Yeah, I completely agree. And it was funny, when I was writing this piece I went back and forth over whether to censor fa**ot or not. I decided that if I was gong to censor one I should censor the other, but I'd rather we got to a point where we didn't censor either. I've actually written about this exact topic.

But this is fundamentally the point. I decided that I should censor both. I think I'd have come in for some justified accusations of hypocrisy if I'd decided to censor the n-word but not another slur that might offend other people. And interetsingly enough, even as a black man, I think I'd get less criticism for decensoring fa**ot than i would for deconsoring ni**er.

This is my (and I think Dave's) point. If the network has a problem with the word fa**ot, fine. But then why doesn't it have a problem with the word ni**er? Would it have been okay if he'd hired a gay actor to say it? The double standard reveals something interesting about how we think about these words. If you have a little time, this absolutely fantastic talk expresses the point much better than I have room to here.