Must NEVER spell out the N-word

High-profile film critic Shane Danielsen has left the news and culture publication The Monthly after a dispute centring on the use of the N-word in a film review, and a subsequent decision by the magazine not to run his story about controversies at the Berlin Film Festival involving the war in Gaza.

Danielsen, a Hollywood-based Australian writer, filed a review of American Fiction that included the title of the Flannery O’Connor short story The Artificial N----r, which is referred to in the script and is a key part of the film’s storyline about the fallout from a black character’s use of racially loaded language.

Danielsen spelled the N-word out in full in his copy, but the magazine’s editor, Michael Williams, argued it shouldn’t be published. A forthright email exchange followed and the critic quit, citing censorship.

Williams agreed the context “could not be clearer or more unequivocally non-racist”, and argued he shouldn’t quit over the issue. Danielsen later backtracked and apologised for what he called an overreaction.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/conflict-over-the-n-word-and-gaza-surrounds-departure-of-the-monthly-s-film-critic-20240304-p5f9p2.html

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