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Dog the Bounty Hunter gets pulled after racist incident

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  • #52
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    MikeHoncho wrote: »


    Have heard people of previous generations saying "touch of the tarbrush" in relation to mixed race people. Id say it wasnt implied here but its amazing how a comment like that could be viewed in the wrong context and could make someone seem racist.

    It crossed my mind too. The whole tar and feather thing. But seriously since when did it ever become ok to call someone a nigga or whatever. Its a huge source of pain for the black community in America and i think we and everyone else should respect that. Equating the n work to cracker or whatever is not the same thing as it doesn't have the same connatations for a white person as a black person.


  • #53
    Pigman II
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    bacon? wrote: »
    i was on a date the other night. i told a crap joke, and she then told me 3 n*ger jokes, just out of the blue :eek:

    weird situation.

    Strange. Are either of you a n*ger?


  • #54
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    MikeHoncho wrote: »
    He shouldnt have done that though (hes just a boy).

    Agreed. If he'd just back calmly and had had some of dem French fried potaters then he might have kept himself out of the Hades he's in. Mmm yeap, I reckon so.


  • #55
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    MikeHoncho wrote: »
    Have heard people of previous generations saying "touch of the tarbrush" in relation to mixed race people. Id say it wasnt implied here but its amazing how a comment like that could be viewed in the wrong context and could make someone seem racist.
    I've never heard that saying before.

    Just googled it and found this:
    Hello, BlogLily. The expression is “a touch of the tarbrush”. I used to think it was only used when people were of white and black mixed race but apparently it was used for white and Asian mixed race too. Of course it is offensive but it sounds so antiquated nowadays it has lost its power.
    http://www.helenparocha.com/awasalarmed/?p=49

    My take on it was that tarring everyone with the same brush means you throw them all into the same grouping.

    You learn something new every day.
    togster wrote: »
    It crossed my mind too. The whole tar and feather thing. But seriously since when did it ever become ok to call someone a nigga or whatever. Its a huge source of pain for the black community in America and i think we and everyone else should respect that. Equating the n work to cracker or whatever is not the same thing as it doesn't have the same connatations for a white person as a black person.

    As far as I know, it's still not ok to call someone "a nigga or whatever."

    As for the "Cracker" thing; why should a white person have to put up with a racial slur from a black person?
    If you want equality, then you have to realise that you cannot go around throwing racial slurs at others just because the same thing happened to your grandparents?


  • #56
    bacon?
    Registered Users Posts: 784 ✭✭✭bacon?


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Strange. Are either of you a n*ger?

    no, white.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,869 ✭ [Deleted User]


    togster wrote: »
    . Equating the n work to cracker or whatever is not the same thing as it doesn't have the same connatations for a white person as a black person.

    Balderdash, this sort of hypocrisy and positive discrimination really annoy the fnck outta me. See the last paragraph of Terry's post, as i completely agree with it and can't put it any simpler than he already has.
    GDM wrote: »
    he must be a complete idiot to say stuff like that on camera.

    He didn't say it on camera. He said it in a private conversation with his son, which his son taped and sold to the Enquirer (nearly as big a rag as the Herald).

    He's a scumbag, his son is a scumbag and DTBH shouldn't be on the TV in the first place.


  • #58
    0ubliette
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Balderdash, this sort of hypocrisy and positive discrimination really annoy the fnck outta me. See the last paragraph of Terry's post, as i completely agree with it and can't put it any simpler than he already has.

    Too right, regardless of the connotations both terms are derogatory terms used to describe a specific race of people. If whites, yellows, reds whatever arent allowed use the word n*gger, than neither should anyone be allowed to refer to whites as crackers.


  • #59
    MOH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    cornbb wrote: »
    Here's a transcript of the tape, in case anyone wants to read it and judge for themselves:

    So his show gets pulled for him repeatedly saying n*er in a conversation about how he's worried his show will get pulled if people hear him say n*er?

    Ironing FTW.


  • #60
    Dragan
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    In Dog we trust.....


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  • #61
    togster
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    0ubliette wrote: »
    Too right, regardless of the connotations both terms are derogatory terms used to describe a specific race of people. If whites, yellows, reds whatever arent allowed use the word n*gger, than neither should anyone be allowed to refer to whites as crackers.

    Meh so you would be offended if someone called you a cracker? I doubt it. You can't disregard the connatations of the slur as it is these connatations define the slur. Calling someine a nigga is much worse than calling someone a cracker imo because of the historical implications.


  • #62
    biko
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    But blacks call each other niggas all the time? Is it a term of endearment then?
    If you rearrange the letters in n*gger you get ginger :D


  • #63
    togster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭togster


    biko wrote: »
    But blacks call each other niggas all the time? Is it a term of endearment then?
    If you rearrange the letters in n*gger you get ginger :D

    They try and claim it as their own thus reducing its effect in relation to its racist commatations.


  • #64
    spank_inferno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Doesnt Dog know that if he apologises to Jesse Jackson that will smooth this over??

    (kiss it...... apologise)


  • #65
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Strange. Are either of you a n*ger?

    Does your girlfriend have any of A) mullet B) handlebar moustache C) giant muscles perhaps?


  • #66
    Dinxminx
    Registered Users Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Dinxminx


    What. An. Idiot.


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  • #67
    Caliden
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    It's just a word, get over it


  • #68
    spooiirt!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭spooiirt!!


    Definition of Racism:

    When white people are racist. Vice versa doesnt exist/matter/interest anyone.


  • #69
    Kold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    I agree that the real case here is people thinking it's OK to record private conversations and sell them for money. Weird eco system they have in the states. Comprising of Celebrities, the sluts that f*ck them and sell the stories, the photographers who camp in their garbage and now every c*nt who has a recording device.

    I thought the reason to watch Dog was because he's such a f*cking douche. (Still only when stoned though).


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