Earlier today I was watching an episode of The Sopranos on A&E. Which meant that of course any profanity had to be bleeped out. There was a scene wherein Christopher is talking about his girlfriend, and he tells Bobby and Tony that she's black. To whit Bobby laughs:
"You're banging a shine?!"
Within seconds, words like "shit" and "fuck" were bleeped out. But "banging a shine" was not. I was floored. How could an epithet like "shine" be okay? Would they have left it if he had said "n---er'? Of course not!
What a crock of shit. "Shit" or "goddam" need to be bleeped out for precious ears, but it's okay to pass "shine" around. Incredible.
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