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Someone has to take a stand against these rabid mobs. I hope it is MSNBC, but am pretty sure it won't be.
They set the ground rules and now they will be forced to abide by them. While it is a big problem for Alison Morris; it is a bigger problem for MSNBC. They are caught between a rock and a hard place and I do not see how they will ever avoid the inevitable. It would fly in the face of what they have been preaching for the last few years.
I don't doubt for a second that she deliberately uttered a racial slur, and she should be given the benefit of the doubt. However.....mainstream media plays a big part in "cancel culture," so my charitable feeling here is measured. Not surprised either, that that which they helped propagate has come around to bite one of their own on the *ss.
I worded that wrongly, I meant to say that she didn't deliberately uttered a racial slur.
I don't know. To me, it did sound like she said "Nakers," although, why would she be thinking about the Knicks at all, since they are irrelevant? In any case, why would she randomly drop the N word on air? She's apparently been on TV for a while, and she just decides that now is her chance after all these years to say the N word on air??? That is equally preposterous. I'm willing to give her the benefit of doubt since she has no apparent history of being racist. Given that MSNBC is headquarter in NY, maybe she is a Knicks fan and just had a momentarily slip up that led to the word that came out (which does sound like Nakers to me). No sense in getting hung up over it, especially when it is directly said in songs all the time with no fuss.
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Originally Posted by Jon998877
Well she is from New York.....
Yes, I realized this could be an explanation as I was typing.
She clearly said the N word with a G so we can laugh at her being a closet racist and write MSNBC off as being okay with racism if they do nothing. Or we can be outraged and demand satisfaction which is what the left so often does. Or just accept that racism isn't a big deal and the next time somebody says something they get a pass.
Or we can accept that it wasn't clear at all and that the majority of people think it is nonsense.
As Britt Yazel, a neuroscience doctoral student at University of California, Davis said on why this may happen "....the brains themselves can be wired very differently to interpret speech," he says. For example, if you hear the sounds in either "yanny" or "laurel" more in your everyday life, you might be more likely to hear them here.
Maybe that is why a certain cohort of people hear the n word when it wasn't uttered.
I tend to think it come from lack of self respect - I can't see Vietnamese calling themselves g****, or Jews calling themselves k****.
Heard various arguments about "taking back ownership" of the word, but to me it really just has "yes massa" vibe about it, that speaks of group trauma. It's wormed it's way into popular culture, so I guess it's here to stay.
I know there are racists of all political persuasions, but this conforms with my observation of liberal elites often being hostile toward black people. They talk a good game, but rarely live the walk in my experience. In this case, she got caught talking the racist talk. Damn. This is sick.
I'm usually willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but for that word to even be on the tip of your tongue for such a slip is pretty damning.
Don't expect the same kind of outrage as you'd see if such a "slip" was heard on Fox News
White liberals practice the worst form of racism. They believe it's their duty to take care of people unlike them, particularly 'people of color' because they feel they cannot make it on their own, without help from all-knowing, better people like themselves.
White liberals practice the worst form of racism. They believe it's their duty to take care of people unlike them, particularly 'people of color' because they feel they cannot make it on their own, without help from all-knowing, better people like themselves.
A racist with a "good heart" is more likely to be liberal. A racist with a "bad heart" is more likely to be a republican. Both think that blacks are inferior, while one wants to hug and protect and the other is angry and resents that blacks want to blame their condition on something other than their inferiority and that society should not be forced to try to make equal what is inherently unequal.
Given that scenario, I can use the "hugger" to my advantage more so than I can the "hater", because the hugger needs me as much as I need the hugger. I have no leverage with the hater.
That having been said. I don't know what she meant or what she actually said. It sounded like the N word...but her explanation is totally plausible to me, especially learning that she is based in NY.
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