pcr calls it a tower of babel. i say if you use the euphemism you may as well use the word cause either way you're using the word by inference or outright speaking;
A Disintegrating Tower of Babel.
Paul Craig Roberts
On August 24 the New York Times asked if we should read Mark Twain’s book, Huckleberry Finn? The writer, Sam Sifton, gives pros and cons. https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20260824&instance_id=180840&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=the-morning&paid_regi=0&productCode=NN®i_id=319886775&segment_id=225312&sendId=225312&uri=nyt://newsletter/e3bcab9b-f358-58a8-9cfd-f3a9bd5dd796&user_id=16e8eb830e4bd362dd416f1daa9d25b1
Sifton says that reading the book in prep school in NY City made him uncomfortable because the racial slur “nigger” appears more than 200 times. On the other hand, he quotes the literary critic Ruth Franklin who says the novel should still be taught because it is uniquely able to convey the structures of racism embedded in American society.
In other words, it is another weapon in the white liberal’s arsenal to prove that America is racist as the NY Times 1619 Project maintains.
Notice that for Sifton and Franklin, the proof of racism is the use of the word “nigger.” As is universal among white people today, the use of this word imputes racism. This false imputation shows the ignorance of white people who have never lived among blacks, as Southern people have.
Black Americans were commonly present in our homes, as Hispanics are today in many American homes. They helped with household cleaning, with meal preparation, with caring for and raising children. You don’t employ people in these intimate roles whom you despise...........more............
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