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It's being repeated, frequently, that the Dire Straits song is "social commentary", that it's sung in the voice of an unsympathetic narrator, that the ban constitutes "censorship", that "faggot is now an unacceptable word, but that's not the point" , and — most puzzlingly — that the song is being "banned" because "one person complained".
The assumption, of course, is that this "one person" must be an isolated crackpot, and not representative of the listening public. It's an easy assumption to make. As is the much-reported notion that the song is being "banned" in the first place. Money for Nothing's use of the homophobic slur has been controversial since it was released in In one interview , Mark Knopfler mentioned receiving "an objection from the editor of a gay newspaper in London". The critic Robert Christgau took particular exception to the "word Knopfler has somehow gotten on the radio with no static from the PMRC ", writing, "I mean, why not 'little n— with the spitcurl' instead of 'little faggot with the earring', Mark?
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So, it's not as if "faggot" has just now become offensive; Dire Straits has been aware of the problem for 25 years. In fact, the only strange thing about this scenario is the choice of radio stations to play an unedited version of the song, when there have been several radio edits made precisely to prevent this sort of issue arising.
One edit replaces the slur with the word "mother". And while you could once see the unedited video on M-T-Veeee, some stations have aired a version that cuts the offending verse entirely. The verse is also cut from Dire Straits' "best of" compilation, entitled — wait for it — Money for Nothing.
All the CSBC requires is that radio stations play the edited versions. After all, if Knopfler's portrait of a working stiff is so very insightful, it shouldn't rely on a single profanity in order to work. This is hardly controversial. What is controversial is the idea that "faggot" being a bad word is new. Granted, the slur is less acceptable now than it was in ; 25 years of activism have accomplished something, even if it's only a widespread recognition of the fact that "faggot" is a word specifically intended to hurt and dehumanise gay people, not an all-purpose insult that sounds adorable coming from Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles.