With no explanation, label text_A→text_B with either "DON'T KNOW", "NO" or "YES".
text_A: The show further lampooned the controversy surrounding its use of profanity, as well as the media attention surrounding the network show "Chicago Hopes singular use of the word "shit", with the season five premiere "It Hits the Fan", in which the word "shit" is said 162 times without being bleeped for censorship purposes, while also appearing uncensored in written form. In the days following the show's original airing, 5,000 disapproving e-mails were sent to Comedy Central. Despite its 43 uncensored uses of the racial slur "nigger" (which the producers were required to censor on television and even on DVD releases), the season 11 episode "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" generated relatively little controversy, as most in the black community and the NAACP praised the episode for its context and its comedic way of conveying other races' perceptions of how black people feel when hearing the word.
text_B: Given the evolving tolerance for profanity on basic cable in the 2000s and beyond, does this passage make it sound like the networks still took a harder line on racial slurs than they did on other taboos, such as literal four-letter words?
YES.