snoop1130 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 Chris Rock, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK under fire for using N-word in resurfaced clip by Nick Reilly The comedians used the controversial term in a 2011 special Chris Rock, Louis CK and Ricky Gervais have faced criticism for a video that sees white comedians using the n-word. The clip, which is taken from the HBO special Talking Funny, has gone viral online some seven years after it first aired in 2011. The segment sees the three comedians discussing their craft with Jerry Seinfeld – and Rock calls Louis CK ‘the blackest white guy I know’. “All the negative things we think about black people, this fucker”, says Rock. Full Story: https://www.nme.com/news/tv/chris-rock-ricky-gervais-louis-ck-fire-using-n-word-resurfaced-clip-2424395 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car720 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The N word. Notmesir Notenoughmoney Noway white boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillyflower Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 How things change. When I was a kid at school in Australia, that word was the perfectly correct way to describe American black people. If I remember rightly, the word 'black' was quite rude and unacceptable. Ah that was a long time ago!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neeray Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 1 hour ago, car720 said: The N word. Notmesir Notenoughmoney Noway white boy "Noel". They were discussing Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 It is humor. Get over yourselves. Lighten up. As Clint Eastwood said "PC is for weak people". It is feeble. It is silly. Feels like the planet needs to grow thicker skin. Where I come from, we make jokes about your mother, and nobody gets offended. The whole PC thing has gotten completely out of control. When they are trying to regulate comedians, and dictate what they can and cannot say, society has run amuk. You are going to tell a black man he cannot use the N word? You are going to tell a black man he cannot say you are the blackest white guy I know? How very ridiculous. How prudish. How dumb. Me too and PC have a lot in common these days. Here is a comment Clint Eastwood, the ultimate man's man, said about PC: He said: "I'm never cautious about what I say because, you know, I've been around a long time, what can they do? The political correctness era that we're in is really not doing anyone any good. It's taking everyone and weakening society. It doesn't seem that people have to take themselves so serious. It seems like, I'm just lucky that I grew up in an era where we all lived in an area where everybody joked about everything. Nothing was politically incorrect because everything was always a joke with a sense of humour. People sometimes are losing that and taking themselves and everyone else seriously. I think they're missing a lot and not enjoying the differences that we all have." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoon Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 1 hour ago, spidermike007 said: Here is a comment Clint Eastwood, the ultimate man's man, said about PC: His comment? The same one repeated over and over again, in different guises, on these pages, from other old men: "not like it was in my day" No it isn't.....and it never will be again. Whatever tomorrow is like, it won't be like it was yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dap Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 3 hours ago, Enoon said: His comment? The same one repeated over and over again, in different guises, on these pages, from other old men: "not like it was in my day" No it isn't.....and it never will be again. Whatever tomorrow is like, it won't be like it was yesterday. I don't think "common sense" has a date stamp on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Mcseismic Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 Language apartheid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The NME! Is that still going? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dwyer Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 The NME! Is that still going? [emoji3]I was surprised too !!Used to buy that and “Sounds” back in my youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncc1701d Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 I doubt as many people care as what they think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 It is not the word, it is the context with in it is being used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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