BBC hit with 18,600 complaints for use of n-word in news report

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Corporation aired racial slur twice in one week

“It’s for this reason they asked us specifically to show the photos of this man’s injuries and were also determined that we should report the racist language, in full, alleged to have been spoken by the occupants of the car.”

 

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Utter bullshit. Context matters, and she was reporting the news as it happened. Direct your anger at the person quoted, not the reporter. It would've been offensive had she censored herself.

imagine letting a word have so much control over your life

Black fragility.

I can only presume the outrage of the N word is its Northerner!

Never learn!

Pricks arent even sorry

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