Originally Posted by
ccfc_is_my_life
I doubt anybody was influenced to be racist because a TV character was racist. Given he always came out on the losing side being outsmarted by a "savage", it's imo silly. If he was presented as a likeable chap, giving the impression that his views were acceptable then I'd agree... but that's the complete opposite.
If the view is that those words should be banned in all circumstances, then it raises a large number of issues.
1) Documentaries of far right groups, exposing their racism would be banned.
2) Other offensive language would also have to be banned; documentaries showing the extent of and build up to Holocaust would also be banned.
3) Fictional TV gets affected - police drama showing racist being arrested, tried, jailed - banned due to the language.
I'm not defending the language, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying it's far more nuanced than offensive / non-offensive and removing context is fairly draconian