I think he should go for it.

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"When I'm in command, every mission is a suicide mission!" -Capt. Zapp Branigan
The United Church of the Latter Day Tangential Tarts

Historical accuracy is historical accuracy.

If he uses it I bet they take pains to minimize it's use, and write a scene where a minor character expresses discomfort with the word.

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Man up.

Why, o why is this a problem. It is history, and we should tell history, also the uncomfortable bits

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

I agree....history is history and should be written as accurately as possible. Some people have been missing that point lately.

I remember when I watched the mini-series, "Roots." It made a big impression on me. Had some of the "bad parts" been left out due to political correctness, I don't think it would have been nearly as effective. History has lessons....and to learn we must see the good, the bad, and the ugly.

That word was common back then. It's just the way it was.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

..screw political correctness, if you are going to tell the story accurately then you tell the story accurately....

My grandfather (who fought in WWII) had a black lab called (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) too...He wasn't a racist either, so folks are going to have to do a little research, find their balls, and tell the story the way it happened...

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The last time this country mixed politics with religion, people got burned at the stake.

I don't know the history of the word, but if it was as offensive to blacks then as it is now, I say use it.

If the word was not as offensive as it is now, I say substitute it with another word that matches the historical impact. In maintaining the historical accuracy of the word, you could really screw up the historical impression of the guy using it. The latter is more important.

118 definitions in the urban dictionary!!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)


Most historians agree, the word is a derivative of the Spanish word for black and the location most of the blacks used for slave trade by the Dutch & Portuguese, to recognize where they haled from, the Nigerian basin!!!

My great, great, grandmother’s nickname was nig, short for you guessed it “(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)”! They called her that because she worked from the time the sun came up until the sun went down, and never complained!! The name we kids called her was meema which means crossword puzzle in Japanese, I never resembled her to a crossword puzzle, but they were right, she worked more in a day than most people worked in a month!!!

JP5;
You must be referring too, the "911" GOP/ABC/Disney production??? Thanks for clarifying that!!!

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There are only two things wrong with this great nation of ours, democrats and republicans!

Not necessarily in that order.

hmm that was in 2006... I wonder what ever happened to this movie.


BTW the word being robocensored is the N word.