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yes, a white person such as yourself should ALWAYS avoid saying the n-word, no matter what the situation. especially when you could've simply typed "n-word" or "n-----" and people would've known what you were talkin about. even when black people tell jokes about it, it doesn't mean you can use it.

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Since you're using it in the context of the show, it's perfectly fine. I have no problem with you using the n-word in this case.

It's like Huck Finn. People say the book is racist since the characters use the n-word a lot during the book. But Mark Twain wrote it in the language of the time in the book when the n-word was common vocabulary.

It just all depends on the context that it's in.

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I'd love to hear an explanation on why it's OK for a person with one pigmentation to use a word and not another. It's a great way to keep people permanently separated in our culture, but beyond that it's just stupid.

Unfortunately it's tough to have a color-blind society when you have to change your language based on what? Color. Makes a ton of sense.

In terms of your article-- if it's in the show and you're talking about the show, there's no possible problem with you repeating it as it happened.

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Brilliant, Morgan. Couldn't have said it any better myself.

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So, Everyone Hates Chris and Boondocks and even Threshold are, like, the bestest shows ever (according to you) but E-Ring and even Boston Legal are 'crap' (according to you).

Anyone else sense a disturbing trend? I don't really care if you have some biased liberal racist hippie agenda, but when you're not able to see beyond that when reviewing, it kinda renders you irrelevant.

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"Anyone else sense a disturbing trend?"

Sorry, but I don't see any trend. Hell, I don't see even a remote similarity between Threshold and Everyone Hates Chris. One is a sci-fi alien hunt and another is a sitcom of a comedians life growing up poor.

Also, different reviewers here review different shows. because one dislikes a particular show does not mean all of them do.

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"I don't see even a remote similarity."

Charles S. Dutton is the boss of bosses in Threshold.

Then again, Joe Morton is the boss of bosses in E-Ring.

Still, there seems to be as much a hippie pro-liberal anti-government agenda by the reviewer as their is for the show with the gushing reviews (Boondocks), a disturbing connection which is making this site less tolerable.

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MovieGoer, it's time to take off the tinfoil hat. There's no "agenda" here, just that some shows suck and some shows don't, and what one person here likes doesn't mean everyone else does. We're actually trying to gear up the 'TV Squad Debates' section of this site so you can see what I mean. If I had the time to watch Boondocks and found that I hated it, I'd definitely go toe-to-toe with Jay here.

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Re: 4

For the same reasons that:

I can have fights with my brother and its ok.
You have a fight with my brother and you and I will have a problem.

I can say my gf is being a total b!tch and a half.
If you say man Malfoy, your girl is such a b!tch, we are going to have some words.

While I can hate on my mother for no good reason.
If you keep insisting my mother is a cheap whore, again you and I are going to have some issues.

Your friend can come from behind and hit you on the shoulder and if you turn around and its him, thats cool, if its some stranger you're going to wonder WTF is his problem.

While you can walk up and grab your girl in her ass, and she might be ok with it. If I was to do it, you and her might want attack me.

While girls amongst themselves can say "oh you're such a b!tch, or "oh i'm so b!tchy today" but god forbid some guy doesnt like waht they're saying and "could you stop being such a b!tch?"

Why a girl can use PMS as a reason for her behavior but if a guy attributes her behavior to PMS, all hell breaks loose.

Do I need to make up any more of these things?
Groups allows certain things amongst each other because they assume the context isn't meant to demean/hurt or start something. An outsider doing those things, tends to be construded as trying to start something unless they can explain themselves quite clearly and quite fast.

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Look, I am fiscally conservative and socially slightly to the left of center, but what does Charles Dutton being the Boss on Threshold have anything to do with the content of the show?

Using your logic, Dennis Hopper is on E-Ring, and he was in Easy Rider, yet a critic here dislikes the show. That kind of blows your conspiracy theory out the door.

The critics here appear to judege their shows by how they enjoy or don't enjoy the content, not on what the political preference of the actors are.

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"Should a white person like myself even refer to "the 'n'-word"?"

When you use a phrase "should a white person", Jay, you are participating in and condoning a racial mindset which also excuses the phrase "should a black person...", and then you get yourself into a shitload of trouble, Jay, with "should a black person....vote, should a black person...go to the same schools....". It's why you do-gooders inevitabely make things worse.

