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If you ran a radio network, you would be OK with your employees calling certain people "darkies" as long as you profited. Does the formula change?

FWIW, not having encountered much of what is presumably saturation coverage of this crisis in US news media, I thought that that was the point of this kerfuffle: that "nappy-headed hos" is race- as well as sex-specific, and nobody would be complaining if he'd said, say, "empty-headed harlots" -- yet would be complaining nearly as loudly if he'd said "biatches" or even "sisters".

It does all slightly remind me of the kerfuffle some years ago over Richard Blackwood (a sort of Happy Shopper Will Smith) referring to HM The Queen as a "bitch". The Broadcasting Standards Council didn't uphold the complaint, on the basis that the potential insult "was using the term as it is currently used, for example, in British and American rap music simply to mean 'woman' and not as a term of abuse".

Peter