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Unfortunate PR goof in Philly


Mr. Scot

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Come on. The double standard here is outrageous. I can't tell you how many times I've been at parties or clubs and heard this come out of every ethnicity from Indian to a Chinese person's mouth. It's pop culture, not anything else. The fact people are so sensitive to this in my opinion is more ridiculous then what happened in the first place.

 

 

You acknowledge that it people are sensitive to it, but deny that it's a bad PR move to keep him around?

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Does anyone actually care about black history month?  Why confine the learning of historical achievements of anyone to one month?

 

I should be able to learn about George Washington in February and George Washington Carver in June.

 

And before anyone asks, there is another month dedicated to a race.  Hispanic heritage month.  But its not even a month, its the latter half of September until halfway through October.  I don't understand the world.

 

 

segregation...it's the American way.

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Go to work and walk down the hall. Scream it. You know In the "I'm cool" way.

C what happens.

And how accepted (or fired) you will be.

U got a job right?

 

So in a corporate office setting it's on par with all the other slurs. What about on TV, what about among your friends, or out in public. In Music, in Comedy, on the internet. I've had bosses and co workers use it in an office setting and I'm not proud of them but they were not fired. 

 

But this topic will go nowhere fast so it's probably best to end it. Is the word offensive? Yes. Do I approve of it's use? No. Is it the ugliest? I don't see how anyone could rank racial slurs, wrong is wrong, right is right. But the N word is a slur I hear more often than any other and it's rarely met with backlash.

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So in a corporate office setting it's on par with all the other slurs. What about on TV, what about among your friends, or out in public. In Music, in Comedy, on the internet. I've had bosses and co workers use it in an office setting and I'm not proud of them but they were not fired.

But this topic will go nowhere fast so it's probably best to end it. Is the word offensive? Yes. Do I approve of it's use? No. Is it the ugliest? I don't see how anyone could rank racial slurs, wrong is wrong, right is right. But the N word is a slur I hear more often than any other and it's rarely met with backlash.

We've seen the old logic of "well these black people over here use it, what's the big deal?" countless times here already. Each time it gets worse.

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You acknowledge that it people are sensitive to it, but deny that it's a bad PR move to keep him around?

 

People are hypersensitive to it. It's meaning and use has evolved to the point where the older generation and younger generation see its meaning as two different things. I don't think it is a bad PR move to keep him around when you have a couple of the most influential people in the franchise taking a stance to support him.

 

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