This was a great and well thought out post. Of course everyone is allowed to write how they want, but, the word "nigger", is it's use in this episode shallow, flat, and needlessly heavy handed in it's use? Yes. And no. On the one hand, Merle is someone I believe I could find in the real world. People like that, they use that word to make themselves feel better. It's a bully mentality. On the other hand, maybe it's the way it was delivered, but, felt kind of forced, liked they hoped the reaction the audience would be like "ooooh....they said...."
And by the way, in the comic, it was at the prison during an attack by a horde of zombies, Rick killed one of the inmates. Afterwards, Otis came to one of the women who were on the farm and scolded her for helping "the niggers."
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