Okay... Maybe instead of whipping someone to shreds (which let's face it sounds really violent and unpleasant,) the slave owner could have a very stern word with him instead, and say nasty things like "you're my property and you have to do what I say as this is olden times when slavery is legal and there's nothing you can do about it so there!" and the guy could say "this is horrible, slavery is really bad and shouldn't be allowed. I hope in years to come it's outlawed", and then the slave owner retorts "HA! that'll never happen! Never ever ever!" and then the audience would know slavery was bad and reflect and think "Wow, they really shoulda known better back then, thank goodness we've progressed since and that slave owner was proven wrong" and then they'll feel better about things?

I think this is far better. You can also just say I hate black people, don’t have to use a word that means black people are less than human and it’s acceptable to enslave them.

I was reading a part and someone else was reading another part and they called my character a F word and before she read the part I cut her off and said we aren’t going to say that word in class.

Bobo fett must be delusional if he thinks I make threads or spend my time trolling people.

I don’t think the N word should ever be said because it shows people that slavery is to some degree acceptable. Even if it’s just acting, the person is acting in acceptable enough of a manner to be the lead role and for people to hear them say those words.

Yes I think there’s a huge difference and you guys are downplaying the power of perception

damn, this OP sucks

I don’t think it’s ever ok to say the N word, but apparently plenty of people do. Just goes to show that people are more racist than they like to admit.

The N word should be treated the same way here that Germany treats their N word over there.

Germany specifically exempts artistic depictions of nazism from their ban.

Are you including screenplays in these

Oh you can properly get to **** here!

Classic SJW response "If you don't agree with me then your just racist". This is so disingenuous to the arguments being made by pretty much everyone else in this thread

It can exempt them. It’s not by default
One side says they don’t want to hear racist words in art

The other side has said they enjoy hearing racist words in art

It is pretty simple to see that the people who enjoy hearing racist words and prefer to hear them over not hearing them has more racism in them than the other side


All the best

Yes. Even video games.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stra...ch_section_86a

Who said they enjoy it? In some cases it would be a ridiculous whitewashing to not say them in a piece of art.

We aren’t talking about cherry picked choices.

There’s a list of like ten people above who want to hear racist words in the media. They just expressed as much.

If they didn’t want to hear racist words in the media, then why would they prefer to watch a movie where, everything else equal, uses the N word while the other doesn’t.

Of course they’re not going to let glorification of nazism through just because it’s art. Things like parody, historical and critical depictions are the reason for the exemption.

Man this is so stupid. No one here is saying they enjoy the racism just that they enjoy a good price of art that is accurately depicting the time period it's set in.

No one has said they want them. People have made the argument that it’s constitutional and some scenes in films would either be absurd or have less power/teaching effect without them.

I'm a jew and I wouldn't want the various shakespeare anti-semitic bits just washed out of the plays. Put the plays on with the original words, or don't put the play on. (or update it fully for a modern audience).

Audiences don't need protecting.

But not to the degree portrayed. My father used to enjoy pointing out to me that many movies used Jewish actors to portray nazis.

Why do you think this is about protecting the audience?


Do you guys think that Tarantino films without the N word would be worse?

I think it's pretty clear that Trantino could make any film without the N word and they would still be great. Obviously it's necessary.

You meant unnecessary/not necessary right


Do you think it would be better or worse without the N word?

Yeah not necessary.

Honestly the only N word line I can remember is from pulp fiction. It might be necessary there.

That’s fair. Thank you for being open to the idea

"Dead black people storage" really just doesn't work. You'd have to rework the whole scene. I'm confident that Tarantino could do it.

Black peoples storage works fine

More interesting are the bigger questions that you allude to in your OP about what sort of social responsibility filmmakers and artists in general have and I'm sure eventually the discussion will move in that direction.

I read an interesting piece on the topic some months back and will try to find it.