[steeljack]

Originally Posted by Eric

But when you are off to flood the Nazi armaments factories the odd racial slur doesn't matter ... Thing is, when the movie first came out, the dog's name probably passed unnoticed, or if it was noticed, no one thought it racist. Maybe we can deconstruct the movie around "Nigger" the dog, and see the film as the last gasp of British Imperial Power ironically spending itself on the crushing of a rascist state. Some aspiring Ph.D. student could make a name for herself with that one

just pointing out the fact that all the folks crying and whinging about the words to a song being censored are in all probability the same ones who would never use and raise holy hell if the dogs name was being used in any context .

um ....let me think ..what would Bono and Bob Geldorf say .....