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In Defense of Paula Deen: Who decides which words, said in private decades ago, are firing offense?
National Review ^ | 06/25/2013 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 06/25/2013 8:24:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

I love it when the leftist mobs start eating their own. Hey Paula, put some extra butter on it!


21 posted on 06/25/2013 8:47:53 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: JamesP81
I regret my career choice for this reason.

You can write drivers for special purpose hardware using those skills. You don't have to do data-base mining that has questionable applications.

22 posted on 06/25/2013 8:49:55 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Boonie

23 posted on 06/25/2013 8:50:05 AM PDT by PLD
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To: SeekAndFind

The government is collecting many words of Americans. Which one will hang you?


24 posted on 06/25/2013 8:51:31 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
You can write drivers for special purpose hardware using those skills

Except I've spent the past 7 years writing software. I have no experience writing drivers, and in this business experience is everything. I'm probably pigeonholed as a dev from this point forward.
25 posted on 06/25/2013 8:53:43 AM PDT by JamesP81
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To: kenmcg
FWIW WARNING for excessive use of swear words.
26 posted on 06/25/2013 8:55:54 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: JamesP81

Not arguing... just pointing out that you aren’t exactly at ground zero for a lateral move, although you would be in some completely different field.


27 posted on 06/25/2013 8:56:42 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

The employer.


28 posted on 06/25/2013 8:59:56 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: SeekAndFind

The employer decides, as it should be.


29 posted on 06/25/2013 9:00:33 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Not arguing... just pointing out that you aren’t exactly at ground zero for a lateral move, although you would be in some completely different field.

A fair point. I don't know, I'm actually thinking really hard about going back to school and studying neuroscience. It's just that the likely scary large student loans associated with that make me want to go hide under a rock somewhere :D
30 posted on 06/25/2013 9:01:36 AM PDT by JamesP81
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To: Pearls Before Swine

If every word I spoke about odumbo were recalled, you would never see me again. I would be locked in a dungeon someplace where no one would ever hear of me again. Freedom of speech? We don’t need no stinken freedom of speech now that we have odumbo.


31 posted on 06/25/2013 9:01:39 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for SMALLER , HONEST government)
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To: SeekAndFind

In order to remove someone from congress, you would have to rely on a process which is called impeachment or a “motion of no confidence”.


32 posted on 06/25/2013 9:01:53 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: camle

I remember my grandmother had to be retrained to go from “that word” to Negro and sometimes she slipped. She played cards with black women, never treated anyone any different that I ever saw (this was Georgia). She just used the word as a differentiation to white people.

She never understood how it was bad. Maybe that was bad in itself, but she didn’t mean the word as hateful in her own heart.

I know that sounds ridiculous given all the movies and TV shows showing southern people and their ‘hatred’ of black people, but it is her truth.


33 posted on 06/25/2013 9:03:21 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Who decides which words white people may not say, but black people may say any time they please?

If words are too horrific for whites to say, how can can it be OK for blacks to say those same words with impunity?

Do some words have different meanings depending on the race of the person saying those words?

In a language, the purpose of a word is to convey a thought from one person to another. Can a word convey a different thought depending on the race of the person saying the word?

Yes, according to current politically correct thinking, the meaning of some words depends entirely on the race of the person saying those words.

Are there any other words out there that white people are forbidden to say under any circumstances, and if so, what is the statute of limitations on this crime?

Inquiring minds want to know.

34 posted on 06/25/2013 9:09:00 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: bigbob

there are only 2 kinds of racists,the ones that lie about and the ones that admit it.


35 posted on 06/25/2013 9:09:34 AM PDT by old gringo
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To: schm0e
She's being maumaued.

There is a certain segment of the population that goes around desperately seeking the slightest hint of anything that can possibly be distorted to be of a racial nature. Most of these people are blacks. They have been raised so long in the false narrative that whites oppress black, and yet find no supporting evidence of this false narrative, that they'r desperate to produce something that justifies their belief even if they have to manufacture slurs where none exist. And this doesn't even get into the fact that no one was harmed by these words. offended maybe, but to win a judgment the usual standard is that you have to show that you've been harmed. Now if the shakedown artist whose trying to screw over Deen were fired because she was black and ONLY because she was black, then that would be a different matter.

Oh and for the record Paula Deen and her porky offspring annoy the daylights out of me. I can't stand to watch them, but I still think this is ridiculous and a criminal libel of her reputation.

36 posted on 06/25/2013 9:11:03 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Venturer

Any white person over the age of fifty has “used the N-word” in the past.

The lawyer who posed that question to Ms. Deen’s is a totally unprincipled POS (sorry about being redundant)

The people at the Food Network are below contempt for their knee-jerk sacrifice of Deen’s at the holier-than-thou altar of political correctness.


37 posted on 06/25/2013 9:12:55 AM PDT by Walrus (America died on November 6, 2012 --- RIP)
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To: SeekAndFind
Who decides which words, said in private decades ago, are firing offense?

You mean other than the media?

38 posted on 06/25/2013 9:13:14 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: PLD

It’s how the MSM works.


39 posted on 06/25/2013 9:23:04 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind
Asking her if she had used the word without reference to context and requiring only a yes or no answer and not allowing for an explanation sounds like a "have you stopped beating your wife?" type of question. After all, she could have been quoting a title of a classic story by a critically acclaimed author.
40 posted on 06/25/2013 9:24:40 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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