Also your review, Jay, it clear that you're free with the term "white" which pops up multiple times, but never once refer to black people as "black ".

There is a one-sided racially/politically biased mindset implied behind this behavior, and quite frankly I come to this site for the tv reviews, not whatever your agenda happens to be.

I guess coming here I now have to take note of who is writing the reviews, so I can weed out the subjective ones? Well, you're first on the list, Jay, along with the author of all those anti-E-ring reviews.

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Giggity giggity,giggity goo.I'm a black man that says nigga all the time.I don't care if white people say nigga as long as they're not using it offensively.And white people with a ghetto pass(Eminem,Paul Wall,ETC)
should be able to say nigga

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lol you guys are arguing over this?

moviegoer, you are crazy, a conspiracy?
really?
just because u dont agree with someone doesn't mean they gotta be ur enemy. a difference of opinion is all this seems to be.
and did u say "..hippie..agenda"?
hippie agenda!
ha!
you, my freind, have set your people back a thousand years.
word of advice, stop sleeping with your sister, get out of the NRA,
get real man, this is america dude.
and all take a chill pill

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lol you guys are arguing over this?

moviegoer, you are crazy, a conspiracy?
really?
just because u dont agree with someone doesn't mean they gotta be ur enemy. a difference of opinion is all this seems to be.
and did u say "..hippie..agenda"?
hippie agenda!
ha!
you, my freind, have set your people back a thousand years.
word of advice, stop sleeping with your sister, get out of the NRA,
get real man, this is america dude.
and all take a chill pill

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after enduring weeks of solipsistic crap like 12 Oz. Mouse and Squidbillies

I do not think it means what you think it means.

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A lot of people are all riled because the cartoon acually made it to television(so what).Some can't handle the truth and facts of life and struggule of what some African-Americans have to put up with in life every single day. Some even get up rattled when a cartoon fictious child says the word "n***ga" a few times ,truth is its all round us so ya might as well get used to it.When it comes into a little 24min cartoon show people bash it before they see it saying it isnt good enough and its racists and stupid and they dont even bother to look at.Like they always said dont judge a book by its cover see whats inside before commenting.its not made to be racists its just made to enjoy and to have a laugh. Also News flash for ya'll its rated TV-MA ,read hard enough and it says its only for the strong not for the weak and if you cant handle simply just dont watch or ignore it.

FYE:There's a specific reason for the remote and the V-Chip trying using it. thanx for listening

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This show is incredibly funny. Like the review said, you really have to see it to appreciate it. A lot of the humor is in the animation (like the way spit flies out of the mouth of some of the characters when they talk). If you appreciate exaggerated social satire humor like South Park, you will probably like this show. I think people with white liberal guilt will not like this show. It makes fun of black people a lot more than white people. It highlights common black racial stereotype behavior; in my view it ridicules much of the behavior of the black characters and shows how that behavior is detrimental to blacks and facilitates racism. The show generally depicts white people as happy-go-lucky and oblivious. In this way it illustrates that white people have it easier because of their race and are often oblivious to the real racism that occurs against blacks. Bill Cosby would probably like the show but Jesse Jackson would probably be appallingly offended by it.

Regarding the use of the “n-word”: I don’t buy the explanation given in post #10. The examples given were all about whether or not you have a personal relationship with the other person, not what race you are. For example, a white person could call a close black friend “n***er” in a joking manner (if they were both cool). I guess black people can call each other “n***er” even if they don’t have a personal relationship because they are all “brothers”? (I just made a white person joke.) Or is it OK on the show because they are really saying “nigga” (the text actually displayed on the screen in the episode “Nigga Moment” and not “n***er?” (See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nigga).

Of course, you can ignore all this commentary and just laugh at the show because it’s funny as s**t to both n***ers and cr***ers.

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Boondocks is not only the funniest show of the year, but also the most creative. Did I hear someone say Boston Legal was great? T.V. needs more courtroom and medical shows, like I need another hole in my ass.

As far as the n-word is concerned I think they use it so much that it becomes comicle in the show. It looses it's shock factor. People need to lighten up, it's a f-word cartoon. Just laugh and enjoy the satire. Save your P.C. sh*t for the work place.

By the way I am Italian so according to the Sopranos I am a Dago, W.O.P., Guinee who enjoys pizza, pasta, and shooting people in my spare time. I am also in the mob.

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