The positive spin is maybe the word is used so infrequently today and among the 20s generation that we should view it as a sign of progress.

 

Great point

She was taken off the air for 3 days. She knows to only use the word around the person who taught it to her now.

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.

Same. I thought it's an analogy to "call something like it is". Meaning don't call a spade a heart, or a club or a diamond because it is a spade.

She was taken off the air for 3 days. She knows to only use the word around the person who taught it to her now.

 

What do you think should've been done?

 

Do you think her entire career should be ruined over it?

What do you think should've been done?

 

Do you think her entire career should be ruined over it?

 

Yes because I don't buy her "I didn't know act". She's heard that word before. Somebody taught it to her and there is no other meaning for the word at all other than for it to be a derogatory mark. You can't confuse the meaning behind the word and for her to use it the way she did tells me that she has heard the word used before from someone who is racist or even possibly from someone who is black. Not to mention that if she truly didn't know that it was a disparaging word why would she even use it? Hell, her first apology was, "I'm sorry if I offended you." Not, "I'm an idiot and I never should have used a word that I had no clue what it meant." Why would any self respecting person in broadcast journalism use words that they have no clue about? Is she trying to be Brian Williams now or something and just going to start making stuff up on the fly? :lol2:

Yes because I don't buy her "I didn't know act". She's heard that word before. Somebody taught it to her and there is no other meaning for the word at all other than for it to be a derogatory mark. You can't confuse the meaning behind the word and for her to use it the way she did tells me that she has heard the word used before from someone who is racist or even possibly from someone who is black. Not to mention that if she truly didn't know that it was a disparaging word why would she even use it? Hell, her first apology was, "I'm sorry if I offended you." Not, "I'm an idiot and I never should have used a word that I had no clue what it meant." Why would any self respecting person in broadcast journalism use words that they have no clue about? Is she trying to be Brian Williams now or something and just going to start making stuff up on the fly? :lol2:

It is literally unbelievable to me that, not just you, but anyone can possibly have this as a rational thought.

Yes because I don't buy her "I didn't know act". She's heard that word before. Somebody taught it to her and there is no other meaning for the word at all other than for it to be a derogatory mark. You can't confuse the meaning behind the word and for her to use it the way she did tells me that she has heard the word used before from someone who is racist or even possibly from someone who is black. Not to mention that if she truly didn't know that it was a disparaging word why would she even use it? Hell, her first apology was, "I'm sorry if I offended you." Not, "I'm an idiot and I never should have used a word that I had no clue what it meant." Why would any self respecting person in broadcast journalism use words that they have no clue about? Is she trying to be Brian Williams now or something and just going to start making stuff up on the fly? :lol2:

 

So anyone that makes a derogatory remark should have their career's forever ruined? That's your position?

It is literally unbelievable to me that, not just you, but anyone can possibly have this as a rational thought.

 

It is what it is. It's unbelievable to me that a person working in broadcast journalism can make a racial slur on the news and be defended.

So anyone that makes a derogatory remark should have their career's forever ruined? That's your position?

 

 

Racial slur? Absolutely that is my position. Anyone who makes a racial slur while broadcasting the news should find a new career immediately because you are either 1.) racist or 2.) using words that you have no clue what they mean so you probably shouldn't be talking in public anyways. ESPN has fired and suspended employees for doing much less.

 

It's not like her career will be ruined so kill all that talk. I wouldn't hire her but I don't own a TV station. She works for FOX. She'll be fine.

Racial slur? Absolutely that is my position. Anyone who makes a racial slur while broadcasting the news should find a new career immediately because you are either 1.) racist or 2.) using words that you have no clue what they mean so you probably shouldn't be talking in public anyways. ESPN has fired and suspended employees for doing much less.

 

It's not like her career will be ruined so kill all that talk. I wouldn't hire her but I don't own a TV station. She works for FOX. She'll be fine.

What does FOX have to do with it?

It is what it is. It's unbelievable to me that a person working in broadcast journalism can make a racial slur on the news and be defended.

"Defended" in the sense most do not feel her career should be over. Whether it was ignorance of true vitriol in her heart, casting away someone for a remark solves nothing. And if that is someone's position that is fine, but if this same someone makes a similar type mistake in life, expect the same type treatment.

What does FOX have to do with it?

Please don't feign naivete here. For what it's worth, my guess would be she heard the word at work ... the lunchroom, for instance.

What does FOX have to do with it?

FOX isn't known for their racial sensitivity.

FOX isn't known for their racial sensitivity.

 

I don't know how true that is...

I don't know how true that is...

Everyone's perceptions are different. Especially when it comes to racial issues.