How did Kubrick get away with the "nigger cook" line?

Because people back then weren't overly offended children.Seriously how is it possible to be offended by made dialogue spoken by a fake character in a fictional movie.

The guy that said it was the bad guy.

I'm so happy social media and sites like this never existed back in he 70's and 80's to potentially ruin classic movies with all the dissecting of said movies like this..

Baldwin could say that exact line today in an interview and he would receive zero backlash from the left.

old movies were not ruined by political correction like the modern propaganda shit they produce these days...

We didn't have social media in 1980(Thank God) to dissect and destroy movies in the reviews like we see today in 2024, plus, we were a pretty easy going audience back in that Era and didn't trip off shit like this, like we see in modern day

Because it was in the book? There's also more racist lines in the book, the ghosts in the hotel are racist.

It was the seventies. People weren't so politically correct then. Also, the characters that said it were bad guys. Bad guys are expected to do such things. It is called keeping in character.