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Simply amazing how many using this forum are comparing the lousy cook's use of a racial slur with other people who have used it. In their minds and thought processes, if someone else can use it, she can too. Which means it's okay with people to use the slur. 30,000 wrongs doesn't make something right.
And I love how the anti PC police have stepped in it too.
Let's get something straight here, while everyone is protected by the constitutional amendment of freedom of speech, what you say might also be detrimental to you and people around you, and you and people around you will pay for ignorance one way, or another.
I love seeing hypocritical liberals excited that a multi millionaire was fired. won't see these same people complaining or celebrating about the firing of al sharpton. that would never happen to him though.
One thing new to me through all this - had it not been for the southerners on CD, I never would have known that they have their own word for Brazil nuts. Maybe because I'm from the west coast is the reason I've never heard this unique expression.
I can just imagine these fine southerner folks at their local grocery stores..."hey n----r, where do you keep your n-----r's toes in this place?" So charming....
I can just imagine the peaceful west coast. when was the last time the US had a race riot? oh that's right. please post the link where mexians, koreans, and blacks are playing nicely on the west coast. I know you are pandering to the generic stereotype of "southern racism" but look in the mirror.
I love seeing hypocritical liberals excited that a multi millionaire was fired. won't see these same people complaining or celebrating about the firing of al sharpton. that would never happen to him though.
You're just jealous that you're not as wealthy as Reverend Al. Who's going to fire him? Donald Trump?
To many people, being a racist means that you use epithets that are typically associated with racism or that you behave in a way that discriminates against people mere based on their skin color.
So, Paula Deen used the "n-word" and the outrage seems to be centered mostly around her using that word rather than other actions. Deen's use of the "n-word" is deemed offensive by just about anyone.
Are there many rappers who don't use the n-word? It seems to pop up on my Sirius radio just about every other minute.
How come it's alright for rappers to use it? How come they don't get dropped by their recording labels? Is it because they are black and being black makes it alright?
Perhaps it's alright for any particular racial group to use derogatory terms about their own demographic?
Alas, didn't it just a second seem that it was racist to discriminate against people simply based on their skin color?
How can the "n-word" be offensive and lead to such an outcry if a white person uses it - while it is, apparently, perfectly acceptable and considered cool if black people use it?
In this sense, judging whether the term is offensive or not is done merely on the basis of skin color!
Black person saying it = Cool
White person saying it - bad
And here I thought it was wrong to pass judgment solely based on a person's skin color...
Seems rather ironic that people complain about racism by passing judgments based on racism.
To many people, being a racist means that you use epithets that are typically associated with racism or that you behave in a way that discriminates against people mere based on their skin color.
So, Paula Deen used the "n-word" and the outrage seems to be centered mostly around her using that word rather than other actions. Deen's use of the "n-word" is deemed offensive by just about anyone.
Are there many rappers who don't use the n-word? It seems to pop up on my Sirius radio just about every other minute.
How come it's alright for rappers to use it? How come they don't get dropped by their recording labels? Is it because they are black and being black makes it alright?
Perhaps it's alright for any particular racial group to use derogatory terms about their own demographic?
Alas, didn't it just a second seem that it was racist to discriminate against people simply based on their skin color?
How can the "n-word" be offensive and lead to such an outcry if a white person uses it - while it is, apparently, perfectly acceptable and considered cool if black people use it?
In this sense, judging whether the term is offensive or not is done merely on the basis of skin color!
Black person saying it = Cool
White person saying it - bad
And here I thought it was wrong to pass judgment solely based on a person's skin color...
Seems rather ironic that people complain about racism by passing judgments based on racism.
It is the difference between you calling your family idiots and an outsider do it.
It is not racist is one black person calls another black person the n word. It is annoying. But when someone, who grew up at a time when that word represented 2nd class citizenry for the people it describes uses it, it is very different.
The only thing worthy of notice here is the crippling and overwhelming pc society we live in today.
This is a textbook example of why things will not end good.
things will not end well, because we will always have people who think they should be able to say whatever they like to others and face no consequences. Paula Deen can say n****r until her buttered lips fall off, but Food Network doesn't have to keep her on the payroll.
So Paula Deen learned to use the "N-word" from rappers now, huh?
yep. don't you remember when rappers were protesting school integration and spraying people with hoses?
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