In my June 2 post "What shall we do with the drinking salesman late in the morning?" I quoted a couple of paragraphs from Rimbaud's A Season in Hell and then said I would refrain from quoting the next one so as to avoid causing unnecessary offense:
I’ll stop there, since the next paragraph uses the nigger word six times in four lines, and I wouldn’t want to invite the wrath of Google. I may not have much more moral sense than Rimbaud, but I at least understand that you never ever say or write the nigger word, not even when quoting a dead French poet who used the nigger word, not even if he was using it metaphorically and without reference to actual niggers. Even one nigger word would be reckless; six nigger words in one paragraph would be inviting a calamity on the scale of the Night of a Thousand Shits from South Park.
For those of my readers who ain't got no culture, that's a reference to the classic South Park episode "It Hits the Fan," in which a TV show announces in advance that someone is going to say shit in an upcoming episode. This generates so much publicity that other programs try to get in on it, and it soon spirals out of control, with new shows appearing like Must Shit TV and Night of a Thousand Shits, which basically consist of nothing but the word shit. Only too late does the world discover that it is very literally a "curse word," which brings a terrible plague and unleashes a dragon.
Yesterday, just 10 days after I'd imagined a similar scenario playing out with the nigger word instead of shit, I happened to see this Mark Dice video on YouTube, about some lady I'd never heard of getting canceled for saying (hold onto your pearls) "broke-ass nigga" on TikTok -- I mean, not even with a "hard r," and with no racial meaning. Big whoop. But I guess I take Dice's word for it that it's big news among people who like that sort of thing.
Dice's proposed solution to this kind of lunacy is -- well, basically Night of a Thousand Shits:
In reality, the Daily Wire host should start dropping that word on a daily basis. They should call it, like "N-Word Week" and just start saying it all the time. . . . Jeremy Boreing is in a position to have like an "N-Word Day" at the Daily Wire, where he tells all the hosts, "We're going to break the stigma. Everybody just start saying it."
I thought it was a bit of a coincidence, coming so soon after my post.
