re: What did LSU tweet that some players are complaining about?

Clemson's Dabo Swinney defends response to assistant coach's use of racial slur

This is a perfect illustration of a non-racist use of the N-word.

This is no "strawman" or hypothetical situation. This actually happened.

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Swinney said former tight end D.J. Greenlee and Pearman were on a separate part of the practice field when an argument happened in 2017. Greenlee told The State newspaper, "Me and the coach got into it, and I was speaking with one of my teammates. He heard me use the N-word, basically, and basically tried to correct me by saying the N-word back."

Swinney said Greenlee approached him privately to discuss what happened. According to Swinney, Pearman was "profusely apologetic."

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"I would fire a coach immediately if he called a player an N-word. No questions asked," Swinney said Monday. "That did not happen. Absolutely did not happen. It has not happened. Coach Pearman was correcting D.J., and another player was talking to D.J., or D.J. was yelling at the player, and D.J. said something he probably shouldn't have said. He said, 'I blocked the wrong F'ing N-word,' and Coach Pearman thought he was saying it to him, and he's mad, and he reacted, and in correcting him, he repeated the phrase.

"And [Pearman] said, 'We don't say we blocked the wrong F'ing N-word.' And he repeated it. He shouldn't have done that. There's no excuse for even saying that. But there is a big difference. He did not call someone an N-word."

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I think it's stupid the guy even apologized. He was correcting a player telling him not to say the word. He probably shouldn't have said it, but in the heat of the moment he did. That doesn't make it racist.