Big Brother 20 will address JC’s n-word usage, Bayleigh’s response
This is a subject that we wrote about previously: JC dropped the n-word in a conversation with Bayleigh, which he said within a discussion of how it is disrespectful for people to refer to those with dwarfism using a derogatory term. Bayleigh was immediately upset over hearing the world, and the live feeds cut off shortly after that.
You can hear more of our response to this entire issue in the video below (subscribe to CarterMatt on YouTube for more); it’s certainly interesting to see Julie Chen almost promote that this is going to be a part of the upcoming episode. Clearly, this shows a cognizance on her part and production’s part that this is something that is being talked about and the show wants to get in on it. Given the way in which the feeds cut off, it’s rather hard to know in advance just how the conversation between JC and Bayleigh was ultimately resolved. Maybe JC learned something and the two came to a better understanding, though it doesn’t change that what JC said is categorically wrong and he knew it was a terrible thing to say. He could’ve just said “n-word” rather than the word and still made his point.
Can a show like Big Brother actually deliver a nuanced conversation on cultural sensitivity? Well, we’ll have to see. We just hope that whatever turns out here ends up being better than Big Brother 15. Given that this has been a very good season strategically, we want to see it defined more by that than controversy revolving around someone like JC or what happened earlier this season with Angela and Rachel.
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hatequislings
July 20, 2018 @ 6:20 am
If you want the N-word as you call it to go away then stop the black people who use it publicly, loudly and frequently from saying it. But folks like you don’t want to address that issue, you want to wallow in white-guilt and for your own dignity need to stop it. Unless you owned slaves you are NOT responsible for what happened to them. Unless you are the person actively discriminating against minorities, you are not responsible for that discrimination. Further, you, and those like you, need to accept for a fact that blacks discriminate against whites just like they do against Hispanics and Asians. No ethnicity is free from discrimination and all discriminate against those that are not of their same group.
The majority of white people in this country don’t use the word, but no one can tell anyone else what words they cannot use. That you try and impose your censorship demands on others makes you as wrong as Trump and his kind are for promoting racist actions and racist people.
Grow up and when you make your arguments about racist words make sure you clearly spell out that blacks should say that same word anymore than whites should, but steer clear of demanding others be harmed because your feeble sensitivities don’t like their exercise of free speech
hatequislings
July 20, 2018 @ 6:22 am
“Grow up and when you make your arguments about racist words make sure you clearly spell out that blacks should say that same word”
typo in that it should say “…blacks SHOULDN’T say that same word”