[Food] And millions of sticks of butter simultaneously cried out in joy...

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Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

We don't want that self-centered bitch back, kthxby.

I think I've mentioned on here that I've met her in person, working a security detail. Never have I wanted to strangle a public figure more than on that day. (Since, my priorities have shifted somewhat, but this ain't the political thread)
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Officer_Charon said:
We don't want that self-centered bitch back, kthxby.

I think I've mentioned on here that I've met her in person, working a security detail. Never have I wanted to strangle a public figure more than on that day. (Since, my priorities have shifted somewhat, but this ain't the political thread)
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Man, I'm glad Paula Deen can unite us in agreement, since wow she is awful in a myriad of ways


also I don't usually call out stupid "Needs a lock" but what up DarkAudit???
 
Dave

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So what exatly did she say? I have heard nothing more about this than, "OMG RACIST!!"
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Went by her house in Thunderbolt whilst fishing with a buddy one day.... was tempted to dump the leftover bait on her porch.

Waste of bait.[DOUBLEPOST=1371852854][/DOUBLEPOST]@Dave, here appears to be a report with a transcript of the offending remarks...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/paula-deen-racial.php[DOUBLEPOST=1371852900][/DOUBLEPOST]Specifically:

“Well what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” the lawsuit claims Deen said. “Now that would be a true southern wedding, wouldn’t it? But we can’t do that because the media would be on me about that.”
 
Dave

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Okay, I just read a bit about it. From what I'd been hearing I thought this was something from the wayback machine, but apparently this incident was in 2007 so....

I mean, I'll admit that I used racial slurs - and yes, the n-word - when I was a kid, but it was more because of the place and time than because of any real hatred. I had never met a black person, but everyone in my family (older generation) were fairly racist so I went with the jokes because it's what I knew. Then I joined the military and actually met some guys...and they were actual, by God people, not murdering ne'er-do-wells! Imagine my surprise!

So no pass here, Paula![DOUBLEPOST=1371853070][/DOUBLEPOST]
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Here you go.
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Smartass.
 
GasBandit

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Gilgamesh said:
I'm sure she's crying all the way home in millions of dollars of endorsement deals she's gotten over the years.
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She better have invested it well, and not squandered it on living high on the hog, cause I have a feeling work's going to be hard to come by going forward.
 
figmentPez

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My sister and I have been anti-Paula Deen for years. On a Food Network special, Deen pushed a pregnant Giada DeLaurentis, and that just does not fly. You can playfully push other, healthy, adults, but not someone who is carrying a child. After seeing that my sister found out she's a bit of a bully and not easy to work for.
 
GasBandit

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Only the constant supply of butter keeps the beast in check, when the supply dwindles, the blood sugar drops, the gloves come off, and Paula turns into a monster.
 
Silent Bob

Silent Bob

Damn it! I had Facebook meme gold, and the person erased it.


Essentially someone on my Facebook feed was utterly confused why Paula Deen was fired. To paraphrase: "You can't have a big plantation style wedding without black men as servers. People can't just forget slavery did exist, and that's what a plantation wedding was like."


I tried to explain that racism is defined as one race thinking it's superior to another, and having "black houseboys" at a wedding is an extension of that very thing. It's wrong. Period.

She then goes on about why it would be ok for a white person to have a Mexican themed wedding fiesta, but not a plantation style wedding as she described it.

Uh...because you're not showcasing Mexicans tending your landscaping which would be analogous to having black slave servants at your plantation wedding.

She also made another attempt at a weak analogy comparing the Paula Deen's wedding idea to actors portraying slaves in Williamsburg, VA reenactments. There's a difference, I said, those actors are doing so for educational perpose; they're raising awareness about their people's plight. Having black servants exclusively as houseboy type servants for entertainment of white people - making them tapdance and serve you - is a form of degradation. It essentially makes fun of a horrible thing.

I was unfriended after that. WHAT THE FUCK!??!
 
Tress

Tress

Paula Deen's fans are outraged.

:rolleyes:

Here's another one with some choice quotes.

“I get it, believe me,” Ms. Green said. “But what’s hard for people to understand is that she didn’t mean it as racist. It sounds bad, but that’s not what’s in her heart. She’s just from another time.”
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What's so racist about racist slurs? Amirite?
The Food Network’s Facebook page swelled with Deen supporters who disagreed with the punishment meted out by network executives.
“Everybody in the South over 60 used the N-word at some time or the other in the past,” wrote Dick Jackson, a white man from Missouri.
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"Yeah, most of us are racist assholes around here! How dare a private nationwide company not want to be associated with that!"
“I don’t understand why some people can use it and others can’t,” said Rebecca Beckerwerth, 55, a North Carolina native who lives in Arizona and had made reservations at the restaurant Friday.
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I'm willing to bet there's a lot you don't understand, idiot.
Students of Southern culture say that people like Ms. Deen learned a quiet, crippling system of polite etiquette to smooth the edges of segregation. While overt shows of racism are rare, it still persists.
“You still hear people talk that way if people think they are in a group of like-minded people,” said Richard Hattaway, 56, who lives just outside Savannah.
He said his grandfather used the word often and without rancor in referring to African-Americans. But Mr. Hattaway’s own parents forbade its use. It is an evolution common to many white families in the South, he said.
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Really, it was a term of affection. Every time he called a black person a dirty n*****, he really meant it as a compliment. :rolleyes:
 
PatrThom

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I don't think this is what they meant by the South rising.
If it is, I look forward to it getting punched down reeeal quick.

--Patrick
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Tress said:
Paula Deen's fans are outraged.

:rolleyes:

Here's another one with some choice quotes.


What's so racist about racist slurs? Amirite?

"Yeah, most of us are racist assholes around here! How dare a private nationwide company not want to be associated with that!"

I'm willing to bet there's a lot you don't understand, idiot.

Really, it was a term of affection. Every time he called a black person a dirty n*****, he really meant it as a compliment. :rolleyes:
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My brother floored me last time I went home by dropping the N-bomb, I believe he referred to walmart type stores as "n-word stores". My mouth literally dropped open. I sometimes forget how different sheltered small towns are.
 
Ravenpoe

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Bowielee said:
My brother floored me last time I went home by dropping the N-bomb, I believe he referred to walmart type stores as "n-word stores". My mouth literally dropped open. I sometimes forget how different sheltered small towns are.
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You just described every holiday, when I have to see my extended family.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

My entire family, without a single hint of irony, still call brazil nuts and licorice babies by their insanely offensive monikers.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

Bowielee said:
My entire family, without a single hint of irony, still call brazil nuts and licorice babies by their insanely offensive monikers.
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Huh, I had to Google that. I had literally no idea there was an offensive name for brazil nuts, and I'd never even heard of licorice babies.
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Sounds alot like the bigoted/racist town I came from. The funny part? The Mexican/Latino community there were racist against Blacks. I always thought that was ironic and silly because in the South, alot of Mexicans were treated as low class as the Black community in many parts by the White community. Yet they gladly will Crab Bucket pull each other down to make the White community happy. It's pretty repulsive.
 
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