Posted on 07/11/2013 4:51:01 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
With hate speech, it’s the perceived ideology of the perpetrator that matters most.
When do insensitive words destroy reputations?
It all depends.
Celebrity chef Paula Deen was dropped by her TV network, her publisher, and many of her corporate partners after she testified in a legal deposition that she used the N-word some 30 years ago. The deposition was made in a lawsuit against Deen and her brother over allegations of sexual and racial harassment.
Actor Alec Baldwin recently let loose with a barrage of homophobic crudities. Unlike Deen, Baldwin spewed his epithets in the present. He tweeted them publicly, along with threats of physical violence. So far he has avoided Paula Deen’s ignominious fate.
Does race determine whether a perceived slur is an actual slur?
It depends.
Some blacks use the N-word in ways supposedly different from those of ill-intentioned white racists. Testimony revealed that the late Trayvon Martin had used the N-word in reference to George Zimmerman and had also referred to Zimmerman as a “creepy-ass cracker” who was following him.
Some members of the media have suggested that we should ignore such inflammatory words and instead focus on whether Zimmerman, who has been described as a “white Hispanic,” used coded racist language during his 911 call.
Actor Jamie Foxx offers nonstop racialist speech of the sort that a white counterpart would not dare. At the recent NAACP Image Awards (of all places), Foxx gushed: “Black people are the most talented people in the world.” Earlier, on Saturday Night Live, Foxx had joked of his recent role in a Quentin Tarantino movie: “I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?”
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VDH exposes it like no other.
The stench of the hypocrisy from DNC liberals is truly sickening. VDH exposes it like no other.
VDH is a great teacher. This final paragraph needs to be absorbed by all of us who are still pushing back against leftists. Just as the term "government money" became "taxpayers' money" in general discussion because enough conservatives stopped saying "government money", so we must say "hate thought" instead of "hate speech". It is obvious that only certain people's actual spoken words are "offensive". And those persons just happen not to be leftist/statists.
i am so sick and tired of phrases like “the N-word” and “the B-word.” everyone knows what it means. so use it or don’t use it. for example “no i did not use the B-word to describe HRC. i called her a bitch because she is.”
BTTT!
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