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N-word tape

Aug 18, 2018 11:17PM PDT

If this tape exist and it gets released to the public would it make a difference?

I suspect not.

There would be a lot of hot air from both sides of the aisle and both sides of the media but in the end.....zip.

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Does anyone ever consider that
Aug 19, 2018 2:51AM PDT

context matters and that there are very legitimate reasons to use words that are "off limits" when used critically? If a child...(and I should probably not use that word when responding to you)...came and asked you "what does that mean"? would you not tell them? Well...if you did, you'd be using that word and some reporter just might try to seize the opportunity to trash your reputation. Of course there are many other contexts where I think the word can be used legitimately as long as it's not purposed to denigrate.

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... reading Huck Finn aloud, perhaps.
Aug 19, 2018 3:26AM PDT
Happy
There are other times, of course.
Just a few years ago, reading about the very first 1969 edition of the American Heritage dictionary, I learned that it was the first in the mainstream to define the f-word in full. From ME f***en, directly, so it's certainly one of the "four letter words" that used to identify speakers as despised Anglo-Saxons instead of cultured Norman French. And, it's "borrowed from the MDutch fokken", "to strike", which means the old vulgar pun about Fokker fighter aircraft was more direct than we knew.
But I digress. The Bible puts the onus on the speaker, to choose his words to avoid offending without scholarly reason. 1Cor ch. 10 e.g.
I mentioned before, I think, that our word here generated some controversy when the very White Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction came out. His script had some Black characters using the word to refer to each other. The equally famous and very Black director Spike Lee said that was wrong because 'we don't do that'. The White guy got it right; I lived in the area of S California where it was set, and heard it all the time.
Well, there's the bell, guys. Pop quiz on Friday.
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Are you suggesting
Aug 19, 2018 3:55AM PDT

that a "child", perhaps Don Jr, came to his dad, Don Sr, and asked him what "THAT unspeakable word means" and Dad would use "the word" in his answer?

What child would ask DJT THAT question?

Where would this child hear the term?

At the dinner table with dad?

So many scenarios....a tape of the conversation might answer some of the questions, it could show context.

I doubt there is a recording of a "child" asking that question. It might be a good scenario for TheRUMP to look into though, not that many people would believe him.

RE:"what does that mean"? would you not tell them? Well...if you did, you'd be using that word

I can answer that question without using "that word" in the answer.

A hint:a word referring negatively to African-American people

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Somehow I doubt
Aug 19, 2018 4:42AM PDT

IF the child used the word it was done in a friendly or constructive way.