(Ajin 開口)
那個N開頭,最後是R的英文字,中間省略的是:igge。漢字名詞可以直接表示的,"黑巴子" 可說最相近。
這下事情是不小了,因為這是直接公開對美國總統的稱呼,政治上雖然可受到美國憲法的言輪保障,但脫不了直接公開散佈種族歧視的罪名,那是觸犯刑法的。
The WHAT in the White House?
Well-heeled West Villagers will
be in for a rude surprise when they open the latest copy of their local
newspaper and see the headline, “The N—-r in the White House” — except without
the dashes.
The shocking headline in the
WestView News is a reference to President Obama and sits at the top of Page 15
above an opinion piece that criticizes what it calls the anti-black “racism” of
far-right voters.
The convoluted screed by author
and journalist James Lincoln Collier is actually a pro-Obama piece — but that
didn’t stop West Villagers from decrying the printing of the slur.
Columnist Alvin Hall wrote a
piece called “The Headline Offends Me,” which ran below Collier’s column.Photo:
West View News
“It’s disrespectful in any
context to refer to the president of the United
States as the N-word,” said one West Villager, Eugene May.
“If you were quoting something
or referring to the historic context of the word being used, I can understand
the justification,” said May, 31.
Any ironic intent in calling
Obama by the word was no consolation, he said.
“It seems he’s just using it
for shock value,” May added.
Fellow West Villager Joe Megie,
a self-described “black Republican,” also blasted the headline.
“My first take is, it’s sad,”
said Megie, 38, the CFO of Gay Men’s Health Crisis.
What, neighbors wondered, was
the neighborhood monthly’s 86-year-old editor/publisher, George Capsis,
thinking?
‘In this article, however, Jim
[the author] reminded me that The New York Times avoids using the word which
convinced me that WestView should.’
- George Capsis,
WestView News Publisher
“The editorial staff continues
to object” to the use of the word, Capsis writes in a head-scratcher of an
explanation.
“In this article, however, Jim
reminded me that The New York Times avoids using the word which convinced me
that WestView should,” he added.
Collier “wanted to use the
word” to “shock us into accepting that there are people who believe and use
this outrageous word,” Capsis went on.
In the piece, Collier, an
author of novels for young adults, complains that “far-right voters hate Obama
because he is black.”
“The simple truth is that there
is still in America an
irreducible measure of racism,” the piece reads, going on to condemn how “America ’s
increasing tolerance of far-right opinion has made racism more acceptable.”
Capsis, who did not respond to
email and voicemail requests for comment on Saturday, must have been expecting
backlash from the toxic header.
Below the piece ran another
op-ed, written by an African-American columnist and titled, “The Headline
Offends Me.”
“The decision to use the
headline feels misguided to me,” Alvin Hall writes. “I don’t see how its use
benefits anyone, but I do feel all too clearly how it deeply offends me.”
Capsis is no stranger to
controversy. Last year, he
slapped state Sen. Brad Hoylman in the face at a rally for mayoral
candidate Christine Quinn, whom he blamed for causing the closure of St. Vincent ’s Hospital.
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