stephen the barbarian
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Walter Mosley, a now former staff writer on star trek discovery, has left the project after sharing an experience of his where he quoted an la cop who had used racial slurs,
Mosley was hopeful that the story could help in the writing process, but he was called in to hr for the matter
his full recollection of the matter can be found here, Opinion | Why I Quit the Writers’ Room, in a sunday opinion piece
here's a vid editorial that lead me to the story
now, there's some things to unpack here
Mosley was hopeful that the story could help in the writing process, but he was called in to hr for the matter
his full recollection of the matter can be found here, Opinion | Why I Quit the Writers’ Room, in a sunday opinion piece
(bolding mine, i've also replaced the slurs so as to not attract asshats)Earlier this year, I had just finished with the “Snowfall” writers’ room for the season when I took a similar job on a different show at a different network. I’d been in the new room for a few weeks when I got the call from Human Resources. A pleasant-sounding young man said, “Mr. Mosley, it has been reported that you used the N-word in the writers’ room.”
I replied, “I am the N-word in the writers’ room.”
He said, very nicely, that I could not use that word except in a script. I could write it but I could not say it. Me. A man whose people in America have been, among other things, slandered by many words. But I could no longer use that particular word to describe the environs of my experience.
I have to stop with the forward thrust of this story to say that I had indeed said the word in the room. I hadn’t called anyone it. I just told a story about a cop who explained to me, on the streets of Los Angeles, that he stopped all [blacks] in [irish] neighborhoods and all [irish] in [black] neighborhoods, because they were usually up to no good. I was telling a true story as I remembered it.
Someone in the room, I have no idea who, called H.R. and said that my use of the word made them uncomfortable, and the H.R. representative called to inform me that such language was unacceptable to my employers. I couldn’t use that word in common parlance, even to express an experience I lived through.
here's a vid editorial that lead me to the story
now, there's some things to unpack here
could Mosley have used less provocative words? maybe, but on the other hand he wasn't using it in a racist way, but to highlight the racism in an incident he'd been party to
does this mean that n-word privilege is starting to die?
is this a case similar to the south park flag? (i just know that is going to come up)