N-word Appears in Typing Test

[Godwynn]

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Three years and it is just now found! Someone had to put that paragraph in there.

 

[paulc87]

I hope she was really offended

 

[skadistic]

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Three years and it is just now found! Someone had to put that paragraph in there.

I just read the comments and this is apparently from a hundred year old book.

But I'm sure those millions will easy all the emotional suffering.

 

[GenMarshall]

Why not whip up a new typing test instead of complaining about it and still harping over it?

 

[Sims2789]

I just read the comments and this is apparently from a hundred year old book.

But I'm sure those millions will easy all the emotional suffering.

Tort reform is a euphemism for making it harder to sue insurance companies and hold companies accountable for negligence.

Also, this obviously isn't negligence, so don't go harping about her suing them until she does. But even then it'll get thrown out before it reaches trial.

 

[kulade]

I love how overly appalled about this situation the reporters are.

Seems like they almost thing this is news worthy.

 

[Hygro]

Anyone else laughing about how the story was told? (Like vocal tone etc) I kind of felt like the reporters were being careful to express the perfect amount of outrage to not come across the wrong way to anyone. It felt semi-authentic and semi-contrived.

"Not just any word. The N-word!" I was laughing.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Would a typing test have one of the seven dirty words, or a passage of pornography? No.

Plus, these should be more carefully screened...you don't want to have anything in there that would create a shock factor and distract the testee.

 

[warpus]

In black and white?

On her computer screen?

That's crazy!!

For me it usually appears in pink: written with lipstick, on my chest.

 

[amadeus]

Oh, no! She saw the word really cool guy! How horrible! They should pay her a million trillion gazillion dollars for her pain and suffering because of seeing that word, the word so awful that when it is spoken, Satan himself begins to cry.

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[QuoVadisNation]

I hear, in history classes, textbooks about the post-Civil War era have the N-word in it. I was shocked.

Context, shontext, It's totally improper.

 

[skadistic]

I hear, in history classes, textbooks about the post-Civil War era have the N-word in it. I was shocked.

Context, shontext, It's totally improper.

So Tom Sawyer books should be burned?

 

[amadeus]

So Tom Sawyer books should be burned?

Yes. The letters N, I, G, E, R need to be burned. (G twice.) Niger and Nigeria too... just they're too close.

Wheel of Fortune too, since they already give you the R, S, T, L, N, and E. Who knows what kind of slurs you could make with that, you rstlne.

 

[Gaius Octavius]

Next we will have to ban all the old WWII movies because they use a certain epithet for the Japanese. [My gosh, look how the culture of today is! I can't even post it here for fear of running afoul of the rules... ]

Racism is a fact of history, unfortunately, but you don't eradicate it by banning words. The word "Puritan" was extremely offensive to those it now refers to, but we don't seem to have any trouble using it.

 

[Trajan12]

So Tom Sawyer books should be burned?

Wait wait..the case could be made for the novel...but why would a history textbook have that word in it?

 

[amadeus]

...but why would a history textbook have that word in it?

To discuss it in its proper context? Why would a textbook have something about the Holocaust in there?

 

[skadistic]

Wait wait..the case could be made for the novel...but why would a history textbook have that word in it?

Because at one point it was a very common word. Or would you rather have all history white washed.

 

[amadeus]

Because at one point it was a very common word. Or would you rather have all history Caucasian washed.

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[Trajan12]

I'm just wondering what on Earth context it would be used in...there's a vast difference between:

"****** were brought to this country through the Atlantic Slave Trade."

and "The Word (You know what) was used as a racial slur."

So you think either would be acceptable?

 

[skadistic]

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I thought about a "no pun intended" caveat.