Editing Nigger (section)

===In the workplace===
In 2018, the head of the media company [[Netflix]], [[Reed Hastings]], fired his chief communications officer, Jonathan Friedland, for using the word twice during internal discussions about sensitive words.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mele |first1=Christopher |title=Netflix Fires Chief Communications Officer Over Use of Racial Slur |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/business/media/jonathan-friedland-netflix-racial-slur.html |access-date=June 23, 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 23, 2018 |language=en |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623020342/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/business/media/jonathan-friedland-netflix-racial-slur.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In explaining why, Hastings wrote:

{{blockquote|[The word's use] in popular media like music and film have created some confusion as to whether or not there is ever a time when the use of the N-word is acceptable. For non-Black people, the word should not be spoken as there is almost no context in which it is appropriate or constructive (even when singing a song or reading a script). There is not a way to neutralize the emotion and history behind the word in any context. The use of the phrase 'N-word' was created as a euphemism, and the norm, with the intention of providing an acceptable replacement and moving people away from using the specific word. When a person violates this norm, it creates resentment, intense frustration, and great offense for many.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Landy |first1=Heather |title=Read the Netflix CEO's excellent memo about firing an executive who used the N-word |url=https://work.qz.com/1313072/read-netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-memo-about-the-firing-of-pr-chief-jonathan-friedland-for-using-the-n-word/ |access-date=June 23, 2018 |work=Quartz at Work |date=June 23, 2018 |archive-date=June 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623162827/https://work.qz.com/1313072/read-netflix-ceo-reed-hastings-memo-about-the-firing-of-pr-chief-jonathan-friedland-for-using-the-n-word/ |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

The following year, screenwriter [[Walter Mosley]] turned down a job after his human resources department took issue with him using the word to describe racism that he experienced as a black man.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/opinion/sunday/walter-mosley.html |title=Why I quit the writer's room |first=Walter |last=Mosley |author-link=Walter Mosley |work=The New York Times |date=September 6, 2019 |access-date=September 19, 2019 |archive-date=September 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921164048/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/opinion/sunday/walter-mosley.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

While defending Laurie Sheck, a professor who was cleared of ethical violations for quoting ''[[I Am Not Your Negro]]'' by [[James Baldwin]], [[John McWhorter]] wrote that efforts to condemn racist language by white Americans had undergone [[mission creep]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/whites-refer-to-the-n-word/596872/|title=The idea that white's can't refer to the N-word|first=John|last=McWhorter|author-link=John McWhorter|magazine=The Atlantic|date=August 21, 2019|access-date=November 19, 2019|archive-date=November 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191111140215/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/whites-refer-to-the-n-word/596872/|url-status=live}}</ref> Similar controversies outside the United States have occurred at the [[University of Western Ontario]] in Canada and the Madrid campus of [[Syracuse University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6091885/western-university-andrew-wenaus-n-word/|title=Western University professor apologizes after student calls out his use of the n-word|first=Jacquelyn|last=Lebel|work=Global News|date=October 28, 2019|access-date=November 19, 2019|archive-date=November 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105120520/https://globalnews.ca/news/6091885/western-university-andrew-wenaus-n-word/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://dailyorange.com/2019/03/students-professor-use-n-word-classes-sus-madrid-program/|title=Students, professor use 'N-word' during class at SU's Madrid program|first=Catherine|last=Leffert|work=The Daily Orange|date=March 13, 2019|access-date=November 19, 2019|archive-date=November 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123085850/http://dailyorange.com/2019/03/students-professor-use-n-word-classes-sus-madrid-program|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2020, Canadian news host [[Wendy Mesley]] was suspended and replaced with a guest host after she attended a meeting on racial justice and, in the process of quoting a journalist, used "a word that no-one like me should ever use".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cbc-host-wendy-mesley-apologizes-for-using-a-certain-word-in-2/|title=CBC host Wendy Mesley apologizes for using a certain word in discussion on race|first=Darren|last=Calabrese|work=The Canadian Press|date=June 9, 2020|access-date=June 13, 2020|archive-date=June 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610161410/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-cbc-host-wendy-mesley-apologizes-for-using-a-certain-word-in-2/|url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2020, [[BBC News]], with the agreement of victim and family, mentioned the slur when reporting on a physical and verbal assault on the black NHS worker and musician K-Dogg. Within the week the BBC received over 18,600 complaints, the black radio host David Whitely resigned in protest, and the BBC apologized.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53715814/|title=BBC apologises over racial slur used in news report|work=BBC News|date=August 9, 2020|access-date=August 26, 2020|archive-date=August 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831135252/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53715814|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2021, in [[Tampa, Florida]], a 27-year-old black employee at a [[Dunkin' Donuts]] punched a 77-year-old white customer after the customer had repeatedly called the employee a nigger.<ref>{{cite web |author=Dan Sullivan |url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2022/03/07/tampa-dunkin-case-a-racial-slur-a-fatal-punch-and-2-years-of-house-arrest/ |title=Tampa Dunkin' case: A racial slur, a fatal punch and 2 years of house arrest |work=Tampa Bay Times |date= |accessdate=September 25, 2022 |archive-date=September 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923063729/https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2022/03/07/tampa-dunkin-case-a-racial-slur-a-fatal-punch-and-2-years-of-house-arrest/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The customer fell to the floor and hit his head. Three days later, he died, having suffered a [[skull fracture]] and [[brain contusion]]s. The employee was arrested, and charged with [[manslaughter]]. In a [[plea bargain]], the employee pled guilty to felony [[battery (crime)|battery]], and was sentenced to two years of [[house arrest]]. In 2022, in explaining why the employee did not receive any jail time, Grayson Kamm, a spokesman for Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren, said "Two of the primary factors were the aggressive approach the victim took toward the defendant and everyone working with the defendant, and that the victim repeatedly used possibly the most aggressive and offensive term in the English language."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corey-pujols-dunkin-worker-sentenced-fatal-punch-vonelle-cook-slur/|title=Florida Dunkin' employee is sentenced for fatally punching customer who used racist slur|work=CBS News|date=March 9, 2022|access-date=August 14, 2022|archive-date=August 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814130244/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corey-pujols-dunkin-worker-sentenced-fatal-punch-vonelle-cook-slur/|url-status=live}}</ref>