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I was watching A Bronx Tale on AMC and stuck around to see how they would handle a particular scene, as AMC is pretty bad for censoring. Well they mute out the word 'fucking' and keep the word immediately following it, 'nigger', in the broadcast. I commend AMC for understanding context in the former and condemn them for ignoring it in the latter. When it comes language that isn't directed at an actual person or people, either its all ok or none of it is. George Carlin and his 7 Dirty Words is worth a watch in regards to this example.
In the Papa John's story, they don't explain how the word nigger was used by John Schnatter to set the situation off so I can't really condemn him, even if there is a good chance he did say it in a racist way. Him stating that Colonel Saunders used to say it is simply stating a fact (as far as I understand it to be). That isn't offensive in the least. Provide the original utterance and the context, and then decide if it is something he should be fired over.
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