I wonder what liberals would say if the imam planning the Ground zero mosque used the n-word? I think their heads would explode!
I listened to her too. disagreed, agreed on comments she put out there. Is that not what free speech is all about. We do not live in the same nation today
We’re close to the end of the road when we can’t even use “the N word” in a conversation about language where “the N word” is the subject of the discussion.
OMG, Do not I repeat do not bing her with safe search off.
Problem: Dr. Laura is the biggest hypocrite at all. She argues other women should be stay-at-home moms — when she was never a stay-at-home mom. She argues that men should be the family breadwinner — when she’s always been her family’s main breadwinner. She excoriates divorce — and she’s divorced and started dating her current husband while he was still a married man. She abhors premarital sex — while having nude photos of herself on the web, taken by an ex-boyfriend. She tells people to honor their parents — while she cut all ties with her mother, who died alone in an apartment and whose body wasn’t discovered for several months after her death.
She’s a prime example of “do as I say, not as I do,” and has made scads of money off of yelling at people to act in ways she doesn’t. Dr. Laura pretty much makes me sick.
Political correctness is philosophical suicide.
I’m not a fan of Dr. Laura.
Saw her self-immolation on Larry King. I was not impressed.
She looked ridiculous.
I haven’t heard more than about 30 minutes of Dr. Laura, and don’t really care for that genre of talk radio. I think her remarks, in context, were reasonable and her point was valid. But she had to know, after any number of clearly illustrative examples (e.g., Imus) that in her business a $hitstorm would result. She’s been taking down millions for years, is 63, and she is choosing a perfectly valid option - taking your marbles and going home. I’m sure she’ll command respectable lecture fees, and will write a book or two - her franchise is still valuable.
What the majority view on this seems to be is that blacks can define the “n-word” as benign when they use it and beyond the pale when non-blacks use it. It’s like the aide to the DC Mayor who was forced to resign 11 years ago for proper use of the term “niggardly”. Never mind that the etymology of “niggardly” clearly shows it was in existence long before the pejorative “n-word” came about. They are two different words which have only a phonetic similarity.
They want to control the language, but they preserve the right to benefit from the inherent ambiguity of language and the artificial distinction they apply to context (i.e., race of the speaker.) This very ignorant approach only separates blacks further from the mainstream of America. But they have every right to do it.
She isn’t perfect and has a lot in her past but to me that doesn’t diminish her usually good advice.
I didn’t agree with her style and aome of her advice but she had the guts to say things non PC things that you don’t hear many other places to a large audience.
Why do most of your headlines end with an exclamation point?