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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
You said that the context he used (paraphrasing Col Sanders) was enough of a reason to be able to say the word. That is so wrong, it comes across as trolling or pure stupidity. If that's not what you meant, I apologize, it wasn't clear to me.
You are right that the media tends to skew things, depending on which "team" they are catering to.
But like I said, we don't know exactly what was said and how it was said. If the context was "Col Sanders called them N**** and never got backlash (therefore anyone should be able to do so)" or "Col Sanders called them N**** and never got backlash (and that's appalling, and we should never use that word)" those are obviously two VERY different statements. One is blatantly racist, one is not racist, but very stupid to use the word.
You seem to think that no matter what, anyone should be able to use the word as long as they're not calling people names. If that's not what you mean, again I am misunderstanding what you mean when you keep bringing up "context". There's practically no context in the working world where a white dude should use that word. Unless they're a comedian or a professor discussing slavery, or an author writing a book based on the period, or something. Not this guy though.
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You're assuming a lot of me here.
My last post was pretty clear. Try not to read beyond it.
Maybe what he said was racist? I don't know. We're not privy to the entire conversation. And I'm not going to just assume that based off a small segment of it where he indirectly used the n word.
I don't think that's unreasonable. Just my opinion though.