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Director Jason Lei Howden & White Film Critics Minimize Racist Slurs

DarkSkyLady
7 min readFeb 22, 2020
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Bullying is wrong. Yes. But not every call out is bullying, nor should it be construed as such. People are routinely misusing words and attributing them to the wrong people.

Enter director Jason Howden, who is faulting everyone because a person, who it was learned used the n word a few years ago, attempted suicide after being called out — bullied by some — online.

Racist. Slurs. Are. Abusive.

If you are caught using one either through social media DMs or on video the likelihood is that you’ve used it plenty of times prior to that instance, you were just caught that time. Could it be just once? Yes but it’s unlikely.

They also kept going on about the years that have passed and “people change”. The time that has passed is neither here nor there because a person could still be using the racist slur after that moment and, again, racist slurs are a form of abuse.

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DarkSkyLady

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