Piers Morgan
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Sorry, you're getting me so wound up.
No, no, but I actually made the point in the column that I don't think that works.
I don't think you reclaim it.
What you actually do is you empower genuine racists to say, well, if they're using that word, I'm going to use it.
And so I felt it was an entirely self-defeating reclamation of that offensive word.
I would say the same to gay people.
If you constantly use the F word in your own... What's the F word?
You know what?
We've just been saying it.
If you want to keep saying it, you keep saying it.
I'm not going to keep saying it.
It's worse than fuck, isn't it?
To a gay person, from a straight person, yes.
I understand the reclamation argument that they put up.
Reclamation?
That they're reclaiming the word and they're disempowering it.
That's fine.
I don't care.
I think that's kind of amusing, actually.
I just don't think it works.