http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/#comment-6935 Boosy Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:31:24 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/#comment-6935 I agree that the buryingn of the word is pure coonery. however, we all know this mayor is using the race card, if that is what he wants to succumb to , let him have that. he's a nigga, i probably would have done the same thing if i got caught. If he was out here in marbella, it probably wouldnt fly sorry nigz...... I agree that the buryingn of the word is pure coonery. however, we all know this mayor is using the race card, if that is what he wants to succumb to , let him have that. he’s a nigga, i probably would have done the same thing if i got caught. If he was out here in marbella, it probably wouldnt fly sorry nigz……

]]> http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/#comment-6925 john tomasic Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:34:59 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/#comment-6925 Um, I would say that the alleged hypocrisy is a nonstory. That the Associated Press thought it was a story is more a story. To begin with, the idea that we ban words is foolish, a repressive approach to improving anything, the kind of medicine that's worse than the disease. That some clearly pretty witless AP journalist thinks it's a story does not make it a story. ("The n-word has been used as an epithet to describe black people for more than a hundred years." Gee, thanks for that! Was this a report for third graders?) Fact is Kilpatrick was not being hypocritical. Please. He wasn't calling anyone a "nigger," neither as an epithet nor a term of endearment. He wasn't going back on the spirit of the "funeral" ceremony held earlier in Detroit at which he spoke against use of the word. This time he was using the word as a word, reporting the hurtfulness of the fact that he was being called it. How should he have better expressed that information and the feeling tied to it? The whole point was to convey the shocking and unacceptable-ness of being called that extremely loaded word in a loaded context. We can accept his talking about his pain in real terms, can we not? Are we all children? Are we all being forced now by the AP thought police not to report on a word that was used to defame us, to make us feel bad, its power being such that we dare not utter it aloud? Imagine the ridiculousness of a black mayor getting up in front of the nation and saying... "I have been hurt. I have been called the n-word." As a culture, we could all then raise our hands and ask our AP language instructors if at the commercial break we could be excused to go "number one" or "tinkle-tinkle." Good god. Um, I would say that the alleged hypocrisy is a nonstory. That the Associated Press thought it was a story is more a story. To begin with, the idea that we ban words is foolish, a repressive approach to improving anything, the kind of medicine that’s worse than the disease. That some clearly pretty witless AP journalist thinks it’s a story does not make it a story. (”The n-word has been used as an epithet to describe black people for more than a hundred years.” Gee, thanks for that! Was this a report for third graders?) Fact is Kilpatrick was not being hypocritical. Please. He wasn’t calling anyone a “nigger,” neither as an epithet nor a term of endearment. He wasn’t going back on the spirit of the “funeral” ceremony held earlier in Detroit at which he spoke against use of the word. This time he was using the word as a word, reporting the hurtfulness of the fact that he was being called it. How should he have better expressed that information and the feeling tied to it? The whole point was to convey the shocking and unacceptable-ness of being called that extremely loaded word in a loaded context. We can accept his talking about his pain in real terms, can we not? Are we all children? Are we all being forced now by the AP thought police not to report on a word that was used to defame us, to make us feel bad, its power being such that we dare not utter it aloud? Imagine the ridiculousness of a black mayor getting up in front of the nation and saying… “I have been hurt. I have been called the n-word.” As a culture, we could all then raise our hands and ask our AP language instructors if at the commercial break we could be excused to go “number one” or “tinkle-tinkle.” Good god.

]]> http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/#comment-6906 Lauren Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:39:28 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2008/03/13/just-another-hypocrite/#comment-6906 Well put, Marissa. Well put, Marissa.

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