Bill Maher said the n-word.
I'm not black so I don't care though.
shareDon't worry. He won't pay the way Paula Dean or Michael Richards did.
shareBecause they said it with malice. It's a big difference between a joke and being malicious.
sharePlus he did nothing wrong. He made a reference.
shareWell I wouldn't call it just making a reference. He made a joke. Just like REAL PEOPLE do in REAL LIFE. No fake outrage from internet/media folk. Because in the real world, people make jokes all the time. I was talking with my black Dominican supervisor one day and we were talking about what nigger and spic means and the different connotations they can have and he comes out with "So I'm a Spic-Nigger" and we were both dying with laughter. Because in the real life real world, people make jokes and it's not a big deal. If I called him that term out of malice, then that would be the wrong thing.
shareA job I worked some 20+ years ago, you could joke with others about things like that without it turning ugly.
I won't say my nationality here but it never bothered me to hear those jokes (about mine) and they had no issues with ones about them -- as long as people didn't mean harm and you knew who you could/couldn't or shouldn't joke around with. We knew we respected one another.
People are too touchy these days.
I don't like the N word or the S word (for Hispanics), etc.
What boggles my mind is when black people use the N word so freely and frequently but are so highly offended when it comes from anyone other than black.
I guess maybe it is one of those situations like for example when I was a kid - I will pick on my younger sibling but don't anyone out of the family dare do it.
Am I on to something here? If that's what it is, fine.
Either way I won't use those words but I do think generally speaking people are too easily offended these days.
There was a thread here a couple months ago about tv shows that would never make it these days because of our PC culture now. Does anyone remember this thread I'm talking about?
There used to be a time when people could laugh at themselves.
April,
I didn't hear the Bill Maher thing in it's context but my point was, if it's someone liberal, you'll recover much easier.
As far as Paula and Michael, I already forgot the details surrounding those stories but I do recall their punishment being worse than their crime.
Madonna should be in prison for her comments which were a direct threat to our President yet nothing became of it. But one mention of a certain word, look out!
https://youtu.be/BoLPLsQbdt0
Oh, Michael's punishment was WELL DESERVED. This is what we call going bat shit crazy!!
And THIS is a joke:
https://youtu.be/G3rYRC_Rv6Q