{"id":22524,"date":"2010-08-18T18:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22524"},"modified":"2010-08-19T08:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:03:30","slug":"when-did-it-become-the-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22524","title":{"rendered":"When Did It Become The N-Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: Laura Schlesinger announced that she would be leaving radio because she had used the n-word.<\/p>\n<p>From what I heard, it was entirely to say that nobody should use the n-word.<\/p>\n<p>She has been pilloried for condemning the use of the n-word.<\/p>\n<p>When did it become the n-word? Everybody allowed to use it on television and on radio. You weren&#8217;t allowed to call somebody the n-word because that&#8217;s evil but you used the word to describe what people would say.<\/p>\n<p>But it has become the n-word, I have no choice. I write it out when necessary. Some of my publications spell out the entire word, some use n-word.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Laura said, hey, blacks are using it. That&#8217;s wrong. Nobody should use it. And she&#8217;s pilloried.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bad sign for American intellectual life. When American liberals say let&#8217;s have an open dialogue about race, it reminds me of when Mao said let a thousand flowers blossom. Then people spoke their mind and he killed people who spoke their mind.<\/p>\n<p>The left says let&#8217;s have an open dialogue on race. Then you do and you&#8217;re called a racist. People understand you shouldn&#8217;t talk honestly about race.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.frumsatire.net\/2010\/08\/18\/kollel-wives-produce-dr-laura-greatest-hits\/#more-6495\">BH posts to FrumSatire<\/a>: You know what I didn\u2019t like about Dr. Laura? She was just plain mean. Her voice was often filled with negativity and lack of compassion. That is why I now listen to Dennis Prager- he may be a pompous ass, but his message is the same as DL and he goes about it in a much kinder way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: Laura Schlesinger announced that she would be leaving radio because she had used the n-word. From what I heard, it was entirely to say that nobody should use the n-word. She has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=22524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23273,36],"tags":[29761,23275,23322,23274,1453],"class_list":["post-22524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-laura-schlessinger","category-race","tag-dennis-prager","tag-dr-laura","tag-laura-schlesinger","tag-n-word","tag-radio-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22531,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22524\/revisions\/22531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}