Paul Deen Use of the the "N" word

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Anonymous wrote:So..outraged white folks: What are you going to do in response to this Paula Deen scandal? Are you still going to criticize "black names" in your baby name threads? Still talk about "stores for poors"? [b]Let your kids go to schools with a 75%+ population of black students? [/b]

What say you DCUM crowd? How will you stand up and change the racist views of America? Because, IMO, calling someone a nigger and demeaning them in other prejudice/stereotypical ways are the same.

I live in PG county and I think our school is closer to 90% black.

I don't care about the race of kids at my kids' school. I care about the performance of that school. Unfortunately, low performing schools are often heavily minority populated. Don't confuse the course of concern.

My kids school is perhaps 90 percent black? Excellent school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So..outraged white folks: What are you going to do in response to this Paula Deen scandal? Are you still going to criticize "black names" in your baby name threads? Still talk about "stores for poors"? [b]Let your kids go to schools with a 75%+ population of black students? [/b]

What say you DCUM crowd? How will you stand up and change the racist views of America? Because, IMO, calling someone a nigger and demeaning them in other prejudice/stereotypical ways are the same.

I live in PG county and I think our school is closer to 90% black.

I don't care about the race of kids at my kids' school. I care about the performance of that school. Unfortunately, low performing schools are often heavily minority populated. Don't confuse the course of concern.

What I would like to know is how to avoid the school you went to...
Evidently they failed to teach you that if a population is "heavily minority" -- that means BY DEFINITION they are the MAJORITY...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Either the words are derogatory, or they're not. I don't think anyone should be using them."

Linguistics and cultural reappropriation would disagree. I would say read up on it, but it is just easier to be simple minded and black and white, I guess.

Oh, and as for the straw man of hearing a student say one of these words... well, duh. Context matters, venue matters.

You're trying too hard to justify use of the "N" word; however, if you don't have a problem using it, that's your choice.

Another straw man. You're on a roll there with your 5th grade education.

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^ and yes, I am aware that was a hominem.

[Anonymous]

Not to get way off topic, but you know the lawsuit is about employee relations, not using the n-word. Right?

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More than use of N word. Complaint alleges harassment in work place. Brother Bubba watched porn in restaurant, among other things. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/19/paula-deen-uses-the-n-word-7-shocking-details-from-her-deposition.html Plus she preferred to pay some black employees with beer instead of money. She misses the Confederacy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/paula-deen-racism_n_3480720.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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The woman who brought the lawsuit put up with this for five years? Why? Why not get another job? Maybe she was building her resume, a 5-year affiliation is better than a much shorter one.

There's something off about this lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The woman who brought the lawsuit put up with this for five years? Why? Why not get another job? Maybe she was building her resume, a 5-year affiliation is better than a much shorter one.

There's something off about this lawsuit.

The newspapers are noting that the woman wrote a complimentary, appreciative letter just months before initiating the lawsuit.

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Does this mean the Food Network won't be carrying Paula Deen's new show "African American Cooking With Paula Deen?"

[youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrvNeuc7jY[/youtube]

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Ok now author Anne Rice has weighed in on this...
boyyy she must have spent a lot of years drinking blood...and it has made her straight up crazy..it's almost worse than what Paula admitted to...she sounds just nutty,
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anne-rice-defends-paula-deen-574346

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I agree with Anne Rice. This is INSANITY. Paula Deen did nothing illegal. She was lassoed into the lawsuit for her deep pockets. Why doesn't the woman who filed the lawsuit do interviews? She's in hiding, the coward. I'm no fan of Paula Deen (though I enjoyed her restaurant when I ate there in 1999, before she became a nationally known figure).

As for enjoying the plantation-like feel, there are certain mountain resorts in our midst (Homestead, Greenbrier) that for years cultivated that same sensibility.

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That's pretty funny! But I suspect her lawyers will go after this!

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Anonymous wrote:From CNN article: "Deen testified that she probably used the racial slur when talking to her husband about "when a black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head."
"I didn't feel real favorable towards him," she said, referring to the robber."

She can use whatever words she wants in a private conversation with her husband. That's no one's business.

She was asked if she called the robber "nigger" and her answer was "hell to the no!" (Ok, that's my paraphrase). She knows the word is racist if it comes out of her mouth.

I'm too lazy to type out the entire predicate, but basically she was asked if she had said she'd need to "massage" (i.e. talk to and make feel better) an employee her brother was said to have physically shaken. She denied it and said she never uses the word "massage" except for in dealing with meat and sometimes she massages her husband. Yet later in the deposition she talks about having to figuratively massage someone.