love this! redqueen Dec 2011 #1

Conservative party campaign slogan...."If you want a n****r for a neighbor.... Rowdyboy Dec 2011 #2

Back in those days , that was 1963 , dipsydoodle Dec 2011 #3

redqueen

(115,164 posts)

1. Love this!

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 12:28 PM

Dec 2011

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....

Reply to redqueen (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 01:37 AM

Dec 2011

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 ,

Reply to Rowdyboy (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 16, 2011, 05:32 AM

Dec 2011

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.

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