For the record, I am not a fan of the word, but it's worth satisfying everyone's curiousity.
Posted on 04/12/2025 3:34:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Los Angeles news station claimed to have experienced a "technical error" after posting a racial slur to its official X account on Friday.
KTLA quickly deleted the tweet, but not before viewers were able to screenshot the alarming one-word post. The station issued the following statement immediately afterward:
"KTLA experienced a technical error while adding language filters to our social media accounts, resulting in an offensive word being accidentally shared. We are appalled and apologize that this occurred."
X allows users to mute certain words, removing posts containing specified words from notifications and the user's timeline. It seems the staff member managing the account accidentally posted a word it intended to mute.
Many commenters were not satisfied by the explanation, accusing the station of lying. "What intern came up with this excuse?" a user asked, with another responding "Sure, now tell us the truth."
DeplorableMe @TiredofPCCrap · Follow Replying to @KTLA KTLA saying their quiet beliefs out loud.
"Language filters?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Don't you just hate it when the filters accidentally post slurs on Twitter?" another sarcastic post read. "How does a technical error make you post the N WORD?" an account asked before adding, "I think you meant to use race for clicks."
Sarah 🌴🌵 @SarahfromOC · Follow Replying to @KTLA If Fox news or Republicans did this you'd be calling for charges and federal jail time.
"Never watching KKKTLA again," one post declared.
While most comments expressed outrage, a few sympathized with the social media manager "having the worst day of their life."
"As a amateur programmer, yes THIS CAN HAPPEN while fiddling around with profanity filters!" a user defended.
One commenter even offered conciliatory encouragement: "All good. Stuff happens."
Accidentally typed? Good!
But hearing it hundreds of times in rap & hip hop doesn’t ruffle a single feather.
Freedom of speech only exists here?
To me that would mean "Walz" or maybe "Maddow."
But it could have merely been a reference to activist Dick Gregory's autobiography, or the 1897 novel about the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad, or the 1974 comedy LP by Richard Pryor admitting he was crazy and the one in 1976 about the bicentennial.
So ... I’m picturing President Trump reading a speech off a teleprompter and accidentally saying the n-word because a “language filter” was being set up and “accidentally” typed the word into the teleprompter.
First — President Trump would be smart enough to avoid saying the word that appeared on his teleprompter.
Second — If he did say it, no media outlet in the country would ever allow him to forget it or ever allow him to be forgiven. Heck, I bet he would be impeached by the House and removed by the GOP-controlled Senate.
My comment was regarding the hypocrisy:
“Never watching KKKTLA again,” one post declared.
Ktla is as far left a network as you can get here in LA they call themselves the progressive network and yrs ago covered up when their news anchor died .. they paid tribute for him for a week like he was some kind of hero but it turned out he left work early met some dude on tinder and had meth shoved up his behind resulting in his death
I trust he’s smarter than Charles Barkley, but he still might get tripped up by something like that.
What was the word? Did they use “Hispanic” instead of “Latino” or something? Maybe whoever typed it simply had an outdate edition of the “racist” words dictionary.
They may not even be an employee. These media firms outsource a lot their work and the "social media support team" might be one of them.
That tells a lot.
Don’t care. There was a Firesign Theater LP where they sang a song with a long list of ethnic slurs. No one gave a damn.
For the record, I am not a fan of the word, but it's worth satisfying everyone's curiousity.
They posted “whites?”
Or “honkies” or “crackers?” The possibilities are endless.
Which would not be the case for certain other countries.
A niggardly excuse if I ever saw one...
Actually I'm pretty sure this still photo is from a live AM broadcast when a earthquake hit LA.
How do you accidentally type Nigger?
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