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Sisters Suing Southwest Over 'Racist Rhyme'
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Posted on 02/10/2003 1:17:53 PM PST by Sir Gawain
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:35:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: Sir Gawain
Wonder what would have happened if the flight attendant said"Sit your fat asses in a seat so we can back away from the terminal!"
This lawsuit is absolute BS. I would counter-sue for frivalous litigation.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:48:02 PM PST
by
hattend
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"I'm Jewish. The next time someone tells me to "go fly a kite," I'll be sure to mis-hear it as "go fry a kike," and sue the pants off them for reminding me of the horrors of the Holocaust."ROFLOL!
GO FOR it! (Whoops! Did I offend any environmentalists by using what sounds like a little buck-toothed animal?)
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:48:23 PM PST
by
arasina
To: Sir Gawain
Forget this... Everyone named Moe should be offended and sue.
To: DoughtyOne
Yeah, you know that really
DOES get my goat, and it has for ages now.
I have yet to have it explained to me how, if the word is so damned offensive - which I will take at face value that it is - then how come the 'brothas' and 'sistas' can use it so freely? They use it on BET all the time. They punctuate their sentences with the bloody word. It is in a constant stream of casual use. And yet, as I post here I know that I dast not write that term down in the context of this post - even though it is completely germain to an intellegent discussion of the issue - for fear of being labelled nothing short of David Duke.
If it is a term that is seen to be so virulently offensive then how can it be for one group so blasé, while for others it is rabid racisim? Surely it offensive in all contexts. After all, if a German calls another German a Nazi, is it any less offensive that if, for example, a Turk calls a German a Nazi? I think both usages are equally rephrehensible**. I'm sorry, I just don't get the difference.
Surely there are lots of intellegent, conservative American's of African heritage reading and/or posting here that can explain this to me from their perspective? I really don't mean to be impertinent whatsoever, I just do not understand this and I'd love to.
(**Unless, of course he really is a Nazi! Then it is the person, and not the word, that is the offensive article.)
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:48:52 PM PST
by
In The Defense of Liberty
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: SouthernFreebird
BUMP!, Appears this Joker should have lurked a few more eons before signing up.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:49:19 PM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(eenie,meenie, Curley, Larry and Moe.)
To: GovernmentShrinker
I think it also depends on where you grew up. I was in rural Maryland farm country. Not exactly on the cutting edge of advancing race relations, if you get my drift.
Not to worry, though. They completed paving the last square inch of the county about five years ago!
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:49:59 PM PST
by
gridlock
(All we are saying, Is give war a chance....)
To: Sir Gawain
Plaintiffs' attorney Scott Wissel said the sisters also want Southwest to stop using the rhyme and provide employee training to prevent such incidents.After they get the money, though.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:51:34 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(Get the UN out of the US and get the US out of the UN!!)
To: jra
You see folks, this is the kind of blatant racism were talking about. It's everywhere in America. This racism needs to be stopped. I for one will support a law that makes this rhyme illegal.
To: Sir Gawain
wow
how very sad for us all
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:54:17 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberty is no Vice!)
To: Blue Screen of Death
Good point-Moe Bandy might be able to kick his career back into high gear with this. GO MOE!
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:58:40 PM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(eenie,meenie, Curley, Larry and Moe.)
To: Sir Gawain
It's time for a Constitutional amendment:
"Hypersensitivity to foolish racial issues shall be punishable by having the offender's image broadcast on the major networks with the terms, "Fool", "Jackass", and "Get a Life" used as alternating captions below the picture. This shall be done 8 times a day, for five consecutive days, at least twice during prime viewing hours."
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:59:26 PM PST
by
HeadOn
(The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.)
To: Frapster
Tiger....that's the way I always heard it.
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posted on
02/10/2003 2:59:28 PM PST
by
wtc911
To: Sir Gawain
I'm sick of these demented law suits. There have a great many latent consequences which will greatly damage this society unless they are stopped.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:01:06 PM PST
by
Dante3
To: Sir Gawain
Can't these people spell?
"Tiger" does not start with an "N."
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:01:22 PM PST
by
Skooz
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To: GovernmentShrinker
Maybe you should check out the details of what's actually being done around the country in the name of Black History Month. Sure, you can find isolated instances where of some observance isn't riddled with reverse racism, or anti-white revisionist history, or promotion of socialism/communism painting blacks as "oppressed" people who should blame the "racism" of whites for all their problems -- but it's pretty darn rare.I can see a black person making the EXACT same argument against conservative ideals on quotas or race-based preferences.
To: gridlock
I did part of my early pre-school years in Rwanda, in a private school that was predominantly white, but which also had black students who were the children of Rwandan government big-wigs and of diplomats from other African countries. I first learned the rhyme there, from other English-speaking children. Needless to say, we didn't learn the N version there. But I also never heard it in Arlington, VA, St. Petersburg, FL, or Merida, Mexico, which were the other places that I lived in my early childhood.
To: jra
Thank God the flight attendant didn't say "niggardly" in a sentence.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:01:57 PM PST
by
ladylib
To: Blood of Tyrants
His real name is Scott Weasel. He changed it to Wissel after graduating from law school.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:03:37 PM PST
by
ladylib
To: DeathfromBelow
My grandfather use to call them something else.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:04:26 PM PST
by
ladylib
To: SouthernFreebird
I can't begin to tell you how assinine that is.Call it what you will (Or were you calling me something?) but it's reality.
And even worse...I doubt we'd hire anyone who is disabled or of an obvious racial minority for the same basic reason. Actually, I don't even "doubt it".
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