Um…
No one here is doing that, and no one that I know of IRL does that.
To imply that some people’s conscious choice to not use a historically hateful slur is somehow a denial of reality is highly disingenuous, especially when your original contention was that it’s somehow not possible to have an ‘intellectually honest’ conversation about racism in America without being able to use the word “nïgger” freely.
O_o
That’s a bit of a straw man there, as no one said nor even implied that you shouldn’t.
Blazing Saddles is and will always be a great comedy that serves as a witty social commentary on the racist tropes that have long pervaded the “great American western.”
And Mel Brooks didn’t use the word in his film arbitrarily; he was punching up at a certain subset of people who are foolish enough to feed into mindless bigotry and preconceived stereotypes…
