Could Paula Deen's words bring down her empire?

Socrtease said:
Racism is repugnant. This woman admitted to planning a plantation/slave themed party. Anyone that thought she was going to keep her job was smoking way more hydro than Top gets his hands on. That being said, someone says or types "the N-word", what do you think? Do you literally think, the n-word? When I hear it or read it I think "nigger". So do everyone of you. That word is now so heavily charged that you can't discuss the fact that SOMEONE ELSE said it with racist intent. I have typed it time in this post. It has not the slightest racist intent, yet there are those of you that are near stroke because I dare type the word out in its entirety. We have to start looking at the intent with which the word was spoken or written. Not JUST that it was spoken or written.
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I can't help feeling that there are more than a few who wish to keep it that way as they can then use it as a big stick to beat others into submission and silence.
 
poet said:
We don't have to do anything but pay taxes and die. You're correct on your assertion that the word couldn't be more radioactive now.. The word is so "charged" and repugnant, being said by any non-white ( for obvious reasons), that even "writing the word out", sets people off. I know it does me...and I don't need to be told to "chill" or adjust my thinking, or to "get a grip". Nobody can dictate what someone finds offensive or reprehensible. It is what it is, and one has to recalibrate and weigh if their freedom of speech need be pushed to that limit, to make a point or not. Then it becomes all about ego.
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It's also not as if the word ever needs to be said for any reason. I mean, if the word for some common appliance such as "sink," were to also happen to be a racial slur, I could understand people frequently dropping it within the proper context. But, that word literally has no other purpose than to express racism and piss people off.
 
poet said:
... The word is so "charged" and repugnant, being said by any non-white ( for obvious reasons), that even "writing the word out", sets people off. I know it does me...
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Only if a white guy writes it though. How can you tell?
 
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Aoxomoxoa said:
I can't help feeling that there are more than a few who wish to keep it that way as they can then use it as a big stick to beat others into submission and silence.
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Threedee said:
It's also not as if the word ever needs to be said for any reason. I mean, if the word for some common appliance such as "sink," were to also happen to be a racial slur, I could understand people frequently dropping it within the proper context. But, that word literally has no other purpose than to express racism and piss people off.
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So when I typed it above my purpose was racist? To piss people off?
 
poet said:
I think it is insensitive to write the word out, knowing that there are black forum members, who undoubtedly, are offended by the mere sight of the word.
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So if I say, "the N-word" you don't think about what the N-word is? It doesn't go off in your head? It does most people I know.
 
If there is one thing we've mastered as a country, it's manufactured outrage.

We're not so good at staying out of debt, or war, or at things like compassion. But when it comes to mustering up a frenzy over stuff that has no effect on us whatsoever, we're the best.
 
Thing1 said:
If there is one thing we've mastered as a country, it's manufactured outrage.

We're not so good at staying out of debt, or war, or at things like compassion. But when it comes to mustering up a frenzy over stuff that has no effect on us whatsoever, we're the best.
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When did you start making so much sense, did you have an epiphany? The world is going to hell in a handbasket but all people are concerned about is a word, which only a generation or so ago was on TV and in the cinema. Yet apparently now is so evil and poisonous that it cannot even be said lest the wrath of Beelzebub be brought down on all and sundry.
 
Thing1 said:
If there is one thing we've mastered as a country, it's manufactured outrage.

We're not so good at staying out of debt, or war, or at things like compassion. But when it comes to mustering up a frenzy over stuff that has no effect on us whatsoever, we're the best.
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Ain't it the truth. If I ever throw racial epithets at poet or BAC I expects to get smacked down and banned for it. But if we, as adults, are discussing the Paula Dean issue and we are not using the words as insults, then offense is misplaced. When I took class in college and one of the things we discussed was Malcolm X, I discussed the concept of the house nigger without saying "the house N-word". That would have been fucking stupid, but I think that too many on the left would expect me to do just that.
 
Socrtease said:
Ain't it the truth. If I ever throw racial epithets at poet or BAC I expects to get smacked down and banned for it. But if we, as adults, are discussing the Paula Dean issue and we are not using the words as insults, then offense is misplaced. When I took class in college and one of the things we discussed was Malcolm X, I discussed the concept of the house nigger without saying "the house N-word". That would have been fucking stupid, but I think that too many on the left would expect me to do just that.
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I use "the n-word" because I really hate how the other word sounds, but sometimes, I feel incredibly stupid saying or writing "the n-word." I get both sides of it, but man, does it just seem silly. We give that one word a whole lotta power by giving it the eggshell treatment.
 
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