I am off at a goat farm seeking enlightenment and pastoral healing...I can't take what passes for news anymore. Not today. Its Spring and I live in the Greatest Nation on the planet.
Originally aired some months ago, the dialog is the same, only the characters are different.
Imus should have lost his job, but kept his dignity by refusing to "apologize" to race baiting thugs.
And where is race baiting thug #1, Jesse Jackson, when it comes time to apologize to the DUKE LaCrosse Team for dissing them and offering a REAL LIVE NAPPY HEADED HO a scholarship for her "bravery" against WHITEY.............................Jesse???............Al????........Jesse????
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Martha Stewart wants to copyright the name of her New York hamlet, "Katonah", for use in the marketing some of her froufrou furniture. Folks in her new hometown insist that one can't just go about owning words that are so widely used by a community. Logical enough.
So I guess owning the word "faggot" is out too, huh?
Aggrieved groups long ago usurped the privilege of using hateful words to describe fellow members of their own tight clans to the strident exclusion of outsiders. Their self appointed leaders have conditioned them to believe they have ownership of little else. Not even pride in themselves. So why not? Words are free. Right?
Headline, 2008: Actor in "treatment" for use of an anti-gay slur. Treatment?
Like therapy?
For speech?
In America?
What if the offending actor had been black and gay? Lots of linguistic real estate there, yes sir. The Hollywood twist? The actor is black, but he's straight and black. So he can control whitey with his speech codes, but no quarter is given him by the haughty gay lobby. Better the gay man in question have been black, then said actor could have covered it with a casual, "Niggah, please." Then there would have been no foul, according to the unwritten rulebook. Pity the fool who is too straight to say "faggot" or too white to say "nigger".
What's next? Ownership of colors? Inner city gangs bred from that same ignorant hostile stock already oblige, thank you very much.
When offensive epithets are customarily and strictly forbidden from within communities, they will be forgotten by society at large. Until then, we have a well written rule covering questions of who can say what.
Its called the First Amendment.
Thank you for saying that!
Posted by: Michelle | January 25, 2007 at 07:32 AM
Someone needs to come up with an official rule book for who can say what and when. That way there can be no question of whether someone has crossed the line. Of course, if we did have a book like that, it would be written by the ACLU and would simply say that anyone can say anything unless they're white, in which case they aren't allowed to insult any other minority group but must not protest being insulted by all other minority groups.
On second thought, let's not have a rule book.
Posted by: Stealthkix | January 25, 2007 at 07:36 AM
OH,Oh,oh! I want a rule book that is retroactive. Then I'm going after those meanies that called me a warmonger honkey. Them and the guy that called my friend wussie for crying when his face got sqooshed in first grade dodgeball. Wait a minute, dodgeball/first grade/school/sqooshed face?
I'm smelling millions here!!! Class action, yeah, but still. millions.
Then I can afford lotsa faggots with which to start my KKK *cough*Byrd*cough* fire.
[JANE SAYS: And every MAN that ever called me a BITCH has some 'splainin' to do. AND very creative PROPER use of an old word. Ranks up there with "niggardly". NICELY DONE.]
Posted by: mRed | January 25, 2007 at 08:01 AM
i think you just committed a "hate crime"!
Unless you're a minority, in which case your personal thoughts and motives can't be called into question.
[JANE SAYS: I am a woman.+1. I am white.-2. DAMN.]
Posted by: rhino-itall | January 25, 2007 at 08:05 AM
Jane you my "crackah"
Posted by: Donkeyhue | January 25, 2007 at 09:25 AM
NASCAR Sponsorship that will never happen:
Black driver/KFC
Spanish driver/Spic N Span
White driver/Nabisco
Posted by: Sniper One | January 25, 2007 at 10:51 AM
I want own the color blue ...
To match my eyes.
Posted by: jack | January 25, 2007 at 03:42 PM
"Niggah, please," BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Damn this site gets better and better every day. Of course it helps that I just polished off a very large bottle of lambrusco* with my girlfriend and now every thing is funny.
V5
*For the wine snobs: Before you call me names it's not that I really like lambrusco but she does. ;-)
[JANE SAYS: Its ALL about what SHE wants. And when you're done with what SHE wants to do----its STILL her turn.]
Posted by: V5 | January 25, 2007 at 07:23 PM
JANE SAYS: "Its ALL about what SHE wants. And when you're done with what SHE wants to do----its STILL her turn."
Well last night was her treat so I drank what she had. I don't drink a lot anyway because of the meds (they stop the spasms associated with quadriparisis), but last night I didn't take any so that I could drink. Besides, alcohol pretty much does the same thing the meds do. It's just that I can legally drive on the meds. ;-)
She's pretty cool though. We've been together long enough that she can load/unload my wheelchair blind and drunk if she had to. hahaha
As for getting what she wants... I always let her win. She's to big of a sweetheart not to.
V5
Posted by: V5 | January 26, 2007 at 07:15 AM
I'm a bit sorry that Imus was fired because I didn't think what he said was that bad, and he apologized. Also, I have listened to his show and enoyed it. Having said that, his employers were well within their rights to let him go. Imus has a right to free speech but he does not have a right to a radio program.
Personally I would like to see Ann Coulter fired, and I do not think that would infringe on her rights in any way.She has said far worse things.But I am not her employer. The Grand Poohah (or whatever they're called) of the Ku Klux Klan has the same free speech rights as Coulter, Imus or myself but he does not have a right to a column in the New York Times, or a syndicated radio program.
[JANE SAYS: You are spot on about Imos. Freedom ends at the door of the guy who pays he rent. However. Coulter is what we in America call a "free agent" and she is paid "by the trick", and cannot be "fired" from much of anything, really. You run with that analogy ALL you like.]
Posted by: gary | April 15, 2007 at 08:26 AM
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Posted by: Wade | April 15, 2007 at 05:01 PM