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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by hwers on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:56AM (#30876922)
Or that these days even people of color saying the n word is condemned, whereas just a few years ago (months?) it was sort of accepted.

Making that into a legal doctrine would be quite tricky.

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Re:Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service ... by rgoulter on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:17AM (#30877054)
John McWhorter wrote an article discussing the word.

e.g. The head of the NAACP used the word in 2003. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/opinion/john-mcwhorter-n-...

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