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Originally Posted by vesavius

lol it's not 'extreme'... stop being so dramatic

I just think that intention and context matters in these things, and Emily was clearly not being racist. Charley didn't even care about it until Shabna convinced her that she should. A warning would have been fine.

If this position is 'extreme' to you then I am not sure what to say

I agree that 'woke' is overused and often misused, but I understand what it means and use it correctly, if sparingly.

I'm sorry to be the one to inform you, but supporting a white person's right to call a black person the N word is most certainly an extreme racist view, there's no two ways around it. I would also say that's pretty universally acknowledged as a textbook example of racism. There's no context in which a white person calling a black person that word isn't racist, and no amount of mental gymnastics around "intention" will change that. She knew the word she was using and she knew that she was calling a black person that word, she said it with the intention she meant it.

"Emily was clearly not being racist" I have to laugh