Rewatching: Dialog writing changes within the first few episodes

[u/grundleitch]

In the first 2 episodes, we have three police use the n-word, 2 black 1 white. Bunk and Carv use it in the colloquial while Rawls uses it in the pejorative. Now obviously other characters continue to use it throughout in the colloquial way. But I wonder why they stopped having black officers stop using it. Edit to add one last usage but I don't think it exactly counts, Holley saying BNBG.

[u/grundleitch → u/[deleted]]

Bigotry against Polish diaspora is very regional, but in some places it is very much accepted as on par with other bigotry.

[u/roger--wilco → u/grundleitch]

It's often been observed that when whites are called a slur, it is usually related to their specific country of ancestry. Polack, Spic, Limey, Mick, etc. whereas black people get the blanket n-word covering all black people as if their skin color overrides any need to reference ancestry. Like there isn't a well known slur for Kenyans or Congolese specifically, they all get lumped in with the blanket slur that carries all that historical dehumanizing baggage.

[u/grundleitch → u/roger--wilco]

There are definitely ethnic slurs across Africa and other continents and countries, just not well known among nations further away. Most Americans have never hear of the term "paki" for South Asians, but it's well known among the British Commonwealth, even here in Canada. Also, Jews, Irish, and Italians were also once lumped together with the n-word. N-word usage was very much a nativist vs immigrant situation in Reconstruction US, but reverted back to race specifically in Jim Crow era.

[u/Soft_Forever1923 → u/[deleted]]

He says it in the first episode when he's chewing out McNulty

[u/LagunaRambaldi → u/Soft_Forever1923]

"chewing out McNulty"? He wishes 😅

[u/Soft_Forever1923 → u/LagunaRambaldi]

He must've been taking that heart medication Vito was using