Max King of the Wild said:
McDonaldsGuy said:
Red4ADevil said:
As much I oppose racism, it's another thing to persecute/prosecute people over a stupid word. The way we've been attacking racist terminology (for the most part) has been ineffective.
Was it really justifiable to ruin Paula Deens career over a stupid racist remark she said 30yrs ago? (correct me if I'm wrong)
Why do people feel they need to single out Justin Bieber because he used the word "nigga" when a lot of other artists use it?
Same thing with the Redskins. If you wanna go a little bit further how come no one is crying about Disney's "what makes the red man red?" scene in Peter Pan.
The way you attack this is by educating not prosecuting. Plus honestly I don't see why it disparages the natives when we call people of African descent "black" or others like Indian, Mexican, etc "brown people." |
The thing is is that racism leads to atrocities. What's so bad about what Paula Deen said? Well the word she said has been associated with slavery, abuse, kidnapping, segregation, murder, family separation, genocide, etc. etc.
"Red*****" (I won't say it anymore) is associated with genocide, invasion, disease, segregation, humilation, tears, murder, etc. etc.
Honestly these are more than just words. They lead to much more. Remember Hitler would refer to Jews as "parasites" and "rats."
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You are ridiculous and over sensitive. Jews is associated with Hollocaust so lets not say that anymore. Gay is associated with AIDs epidemic so lets not say that anymore. Rwanda is associated with Genocide so lets not say that anymore along with Serbs.
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You may be right, but what they did to Paula Dean was nothing more than them making an example out her to enforce their fear onto everyone else who might do the same. Thats not right. Mind you I'm not defending her actions but what im defending is that there are others like her who are singled out and unfairly treated over something verbal whether it waw in/unintentional.
In my personal opinion words are just words. If you remember the old saying "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me" You (to the provoker) can beat my ass to a pulp but you're petty verbal insults are nothing to me.
Max King, You're deinitely right about the gay part. It was originaly about being happy, or in older times "merry" now it has been accepted by the gay community. Unless you're using it in terms of lameness like "thats so gay."
