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>>>I find it interesting that in the discussion on the >>>show, nobody mentioned slurs directed at >>>others--different ethnicities, professions, sexual >>>orientations, and so on have their own buzz words, >yet >>>these were never uttered on the show. >> >>Did anyone realize that this showed aired on the last >>possible airdate for Black History month? That's why. > >Perhaps. But in any real discussion I've been in on >the subject, *somebody* brought up the H-word, the >S-word, the D-and-W-words, Q, F, M, P, D, the other S, >J, and a whole host of others. It would have been more >realistic, even within the context of Black History >Month. >>> >>>How about this one--? They keep on referring to it as >>>the most reviled word in our language, yet it may be >>>uttered on broadcast TV. Outside of "Scared >Straight," >>>I'm not aware of certain less-reviled words being >>>deliberately so used without a fine attached. >> >>I think the only reason they were able to do it was >>because they had the warning message before the show, >>and before they would come back from commercials. > >I don't know. I've seen it used before both with and >without disclaimers (the first time being on Hawaii >Five-O when Dan had to go undercover as a white >supremacist). But outside of Scared Straight, (and a >few uncensored movies during the late '80s, while the >FCC had a particularly ambiguous regulation), I've >never seen the F-word or the S-word go unpunished. > >BTW, Su--nice to read a post that is actually ON the >subject of the thread.
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