Samuel L. Jackson Compares Joe Rogan and Tarantino’s N-Word Use: It Must Be ‘Element of the Story’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Samuel L. Jackson is dismissing Joe Rogan’s apology for using the N-word several times on episodes of Rogan’s podcast.

Grammy Award-winning musician India Arie first called out Rogan’s N-word use by posting a video compilation to Instagram last month of Rogan using the racial slur over two dozen times.

Rogan apologized for his use of the N-word, but he also called the backlash against him a “political hit job.”“There’s been a lot of shit from the old episodes of the podcast that I wish I hadn’t said, or had said differently,” Rogan said, adding that his use of the N-word was “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve had to talk about publicly” and that many of the clips Arie shared were “taken out of context of 12 years of conversations on my podcast.” “I know to most people, there’s no context in which a white person is ever allowed to say that word and I agree with that now,” Rogan added. “I haven’t said it in years.”Jackson spoke to The Times and had this to say about Rogan’s N-word use and apology: “He is saying nobody understood the context when he said it, but he shouldn’t have said it.

It’s not the context, dude — it’s that he was comfortable doing it. Say you’re sorry because you want to keep your money, but you were having fun and you say you did it because it was entertaining.”For Jackson, using the N-word in media is only appropriate when it is “an element of what the story is about.