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[quote=Anonymous]NP and white person here.

While of course I'm sorry that Paula Dean's use of the N word and other racially hostile behavior has caused pain to the people who had to endure it and wished it hadn't happened, I have to admit that I'm a little gleeful that this has all come out.  I hope her she loses her show and her lucrative endorsements.  It will serve her right.

I say that because I heard her interviewed on Diane Rehm's show a few years ago.  There had been some news stories about atrocious working conditions in the plants that produced her Smithfield sausage or whatever it was. A listener called in and asked her about it, and she responded with something like, "Oh, I don't know anything about that. That doesn't have anything to do with me."  Diane pressed her on it and a second listener called in to press for more of a response.  She refused to say anything to acknowledge  the issue, express regret, outrage, horror.  Nothing.  She could not have cared less about the conditions under which workers produced her products.

Honestly, I've never heard anything like it.  It was in stark contrast to a similar incident around the same time involving working conditions revealed at an overseas factory that made products with Kathy Lee Gifford's name on them.  KLG was horrified and sobbed during a press conference talking about it.  KLG is a nitwit, but I think she was totally sincere in her feelings.

How hard would it have been for Paula Dean to say something like, "I was as surprised as anyone by the reports of horrible working conditions for people making products with my name on them.  If true, I am outraged.  I'm committed to finding out exactly what's going on and making sure that anything illegal or unethical is remediated.  I would never condone that kind of thing."  But no.  Deny not just responsibility but any interest in the problem whatsoever.

FTR, I'm not all surprised that Paula Dean is racist and used the N word.  I'd be shocked if she didn't continue to do so to this very day.  [/quote]

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