Until this thread started, I did not know there was a filter! I just assumed that the lack of some words I expected to see was an American purist thing.
No, this was not meant to be a racist remark. It was meant to differentiate between the US and UK views on what constitutes 'offensive'.
Regards
Doug
Though, Doug, it is not too many days since I listened to a song --on BBC Worldservice-- were the artwork had been spoiled by a "beep" for each forbidden word he used. The singer was btw american. (I can't remember his name, I'm sorrry.)
This a kind of jolly form for sensorship.
Btw, the norwegian form of "negre" or "nigger" is "neger". So we in fact distinguish between "neger" and "nigger", which we also occasionally use.
This word has been judged by the governement --in an reply to the UN-- to not be a norwegian bad word about �afronorwegians�. We have used the word many many years and do not want to be told, suddenly, that in our context too this is a bad word.
There is a norwegian book called "Hvite niggere" (WHite niggers), written -by the way- by the same author --Ingvar Ambj�rnsen-- whose norwegian film was oscar nominated about 2 years ago (and where my wife appeared in the first scene ;-)) It was probably his break through book.
And do not forget the film "The commitments" (I think) were there is one trumpet player that philosophically says that the irish are the niggers of europe.
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