NickFun wrote:Merry Andrew wrote:With apologies to Snood, the word "nigger" could not be excised because then no poster in the Books Forum could make a reference to Joseph Conrad's classic The Nigger of the Narcissus.
To be politically correct it should be renamed "The African-American of the Narcissus
I suppose you're just keeping things lighthearted, and I appreciate that.
But just for the record, I don't consider not using the term "nigger" for black people anymore "politically correct" than not using the word "bitch" for women. I don't think people abstain from their use because of some imposition on them by some "PC police" or whatever - I think they abstain because some words are patently, definitively offensive - without ambiguity.
