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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous][quote=TheManWithAUsername]Even assuming that Jackson and/or Allen regularly use racial slurs, I'm not sure "bigot" is the right word. A bigot would be someone who says all Jews are cheap or something.

Did Jackson's slur betray some racism toward Jews? I'd sa[b]y probably[/b]. The only alternative is that he was being (clumsily) colorful like some comics are, particularly with archaic and/or sillier slurs.

But Allen? I have no reasonable doubt that he exhibited his racism. I don't know how else to judge it.

Flip it. If you saw a tape of Jackson speaking to a predominately black audience, then referring to a Jewish-looking man as "hymie over there," would you hesitate to condemn him?

Re the word, it may not be familiar to us, but it was to him - that was clarified when the story originally ran.[/quote]

Is Jesse Jackson a comedian? I thought he was a serious person who ran for President of the United States? I would think that he should be held to a higher standard than a "clumsily colorful comedian" to paraphrase your remarks.[/quote]
Should he have been held to a higher standard of care in his speech? Yes. I didn't say or suggest that he wasn't deserving of criticism.

[quote=Anonymous]Do you really believe that Allen exhibited racism but Jackson didn't?[/quote]
WTF is it with people's inability to read clear text? While saying you don't understand me, you've actually bolded the answer to your question in my earlier post. Look up the word "probably." You find that it has almost the opposite meaning of "not."

[quote=Anonymous]I am certainly not a supporter of Allen, but I honestly don't see any difference in what Allen did in comparison to Jackson calling Jews "hymies" and referring to NYC as "hymie-town", which he did say to a black Washington Post reporter ( Milton Coleman) in 1984.[/quote]
OK. I see them as very close as well - as is abundantly clear from my post, in which I say that his statement probably betrayed his racism.

[quote=Anonymous]Jackson denied the remarks at first, then went on the offensive, accusing Jews of conspiring against him.[/quote]
I didn't know that, and now I've read about it; thanks for the information. Crazy and racist, to be sure. Of course, that was after the statement, so it's completely separate from the question of whether his statement in itself exhibited racism.
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