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ludicrious. gm doesn't give a crap about what dr laura SAYS, they care about the effect her words have on her viewership. and her audience will decline, so gm would pull sponsorship. are you saying media matters shouldn't REPORT this? did they report anything that was untrue? why do you insist on making this political, when it's clearly not?
Do you really think that the base audience of Dr Laura is actually going to stop watching because of her hyperbole?
If they had I'd hope they'd be in court over it.Barb, I would still appreciate the examples of people who have had their first amendment right of free speech denied.
If they had I'd hope they'd be in court over it.
This is about the left trying to silence the right. We are in danger of losing our first amendment rights if we keep going down this road. We will be like Venezuala where the only speech allowed is what the government wants you to hear. Do away with Conservative talk and that's exactly what we'll have.
Thanks. I didn't know that.
A lot of people thought what he said was offensive.
Yeah, and the right has been trying for a long time to shut down talk radio that isn't Fox. Take, for example, the nipple slip from the Super Bowl. It was conservatives who tried to use the FCC to censor content on radio and television that conservatives found offensive.
So conservatives are just as guilty of this as liberals are.
Oh, and just to prove that merely uttering (or in this case typing) a word isn't automatically offensive or racist ... NIGGER.
Innaccurate question that is a strawman.
Being behind, IE actually SUPPORTING, the mosque being built is not required to not want the government to infringe upon someones free practices.
A better question would be whether or not the poster agreed with people having the right to bad mouth and protest the mosque and its creator, or if they should be silenced for doing such. As that would correlate to what happened with Laura, as people were bothered by what she did and thus spoke out against it to her detriment.
Oh, and just to prove that merely uttering (or in this case typing) a word isn't automatically offensive or racist ... NIGGER.
No rights were violated. To my knowledge the government hasn't done a single thing one way or the other, so how can she have lost her first ammendment rights? Freedom of speech doesn't mean consequence free speech.
That said, from what I've heard about the context of what she said, this is a serious overreaction. She didn't use the dreaded N-word as a slur or an attack. She used it in the context of having a conversation abou that word. The idea that we shouldn't even say the word when we're talking about that very word is ridiculous. Especially since only certain groups of people can't say the N-word. Other groups can use it constantly without any reprocussions. The reaction here is a classic example of hyper political correctness run amok.
Oh, and just to prove that merely uttering (or in this case typing) a word isn't automatically offensive or racist ... NIGGER.
No. Dr. Laura's 1st Amendment rights as a talk radio personality are not being taken away. If anything, her sponsors have decided that she crossed over the line of on-air ediquette and diplomacy and yanked some of their sponsorship from her show. As such, Dr. Laura feels that she's being unduly limited in her ability to say what she wants. Well, I got news for her. She did this to herself. Nobody made her say the words that came out of her mouth. Nobody closed her ears so that she didn't listen to the issue the black female caller was attempting to address and seak her advise over. Instead, Dr. Laura went off in a completely different direction and got caught up in her own angry rant. Now, granted, since the issue was about racial insensativity, the caller was the one who used the "N-word" as an example of the racial insensativity issue she was addressing since as we all know the caller was black, her husband is white and it was her husband's white friends who were causing the caller the problem. Had Dr. Laura listened and addressed the caller's problem instead of going off in a completely different direction, maybe she wouldn't feel as though her 1st Amendment right to free speech - to say whatever she wants to say on the air - are being tread upon.
Oh, and BTW, as the good Dr. is so fond of saying, "How you 'feel' about a particular situation doen't matter." :shock: She stepped into her own mess. Seems as though she's taking out her own trash.
On the surface of it, I don't disagree with you. However, as I explain in this thread (specifically in posts #53 and #71) context means everything, as well as, familiarity of the person and/or culture who uttered the word. Taken in totality, as a black man I can say that word and get away with it (in most cases), but a white man...not so much. And while not speaking as an authority on the matter, I think I articulate the reasons why very well. To put it mildly (as also mentioned in the linked thread), a man can't call a woman a "bitch" and think he can get away with it for the same reason a woman can call another woman a "bitch" and, depending on how or under what circumstance it is said, she can!
However, a man can have a conversation about the word 'bitch' and not have people boycotting his advertisers because he dared to utter the word aloud in the presence of a woman.
And any woman who happens to hear the word 'bitch' isn't going to go on Larry King and express what an "ordeal" it was and how wonderful it is that everyone is "supporting" her through this "tough time" and how she has "crying fits" because she was forced to hear the word on the airwaves.
She was fired for exercising lack of judgement on the air. Owning that would be to exercise the dogma she preaches.
This is a bit random, but am I the only person who physiologically has difficulty pronouncing the word "nigger"?
I can't say it. It sounds so ridiculous coming out of my mouth that I'd probably never say it, even if I were a racist and didn't think there was anything morally wrong with saying it.
I have the same problem saying the word "*****" (I get around that by pronouncing it, very broadly, as "poozy", which sounds funnier than ***** anyway).
I have a very slight speech impediment, which seems to become exacerbated beyond all reason when I try to say words which I find potentially racist/sexist/otherwise morally questionable.
Seriously, though... I can't imagine saying the word "nigger" even once in front of another person, let alone eleven times in three minutes, before a listening audience of thousands.
It's a stupid word. It sounds silly. Say it, right now. See?
Can I just break in here and say "thank god" that Aaronssong is not around to post
This is a bit random, but am I the only person who physiologically has difficulty pronouncing the word "nigger"?
I can't say it. It sounds so ridiculous coming out of my mouth that I'd probably never say it, even if I were a racist and didn't think there was anything morally wrong with saying it.
I have the same problem saying the word "*****" (I get around that by pronouncing it, very broadly, as "poozy", which sounds funnier than ***** anyway).
I have a very slight speech impediment, which seems to become exacerbated beyond all reason when I try to say words which I find potentially racist/sexist/otherwise morally questionable.
Seriously, though... I can't imagine saying the word "nigger" even once in front of another person, let alone eleven times in three minutes, before a listening audience of thousands.
It's a stupid word. It sounds silly. Say it, right now. See?
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