More nigger bull crap
I was watching a rerun of American History X on Spike TV today.
There was a flashback scene at his family dinner table when Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) was talking about a black teacher who was discussing civil rights and reparations in class.
In response, Derek’s racist father said it was just, “More nigger bull shit.”
Well that’s what he intended to say. Being this was on television, the censors were not about to let such offensive language get through. So they excised the offensive word and dubbed in a nicer, softer replacement.
Instead of saying “more nigger bull shit,” what we heard was, “more nigger bull crap”
Yep, that’s right. They left in the word “nigger,” And took out the word, “shit.” Because, you know, a normal and necessary bodily function is just sooooo much more offensive than the word that conjures the systematic murder, rape and enslavement of an entire race.
Shit is the offensive word?
What is wrong with this country?
Look, I know why they left the N-word in. It’s because the movie was about white supremacists and that’s how they speak. But really, the FCC must know that shit isn’t in nigger’s ballpark when it comes to being offensive. So what’s the point of banning either of them?
It’s all so arbitrary and absurd.
Not in the same ball park as nigger either, but it is my favorite movie-for-tv censor I’ve come across – Repo Man (Harry Dean Stanton / Emilio Estevez) – they replace all ‘mother fuckers’ with ‘MELON FARMERS.’ A true work of beauty to be sure. I’m thinking ‘melon farmer’ might be a good replacement for everything deemed offensive. Just an idea.
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But, if you simply look at the statement as a whole without dissecting it’s linguistic anthropology, does it shock and offend YOU, or do you understand what Derek is attempting to impart?
Derek strikes me by his actions both before, and after the statement offensive statement as a guy who isn’t putting up with anybody’s bullshit, and that he grabs sex, race or religion like a handle to take hold of and berate the person with whom he is enraged at that moment in time..
In the dinner scene recall Derek giving hell to his mother, and to her boyfriend who practiced Judeism. . .
That guy wasn’t particularly a racist, although the movie has the scene at night out in the street where he exploded, that guy hated EVERYBODY!