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This day and age if you mess up and it has anything to do with a minority, you know you are toast.
Not necessarily. Plenty of people have rebounded from saying foolish stuff. Just as long as you are not getting fired for sexual harassment. That is being toast forever.
It sounds to me like she was trying to say Los Angeles Lakers team and said Nakers. Not that I would be surprised for an msnbc fake news spewer to be a racist. I have to be fair though.
Does anyone recall that there have been several examples of public officials who have used the word "n****rdly"? It means "miserly" and only SOUNDS similar to the racial slur.
In some cases people have lost their jobs over this. I recall watching TV interviews where protesters stated that the "offender" should be fired for using a term that just "sounds" like the "N" word.
Google: "Which public officials used the word n****rdly" and you will see many examples.
Meanwhile a black school board member in New York recently stated that elderly Jewish victims of random beatings and murder by black men "deserved it" because Jews have been buying property in black neighborhoods.
Was she removed in shame from her position? Were there protests? Of course not!
She gets a pass because she is black. Is there a double-standard here?
Everyone needs to take a deep breath and step back from this mob mentality. I have no doubt that the network will have the segment carefully analyzed and will act accordingly.
Or they will fire her if the outrage is strong enough.
BTW: just noticed that CD censors this word even though it is not a slur.
Now it is not a matter of what she said or did not say. It is how MSNBC is going to rectify the problem that she created. If they do nothing it will look like they condone the worst thing that she possibly could have said because she is on a liberal station. But, wait, liberals like to believe that they are the only true representatives for our minorities. She has placed the station in the situation where if they stand by and do nothing they will look like hypocrites and that is the last thing they would want. Even if they get speech specialist to analyze the one word she said and they all agree it is not what shocked the audience; I think it will still be too late. Tongue tied or not; I would place my money on she is going down.
Exactly, Harry. People do this. They start to say one thing, realize the mistake and finish the word properly and it comes out mangled.
But don't let that stop the witch hunt.
Haha, remember the "blah people" thing said by a GOP candidate?
I will be the first to accept his explanation that he started saying something, realized it was a mistake, and by the time it came out it sounds like something else. We have all done this.
I wish people would give folks a little more leeway with these types of things in general unless truly blatant.
We've all seen people make verbal gaffes. Even great orators like Obama, Clinton and Reagan have said goofy stuff on accident.
I'd especially like to see people not give out a pass or run for a pitchfork solely based upon party affiliation or if the media source leans left or right.
It was a simple gaf that just totally came out the wrong way. Just plain old terrible bad luck on her part. Let it go already. It's not the smoking gun everyone was hoping for.
No need to hang her from a cross.
If it were legit I'd be handing out the nails and a hammer. Let it go.
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