wait what was Barney doing in the 1940s

He was chilling with the Minions.

"NOT THE MAMA!"

It was altered in the 70s, around the same time the Thomas book was altered.

While Britain participated in the slave trade, they went out of their way to not do so in Britain; the slaveholders kept their slaves abroad and out of sight, in places where the laws of civilisation which rule such institutions to be obscene are waived. (Sugarcane plantations in the Caribbean were one such place.) And it was impolite to inquire too hard about the sources of fortunes that built stately homes.

The difference being that when the N-word was uttered in Britain, it was belittling and condescending in an exoticising way, like a colonial-era picture book of funny foreigners in their traditional costumes. In America, however, it had a more immediate edge of aggression and violence, implying an other that’s here rather than far away, and firmly below the speaker in the established racial hierarchy, and who must be kept there using tools including designating them as a (N-word).

Those were exceedingly good stories though!

"relatevily uncommon" != "there weren't"

Yes, and Black soldiers took part in D-Day seven years prior.

it just cracks me up because if you look for Hays violating shit, it's everywhere back then. If they wanted to sing about sex, they sang about food.

You hear that, Bobandy? That shrill sound in the distance? That's a shitwhistle heralding the arrival of the shit train. Carrying countless shitcars each filled with tons and tons of shitcargo. Should be here any moment, Bobandy, but first a little drinky poo!

My god this was probably a real problem in 19th/early 20th century England though. Fucking kids can be fucking assholes lol

That's no reason to throw the gamer word at them. Actually, it's more messed up because it was a bunch of lily white English kids chucking rocks. Should've called them crackers as he passed instead.

Lmao that sounds like a python library

Oh god, worse than I could possible have imagined D:

Kind of? Like you could call a child a "little bugger" and that would just be calling them annoying rather than an arse fucker

Once I used it like that at work, everyone was surprised, and so I looked it up after. I'm actually dead now. This is my ghost typing.

Well, there was one episode of South Park about people who annoy you...

Doesn't matter, the word is rooted in homophobic intent.