I would imagine that the majority of posters on thread are white males, average age 40s or 50s, working/middle class and therefore unlikely to have been on the receiving end of much racial abuse in their time. I know some who have and it isn’t nice. The use of words and language are powerful weapons these days.
I think within some there is a desire to actually be offensive in the interests of “historical accuracy”.
If in order to tell a story of bravery and ingenuity a trivial fact has to be changed – so what?
It won’t be the only factual error in the movie I bet.
youre quite correct i once lived pretty much in moss side manchester in my early 20’s so me being white was obviously never called anything from blacks !!
race is always there , taking the pi** will always be there
the only time words like this offend me is when they ” are used to deliberately offend “
and that is what todays society has lost the abillity to do sepperate deliberate offence from the words just being used as communication
it is intresting to watch commedians , rappers , etc etc use the word with gay abbandon , yet as soon as it is a factual historical dog/mission name people go appopleptic !
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