MSNBC racist joke against Mitt Romney's family

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  1. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Melissa Harris-Perry decided it was fine to make racial slurs towards Mitt Romney's family and their black grandson in particular. The show started singing "one of these things is not like the other" at one point.

    She has apologized and he accepted, but where was the fucking backlash from Jesse and Al?

    MSNBC reinstated her today. If she was a white woman who slammed Obama in a racial way, she would be out of a damn job and probably would never work in media again.



    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...hr/news (The Hollywood Reporter - Top Stories)
     
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    VanillaGorilla Well-Known Member

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    I can't make myself care about this.
     
  3. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Cause it was a black person being racist?

    Funny how that works
     
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    VanillaGorilla Well-Known Member

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    No, that's not it at all.
     
  5. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I don't understand. This happened DAYS ago. Why don't we have a dozen outraged threads on this already? I actually had to learn about this from the *media*!?!

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  6. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    It was funny. It would have been funny if it was a black family with an adopted white baby. She, nor MSNBC, should feel the need to apologize.

    Unfortunately, professional hypersensitives have so polluted the inter-racial dialogue in this country, people actually choose to be offended by stuff like this.
     
  7. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    For the record, I thought it was funny as well.

    I just can't seem to get over the complete double standard in this country when it comes to race
     
  8. bluefrog

    bluefrog Go Blazers, GO!

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    I'm missing the "double standard" part.

    She got called out for making a racist joke and apologized for it.
     
  9. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    And the backlash from Jesse and Al? the NAACP going after her like they did Phil Robertson for saying he never saw black people complaining when they were picking cotton? Him suspended indefinitely, her getting her job back. It's complete bullshit.

    I have ZERO problem with what she said, but if you are going to do it to one, you have to do it to all
     
  10. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Perhaps there was little outrage because rich, white politicians are not a historically oppressed, underrepresented minority.

    BTW, in spite of Phil Robertson's anti-gay statements, he was not suspended indefinitely. He was reinstated without missing any filming or having his pay docked in any way.

    BNM
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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  12. Mediocre Man

    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    So it's ok to slam Romney and white people in 2013-14 because we were not oppressed decades ago?

    Underrepresented minority? I guess Barry doesn't represent black people?
     
  13. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Oh please, nobody got "slammed" in that clip. She apologized, he accepted, end of story.

    BNM
     
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    I don't understand what "racial slur" was used. I can't find "one of these things is not like the other" on this list.
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    The word "slur" has been defined down so far that even mentioning race can be construed as a "slur."

    Stupid hypersensitivity industry...
     
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    The_Lillard_King Westside

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    Really? A country that allowed slavery at one point and you can't understand the double standard in this country. Has there ever not been a double standard in this country when it comes to women and people of color?
     
  17. Mediocre Man

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    So again, it's ok for a balck w?oman to make fun of and mock the Romney family in a racial manner because decades ago people had slaves....right
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    White people make dumb racial comments all the time, apologize and it still causes a shit storm. Why does this get to be the end of the story.....because she's black?
     
  19. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Or maybe because what she said really wasn't all that offensive. She didn't use any racial slurs. It's not like she put on a hood and burned a cross on the Romney's front lawn.

    BNM
     
  20. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    So, you weren't offended by her comments...

    but, you're offended that others aren't offended?

    There's your double standard.

    BNM
     

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