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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

How do you feel about scripted performances where the N-word is used casually, not in the historic context?

In the film Sinners, the characters were using it amongst themselves as if it were nothing; I don't remember it being used as a slur in the film?

When it comes to scripted performances, I don’t have an issue with certain words being used if they genuinely fit the characters and the world they’re in. Some people really do speak that way, and film or theatre sometimes reflects that reality. In a controlled, intentional setting, it’s part of the storytelling rather than something thrown around casually.

I say that as someone who’s seen both sides of this in my own family. My dad treated that word as one of the worst insults you could ever direct at someone. He only used it at me a handful of times in my entire life, and always in anger. But on my mum’s side, it gets used constantly, almost casually, every other word when the family gets together. That contrast alone shows how divided people still are about what the word means and how it lands.