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NextImg:Sarah Silverman Says Past Slurs And Blackface Were 'F**king Ignorant'
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Sarah Silverman says she was ridiculously “ignorant” but never ill-intentioned when she used racial slurs and blackface in her old comedy.

Looking back on the openly offensive tone of her 2007 to 2010 series, “The Sarah Silverman Program,” she told Rolling Stone, “I felt like the temperature of the world around me at the time was,“‘We are all liberal so we can say the n-word.’”

″‘We aren’t racist, so we can say this derogatory stuff,’” the comedian remembered thinking.

Explaining how her abrasive comic persona factored in, Silverman said, “I was playing a character that was arrogant and ignorant, so I thought it was OK.”

“Looking back, my intentions were always good, but they were fucking ignorant,” she added.

The stand-up apologized for her poor judgement in a 2018 episode of her Hulu show, “I Love You, America.”

While Silverman said some people felt she shouldn’t have had to disavow her past comedy, the star told Rolling Stone, “I don’t think of myself as being PC out of fear.”

“Some people got mad at me for apologizing. I only did that because I was sorry,” she explained. “That’s a really great rule of thumb: Only apologize when you’re sorry. Always apologize when you’re sorry.”