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I don't quite get your point. How does the way you earn your pay have an impact on what offensive remarks you're allowed to make?
So I guess he did deserve to be fired.
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Racism is a big deal, yeah. However, the more attention paid to it over the slightest comment or remark, the more it's going to be popular to say a racist thing in the limelight. This attracts attention, and more and more people will be doing this for popularity.
I do think that there are more important issues than just racism. How about "hate" as a whole? Why focus on just racism? There's bigotry towards tons of different groups of people, you should be defending them instead of focusing all your firepower on one remark from a stupid old white man.
I think it would take to much heat for leveling the playing field. However I recently was implored by an economics teacher of mine (more of a civics class if you ask me) to start a Caucasian Celebration Club -- why not go through with this? Its simple really, I value my white skinned body too much to allow it to be beaten by the members of my society which cannot grasp the beauty of it all.
Now for another week about how they are meeting him behind close doors and Al Sharpton jumping in front of as many cameras as possible.
Steam ID: SirToons 3DS: 3024-5277-3254 Twitch: SirToons
.. Your logic astounds me. Someone loses their job over a racist remark and you think people will be leaping out and doing the same?
I hope everyone else who read the last thread on this is having a massive lol here.
I think it should be a prerequisite to be able to put simple puzzles together before using the internet. I mean honestly if you cant find it just hit alt+f4 a bunch of times unplug your computer and go outside.
It's been explained in this thread, and it's not like straight-haired Sharpton is the only black person upset. So ... are you going to continue saying that you know better than black people as to what is racist, or are you going to admit that the very large number of people upset about this comment might have a point?
I already said he should of been fired because the word apparently does have racist undertones.
Black people black people white people, black people.
Steam ID: SirToons 3DS: 3024-5277-3254 Twitch: SirToons
For anyone curious: Scott goes to my high school as well.
Anyways, what I meant was people will be going out and getting their 15 seconds of fame for making an offhand remark about anyone.
I still don't see why homophobia doesn't get as much of the spotlight as racism does, and it's just as prevalent, and just as much of a problem. I guess people really only care about race....which is just such bullshit.
Why are you convinced this sacking has changed the racial landscape of America? Someone could just as easily get their 'fame' by calling a basketball player a jumped up n*****.
-- this is better then wheres waldo, oh wait can I say that? Maybe I should say "Where's Aiesha"...
(i like those puzzles with the like slidey things and then u make the picture after u slide them around there so fun kekeke ^_^)
See where I'm going here? Wait, maybe you won't. People should be able to say what they want about other people in the media and not get attacked on all sides for it.
That is all.
You're saying people shouldn't be able to complain? You do realise that that would be stifling free speech?
With the right laws, the music industry could be regulated to the point where any musician that created material deemed racist by enough people could be blacklisted and barred from ever having CD's produced by labels.
The problem here is that "material deemed racist" eventually turns into "material deemed offensive", and it only gets more subjective from that point on.
I respect your convictions against racism, but the problem here is that your beef with public racism in the media is hopelessly intertwined with larger issues (media censorship, free speech, etc.) There is no "freedom as long as you're not being a racist or a douche", it just can't work that way, and this is why I can't agree with your methods, even though I understand your arguments behind them.
You do realize that firing him from his job over one offhand remark(after 20 years of them allowing it) is also stifling free speech? It is. It's saying "you can say this this and this but not this, even if you're allowed to do so through the Constitution."
It goes both ways, man.
Fuck the basketball, baseball, hockey, football, soccer, and jai alai players. When Imus insults somebody IMPORTANT, let me know.
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Hey celery, I guess it does come up every page. Look: you have a right to free speech. You do not have a right to be free from consequences that come from what you say. Furthermore, the Constitutional 'free speech' is only concerned with government oppression - I'm perfectly free to call you a dick if you've said something that offends me.
That's why this is a freedom of speech issue, to some extent. If his listeners just stopped listening because of what he said, that would be different. This was a power play by politicians that had nothing to do with him or his show or his audience.
hold on a minute! we cant have meaningful arguments.... sigh when are people gonna learn only rappers, hip-hop artists, pop culture, and sports mean anything. duhhhh
It's like -- hey, new page, gotta say it again -- NO ONE IS ADVOCATING A LAW AGAINST WHAT HE SAID. Man ... jeez ... this is just getting dumber by the page.
That's fucking retarded.
CBS came out initially in his defense. The firing only occurred after the sponsors caved to political pressure.
Read.
If we really wish to get dumb with it[/] here is some help on the free speech thing:
Congress shall make no law respectin' an establishment uh religion, o' prohibitin' de free 'esercise dereof; o' abridgin' de freedom uh speech, o' uh de press; o' de right uh de sucka's peaceably t'assemble, and t'petishun de Guv'ment fo' some redress uh grievances.
--- just thought the Jive translation would be of use.
Try this. Can't guarantee who you may or may not think is "important," but there are some non-athletes in there.
This is going to end well.
Moron City.
He has a right to say whatever he wants, and I have a right to call him a dipshit and vote with my dollar by pressuring his sponsors.
No one has the right to fire him from his job over this.
Why should we value network and listener more than sponsors' support? After all, they're paying for his show.
Also the other people are nicer to your friend scott -- he's not just a moron, all signs point to him being a racist as well.
Perhaps ya' should 'espand yo' mind and use some oda' fo'm uh insults besides dojigger callin'