OrangeGrayBlue
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I'll keep this short and sweet.
Bill Maher, a "liberal" talk show host, says the n-word on air: still has his job.
Pewdiepie, the most popular youTuber there is with huge influence on kids and teens, says the n-word: very few repercussions.
Kaepernick kneels during anthem in protest of racial injustice: blackballed from the NFL.
Jemele Hill calls the president a white supremacist: the WH itself calls for her to be fired.
Now, I'm not going to gloss over the fact that the history of the United States is a history of racial oppression. I'm not suggesting that things were better before in aggregate. However, I recall figures like Don Imus with his "nappy headed hos" comment and Don Sterling with his racist fiasco suffering a huge fallout for their remarks. Over the last year though, it seems like there's been a normalization toward anybody being able to say the n-word, at least to the extent that you can't bank on them suffering professional damage for doing so. At the same time, people who speak from the opposite perspective by pointing out issues of racial injustice are forced out of their positions.
Can't we get back to the good ol' days where white people saying the n-word, or even just something that's racially insensitive, was grounds for resignation?
Why are we in this position where any public figure can say the n-word, there's a fiery op-ed about it in The Atlantic, and then such and such gives a half-assed "sorry if you were offended" apology and everyone moves on? It's easy to say "Because America" but this wasn't our modus operandi in these situations just like 5 years ago.
Bill Maher, a "liberal" talk show host, says the n-word on air: still has his job.
Pewdiepie, the most popular youTuber there is with huge influence on kids and teens, says the n-word: very few repercussions.
Kaepernick kneels during anthem in protest of racial injustice: blackballed from the NFL.
Jemele Hill calls the president a white supremacist: the WH itself calls for her to be fired.
Now, I'm not going to gloss over the fact that the history of the United States is a history of racial oppression. I'm not suggesting that things were better before in aggregate. However, I recall figures like Don Imus with his "nappy headed hos" comment and Don Sterling with his racist fiasco suffering a huge fallout for their remarks. Over the last year though, it seems like there's been a normalization toward anybody being able to say the n-word, at least to the extent that you can't bank on them suffering professional damage for doing so. At the same time, people who speak from the opposite perspective by pointing out issues of racial injustice are forced out of their positions.
Can't we get back to the good ol' days where white people saying the n-word, or even just something that's racially insensitive, was grounds for resignation?
Why are we in this position where any public figure can say the n-word, there's a fiery op-ed about it in The Atlantic, and then such and such gives a half-assed "sorry if you were offended" apology and everyone moves on? It's easy to say "Because America" but this wasn't our modus operandi in these situations just like 5 years ago.
