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Nick Frost drops a slur in Shaun of the Dead
And that slur? Is the n word! I’m sorry, I do try not to be too much of a pearl-clutching loser about these things because I have a functioning brain and I understand that this movie came out in 2004 and we basically lived on a different planet, but I did in fact say “Wait, really?” out loud and rewound the movie to make sure I was hearing it correctly. It simply comes out of nowhere! If nothing else, that moment, in which a white British guy randomly says the n word and it goes unacknowledged by his friends (to their credit, they’re in the middle of a mass zombie attack, but they’re also constantly riffing about…
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