I understand the point she says she was trying to make.  NO group should be using the &quot;n&quot; word, not even in the name of comedy, which is used by all races to give racism a free pass. The question is, then, WHY DID SHE HERSELF USE THE WORD, OVER AND OVER?  She is supposedly a psychologist (wink wink) and self-crowned moral arbitrator. She supposedly has the training to know that saying the word will offend many and just be plain WRONG to utter, morally and emotionally. So either she is too incompetent to be a moral compass or &quot;philosophically making a point&quot; is, like jokes, a way to try and give racism and intolerance a free pass.  Too bad she could not do it more directly and honestly, as she has done with homosexuality.