I hate when people do these boycott threats. Whether its liberals or conversatives. The guy made an honest mistake and I'm sure is very sorry for it. Why can't people just leave it alone.
I think it is sometimes very easy to say something offensive. IF the comment is a one time deal, it really only shows that someone opened his mouth without engaging his brain.
I am a student teacher. The teacher I am working under is black, as are about half of the students. One day, the teacher gave me a number of different things to do (most days I do practically nothing). A "specials" teacher had come into the class to make corn husk dolls with the children and kept after me to get involved. I kept telling him that I would make a doll after I had finished these other things.
I ALMOST had commented to him that the teacher was "a real slavedriver!" I am relieved that I didn't actually say it and would have been horrified had it come out of my mouth! I can't even remember the last time I even used that term! But it's there, in the back of my head, and I did almost say it.