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A censored version of the play was eventually allowed to be performed, but uncensored scripts, with the censored portions printed in all capital letters, were printed by the theatre's manager. The play became a smash hit. [128] [129] The novel Ulysses by James Joyce was banned in the United Kingdom in 1922 when it was declared obscene. [130]
A style guide to British English usage, H.W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, states in the first edition (1926) that applying the word nigger to "others than full or partial negroes" is "felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity"; but the ...
Stevie Wonder used the word in the album version (but not the single version) of his 1973 song "Living for the City." Freddie Mercury used the word in Queen's song "The March of the Black Queen" from the 1974 album Queen II. In 1975 Betty Davis used the word in her song "F.U.N.K."; Bob Dylan used the word in his song "Hurricane". [33]
Jeffrey Wright has revealed that another actor was brought in to overdub him after he refused to censor his own use of the n-word in Ang Lee’s revisionist Civil War western Ride with the Devil.
British citizens have a negative right to freedom of expression under the common law. [3] In 2000, the United Kingdom required its courts to interpret as far as they can its domestic legislation compatibly with the European Convention , and the guarantee of freedom of expression it contains in Article 10.
A resurfaced clip from 2011 shows Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais using the N-word as Jerry Seinfeld says he would 'never' do so.
On occasion, Sen. Tim Scott, the only black Republican U.S., has found himself to be a target for Twitter trolls. But on Wednesday, the senator's latest response to a racially offensive tweet has ...
In 1999, the British television network ITV broadcast a censored version of the British war film The Dam Busters (1955), with all instances of the name of a dog called "Nigger" removed. ITV blamed regional broadcaster London Weekend Television, which in turn alleged that a junior staff member had been responsible for the unauthorised cuts.