{"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. 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