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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Harry, white folks may not have found the term offensive.
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Well, that's really what matters, isn't it, A.C. being white. Offensiveness is
not in the eye of the beholder, it's a conscious choice on part of the offender. You can be accidentally rude, insensible, in fact a lot of things, but not offensive. A slur isn't a slur unless you mean it to be one. A.C. wrote for a largely white audience to whom "Ten Little Niggers" was nothing but a reference to the old children's rhyme.
I'm not a huge fan of her work. I think she was a rather mediocre writer, mass-producing mediocre crime novels all according to the book. She was clearly in it for the money (although there's nothing wrong with that as such). What she almost certainly was not, however, was racist.
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She may not have named her book with the intent of causing offense ...
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My point exactly.