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@BOpinion. Previously NY Daily News, NY Post; comics nerd, improviser, pun-dit, overthinker, undersharer, Trini-Dad jokes, etc.

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    Robert A George  🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇹🇹‏Verified account @RobGeorge Feb 5

    Robert A George  🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇹🇹 Retweeted ErikWemple

    This is complete and total BS. Sorry, context DOES matter. If a word is so awful that it can't be used in ANY context, well then, sorry, but that means black folks have to surrender it as well, lest we give it air to thrive.https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1357807684674871297 …

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    ErikWempleVerified account @ErikWemple
    Donald McNeil, the NYT science reporter who has been front-and-center on covid, has resigned from the paper over remarks he made on an educational trip to Peru with students in 2019. Here's his apology: pic.twitter.com/zCdvZLQKuM
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      1. Paul Kalimuzo‏ @kali77 Feb 5
        Replying to @RobGeorge

        100% agree, this is too extreme

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      1. Ed Fitzcarraldo‏ @EdFitzcarraldo Feb 5
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        @kittypurrzog tweeted that this word appeared in the @nytimes several times in 2020 alone.

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      2. Armando‏ @ArmandoNDK Feb 5
        Replying to @RobGeorge

        I trust you Rob but this is a high bar. White people need to be extraordinarily careful with that word in particular. The context has to be extremely powerful. I used it in a piece about Richard Pryor when he died. They were the names of his albums and I named them.

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      3. Armando‏ @ArmandoNDK Feb 5
        Replying to @ArmandoNDK @RobGeorge

        And even then I thought about it a lot.

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      1. WalterIV‏ @WalterIV Feb 5
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        Was it used as a pejorative? #contextmatters

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      1. Pradheep J. Shanker‏ @Neoavatara Feb 5
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        Cancel culture is real, and it's out of control.

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      2. Jason Hamby‏ @IPAzRGR8 Feb 5
        Replying to @RobGeorge

        I don't have a similar experience to draw on, but it certainly strikes me that the intent and good faith (or not) of the speaker matters. Otherwise it comes across as vindictive and malicious.

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      3. Robert A George  🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇹🇹‏Verified account @RobGeorge Feb 5
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        Or arbitrary, which can be just as bad.

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      2. Sweet Violet‏ @SweetVioletNY Feb 5
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        I don’t agree. Never for white people or anyone not Black.

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      3. Amanda‏ @RightlyStubborn Feb 5
        Replying to @SweetVioletNY @RobGeorge

        How black do you have to be? My mother was white, father was black, so I'm half. Is it ok for me? What about my kids? They have a white father and a half/half mother, so they're 25% (and have blond hair!). Is it okay for them? If they have kids who are only 1/8th is that ok?

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