Reply #11: Q: Whats worse than a celebrity who makes off color comments about minorities? [View All]

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A: The inevitable media frenzy that follows.:spank:

These are *my* first & final words on the 'K-K-Kramer' issue...
If it's alright for a black comic to use the "N Word", how about a half-Black comic? And what if the other half is Jewish? Where does one drawn the line?!?
It doesn't matter what color the person is who says *that word*, or how they pronounce it (e.g.--hip-hop baby-talk version: "nigga'"), it's always relative to the context.
I didn't watch the video, and have no plains to. I don't know what Richards' explanation is.
All I care about is that we don't become so goddamned PC about everything that " African- American " becomes the only accepted way to denote someone is of the darker persuasion.
To me, the '`Prefix`-American'isms are nearly as offensive as the dreaded word that rhymes with 'digger':o.

Never mind Michael Richards faux pax for a minute...
wasn't the stated point, for why black people are 'allowed" to use *that word*, that 'It Takes Away the Hurtfulness' of it, to use it in a non-hurtful context?
If that's it... what difference does it make, what the color of the person saying it,:grr: is?
I think it's bad that ANYONE should be discriminated against, in the would-be free art of expression.
Everyone, however, should make the personal decision, to discriminate between what words they choose to hurl off their tongue.

For the sake of argument, and in that I am a front-guard warrior in the daily battles against Political Correctness, let me try an experiment:
"Condoleeza is a cretin, but not just any-body's nigger, she's the chief Nigger of State."
Now this may be UNNECCISARY, to say, but if it's okay for Chris Rock to say, why not Bill Maher? Or, for example, ANYONE :think:?
It might be an incontrovertible Stand-Up Rule. Should it be the Rule for all?