I guess so. I just wonder what progress is going to sound like 30 years from now. You all will have to excuse me when I hear words that I know for a fact are racial slurs and their only intent and purpose is to be a racial slur are now excused. It takes some getting used to I guess. This thing we call progress.

 

How is the fact that the word has fallen out of the next generation's vocabulary a bad thing? Isn't that what everyone wants? Racial terms to be used so infrequently that they become forgotten and removed from use?

Apparently it is acceptable though.

 

I don't think anyone thinks it's acceptable. Heck I don't think many people think she shouldn't be punished in some fashion. Ignorance isn't a real defense. The point I was making was looking at motivation. It's hard for me to believe she intended to be racist and lose her job. Whether she intended to be racist or not doesn't change the fact that what she said was unacceptable. I just think it should be taking into account when we talk about how severe her punishment should be.

 

Now if information comes out later to show this is common place for her I hold the right to change my opinion on her intent.

I guess so. I just wonder what progress is going to sound like 30 years from now. You all will have to excuse me when I hear words that I know for a fact are racial slurs and their only intent and purpose is to be a racial slur are now excused. It takes some getting used to I guess. This thing we call progress.

 

Are you saying her intent was to be derogatory against blacks?

How is the fact that the word has fallen out of the next generation's vocabulary a bad thing? Isn't that what everyone wants? Racial terms to be used so infrequently that they become forgotten and removed from use?

 

But they aren't removed from use if an anchor on the news is using them. Just because some people don't know what it means when it is said doesn't make it any less inciteful and I'm pretty sure if you were black and had been called that derogatory term before you'd feel differently. It's naive to believe that just because you don't know what it means or have never heard it before that the word will just disappear from vocabulary.

She clearly wasn't trying to hard or offend anyone. What she said was not okay, she will be corrected.

 

I've come to learn that no matter what the story or subject is, someone will always take offense to something. "America is soft." I've seen you post that here, PP. It seems to hold true.

Are you saying her intent was to be derogatory against blacks?

 

Where and how else did she hear that word? What else is it used for other than to be derogatory? Someone introduced that word to her and for whatever reason she chose to use it. We'll never know her intent because she copied and pasted her apology to everybody in order to keep her job. I just want to know why she stared into the camera and said the word all by itself in one sentence.

She clearly wasn't trying to hard or offend anyone. What she said was not okay, she will be corrected.

 

I've come to learn that no matter what the story or subject is, someone will always take offense to something. "America is soft." I've seen you post that here, PP. It seems to hold true.

 

Yeah, we blacks need to toughen up by not being offended by racial slurs used on the news because the person who used the word didn't know it was a racial slur. Got it. :thumb:

But they aren't removed from use if an anchor on the news is using them. Just because some people don't know what it means when it is said doesn't make it any less inciteful and I'm pretty sure if you were black and had been called that derogatory term before you'd feel differently. It's naive to believe that just because you don't know what it means or have never heard it before that the word will just disappear from vocabulary.

 

If it were just me, I'd agree. Pretty much everyone on here around my age has said the same thing though.

Yeah, we blacks need to toughen up by not being offended by racial slurs used on the news because the person who used the word didn't know it was a racial slur. Got it. :thumb:

 

Yes...you're actually exactly right. And like some others have said, if she didn't know the meaning of the word, it's a good thing. It means it's not used in our society anymore. Be thankful. Look at the brightside.

If it were just me, I'd agree. Pretty much everyone on here around my age has said the same thing though.

 

Good point. Hopefully you guys can move that progress on to the rest of the folks in the good ol' USA who aren't members of BGP yet. The same ones who use the n word with an a on the end and think it's all good. :thumb:

Yes...you're actually exactly right. And like some others have said, if she didn't know the meaning of the word, it's a good thing. It means it's not used in our society anymore. Be thankful. Look at the brightside.

 

Easier said that done. Either way, I'll be ready next time a racial slur is used on the news in a naive fashion.

Easier said that done. Either way, I'll be ready next time a racial slur is used on the news in a naive fashion.

 

And if the context is indistinguishable, I guarantee it will get a similar response. Sorry, PP.

Just for the record I am in the 20 something age group and did know what the word means. My wife didn't.

And if the context is indistinguishable, I guarantee it will get a similar response. Sorry, PP.

 

Nothing to apologize about. Just saying my perspective and you're saying yours.

For example, I was unaware that 'spade' could be used as a derogatory term until I used the idiom 'call a spade a spade' in reference to an African-american person. Thankfully the only person there to hear was my father, not a TV audience. He seemed shocked and explained the matter to me. Since then I haven't really used that idiom much.

 

I'm 40 and I have used the term "call a spade a spade" before and had no idea whatsoever that it had any racial connotations.