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I read the link. I still

trkingmomoe — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 07:25:54 +0000

In reply to Hey guys, so there is a good

I read the link. I still feel the same way. I also read on HuffPo that the case could be dismissed based on the recent Supreme Court Ruling. I will change my mind when the court gives the former employee 1.9 mil that she is asking for.

Hey guys, so there is a good

Orion — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 02:24:05 +0000

In reply to Paula Deen, The N-Word And Prejudice

Hey guys, so there is a good article in the New Yorker about all of this. Really recommended - if I had read it first this article would be very different, what I'd read and heard previously didn't really express why people were so mad at Ms. Deen. A really stand out part of the story:

The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the antebellum South. (In planning Bubba’s wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, “I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.”) In other words, we now have “Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition,” with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.

Thanks for that comment. That

Orion — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 00:15:09 +0000

In reply to Lisa Jackson, the white woman

Thanks for that comment. That certainly explains alot. In my experience, racism is subtle like Michael Wolraich said. You can kind of feel it instead of hear and see it. It's really strange - alot of people with racial prejudice seem conflicted - like they really don't want to be racist but the unspoken prejudice they were socialized with is just too damn strong to beat.

Lisa Jackson, the white woman

rmrd0000 — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:20:03 +0000

In reply to Paula Deen, The N-Word And Prejudice

Lisa Jackson, the white woman who filed the Paula Deen lawsuit says her complaint was about Deen's treatment of people Deen felt were inferior. It was not about the word"nigger".

From CNN:

Orion — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:10:21 +0000

In reply to Here's a perspective from

From CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/01/opinion/seymour-deen-racist-language/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

Are you attempting to

Verified Atheist — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:23:59 +0000

In reply to Her own damn fault. Next time

Are you attempting to distract and confuse with a non sequitur? By now I recognize it as your way of admitting that you were wrong. We're all wrong sometimes, even me.

I agree with Orion on this

Orion — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:16:48 +0000

In reply to I am a foodie. I just think

I agree with Orion on this that she has become somewhat of a whipping post and there is all kinds of racism under the radar.

Both you and Michael Wolraich are correct. Like I said in this post, I had an editor at a rap magazine who was really conservative. I also have a very conservative friend who seemed to make racist comments socially, without thinking about the impact - he actually said I "opened his eyes" when I got upset about it. I think that on race, we tend to be really dishonest towards ourselves about our true feelings.

Racism in this country is still hardcore among people who still have it - it is a part of some people's view of the world the way that breathing oxygen or walking is. Modern GOP rhetoric is almost like retooled pre-Civil Rights stuff - you hear guys like Brit Hume saying that Republicans would actually win if they just were a stronger All White Party:

Her own damn fault. Next time

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:59:46 +0000

In reply to See #2. (I hope that was

Her own damn fault. Next time she'll stick to acceptable phrases like "ho's and bitches". She should be more sensitive about hurting someone's feelings.

Anyway, someone out there want to talk about PRISM?

See #2. (I hope that was

Verified Atheist — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:34:02 +0000

In reply to It doesn't matter - if she

See #2. (I hope that was brief enough for you.)

It doesn't matter - if she

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:26:57 +0000

In reply to She didn't use the word while

It doesn't matter - if she had a gun pointed at her head, she was probably in trauma about it, so just leave her alone. I remember my mom being rather shaken by an encounter with an exhibitionist when I was little - took away her normal composure - and that's certainly not as unnerving as a threat of death. Does everything have to be explained in half syllables these days?