but if you care about the kids (which i dont think people really do. they just want to be outraged)
About this:
do
you care about the kids?
Or do you just want to be outraged?
Because otherwise it should be
pretty fucking obvious to you why it's worrisome when a guy with an audience of millions, many of whom are pretty impressionable and young,
constantly promotes an atmosphere of racial intolerance. That the larger context of his use of that word
makes it very clear why his use of it is dangerous and hurtful. It shouldn't really be a question, and probably isn't really a question, but is instead a wedge by which you can
try to pry people's sense of self-righteousness loose from their person, whether or not they are correct (and they are) to be feeling that way in response to this man inviting condemnation upon his stupid pointy fuckin' head.
The real problem for you, as per the way you've laid it out, isn't that people are possibly worried about the effect such casual racism is broadcast directly into the heads of impressionable kids, it's that you don't like the notion of people responding to it in a way that shows they give a fuck, and that other people are making a point of agreeing with that response.
You're coming off as very lazily cynical and it reads as if the sight of people giving a shit seems inherently artificial to you, so it's
more important to you that the (non-existent) artifice you're (incorrectly) spotting is called out rather than actually addressing the more important aspects of the conversation.
"Sure it's bad that he's making millions while being an unapologetic (or faux-apologetic as he gets keep getting caught and caught again) racist in front of kids, but you know what's worse? GIVING A SHIT IN PUBLIC."
That's the premise you seem to be operating on.