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Originally posted by lendaddy
Does use of the word make you a racist? I mean if you just were so upset with someone (as in this case) that your goal was to insult/belittle them as much as possible as revenge or as an outgrowth of your rage with their actions.......would you not use the most powerful words at your disposal? Even if the words mean nothing to you beyond the effect they have on the person you targeted?
It could be a simple matter of rage not racism.
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I am going to agree w/ this up to a point, people definitely say things they don't really mean in anger. Also, none of us are perfect people and there is a little (or a lot) of bigotry and racism under the surface of most people if you scratched the surface hard enough. Like someone said above, we are civilised people which means that we keep that beast in the cage. Until it gets out. There are white people, for instance, that would never use the N word under normal circumstances but if they just got car-jacked by a black criminal, it would come out. (The word). I'll give a better example; you just lost your GF who you are totally whipped over to a black guy. Oh yeah. Mr. hippy-dippy sensitive vegan PITA guy all the sudden sounds like Tarantino when that happens. But no matter what ethnicity the guy who stole your girl is, you are going to say horrible things about him, whatever fits. If this example does not ring true, use your imagination for some outrage.
The problem w/ M. Richards was that the guy was merely heckling him, and after Richards started it. (The black guys were talking during his stand-up routine). It was so unproportional to whatever imagined offense occurred, just insane. To pull out the most hateful word in the english language when used directly by a white person against a black one, and scream it repeatedly w/ some lynching references thrown in, lets face it, there is no rational explanation or excuse for it. And he did not just hurt the guy(s) he was arguing with, there was a whole room full of black people there!! Un-*******-believable. (I'm assuming here, but the Laugh Factory usually has a pretty black crowd).
So under different circumstances I could understand, (if not condone), his using that word, this would not fall under that heading for me. Unless of course he was insane, in which case it all makes kooky sense.
