Why can only they use the word?

Free Republic is backsliding. Back in the days of Bush, they knew about the basics of racial context, even if they did enjoy the occasional racial slur.

Now, though? Paula Deen uses it, and they're rehashing the "why can only they use the N-word" crap from the 1980s.

TexasCajun is typical of the attitude:

Blacks don't even respect themselves enough to quit using The N-Word!

...or cry me a Double-Standard river!

MeganC has some kinda uncensored radio where she is...

So what that Paula Deen said the word ‘nigger’? Turn on any rap radio station and you hear it all day long. I don’t get why anyone pays any attention to the PC crowd on this. As long as they keep using it on the radio I really don’t care if anyone else does.

DJ Frisat speculates about Democrats using racial slurs, which absolves all actual racists of any responsibility:

Gee, I wonder if Robert Byrd ever used tha word. Or Billy-Jeff Clinton?

Naw, they’re good Democrats...

FlingWingFlyer knows Democrats all lie under oath, unlike staunch Republican Paula Deen:

A good commie lib DemocRAT would have just said, “I don’t recall ever using that word.” That would have been the end of it.

Vinnie discovers she supported Obama, and suddenly the issue ceased to matter:

Not likely a 'commie' but she is a big Obama a$$ kisser.

Her politics cause me to yawn at her problems. Y'all

SunkenCiv knows this is all a distraction:

*Finally* a *real* issue to cover nonstop. The Partisan Media Shills are relieved.

tuffydoodle is still milking racial resentment out of the LA riots:

Somebody needs to put together a picture of Reginald Denny getting the shit beat out of him during the LA riots with the caption, “not racists” and a picture of Paula Deen beside it with the caption “racist.” I would do it but I don’t know how....