White People Can't Say "Nigger."

~ or, "Dr. Laura Pusses Out?" ~

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If you let a small child read this, you are a bad person. If you can teach these concepts to a teenager without making them mad, you are a good teacher.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been pissing off radical feminists by speaking truth to Anonymous for thirty years. She has said many.many.many controversial things, including things that are only controversial because people are too seeeeensitive to which particular words come out of someone's mouth, regardless of content or intent.

Dr. Laura is white as a bedsheet in a blizzard, and she is currently being criticized by racists who are typically the color of mud, because she did something forbidden. She, being white, said "nigger nigger nigger" as part of an illustration that you can find black people on cable television shows saying nigger to/at/about each other all the time. One of my most favoritest examples of this is the rap group "Niggaz With Attitude" who had a hit song about how the singer is a nigger for life.

To be clear: Dr. Laura was entirely correct, and the point she made is valid. The problem she has is two-fold. She, being white, is not entitled to say "nigger", according to people who think it is a word only available to black people. This is BULLSHIT. If you can say nigger, I can say nigger. If I can't say nigger, you can't say nigger. I suppose nigger must be added to George Carlin's list of seven words you can't say on the air: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits (as amended to include twat).

This is the real world, and we are adults. This is not the second grade. Must we really say "The N-Word" instead of "Nigger?" Fuck no. Fuckin' say nigger all you want, I don't give a shit. People get hung up on words. Not the content of the words. Not the context of the words. Not the intent of the speaker. The actual words themselves trip people up. This is stupid.

If Dr. Laura lets some retard nigger cunt's phone call drive her off the air, she's a dumbass bitch. Fuck her if she's too much of a damn coward to stand up for herself. The first amendment was written to protect unpopular speech. Dr. Laura claims she wants to retain her first amendment rights, but she is not being censored by the government. She is not being forced out by her bosses, either, unless the whole story is not being told. She is afraid of herself. She is taking the coward's way out, in my opinion - someone got all butthurt, and now she' quitting. Al Sharpton (who is himself a race hustler) said, "If I were her I would not want to leave with this legacy" (...but...). He says he doesn't think anyone should use 'the N-word,' black or white. I agree, for once, with Al Sharpton.

The only upside of this whole flapdoodle is that the national discussion of race which Eric Holder accuses us of being too cowardly to have, may be in the offing. Good. Let's talk about race. Then at the end of the day, I will go home to my Mexican wife, LB will go home to his black wife, and you will go home and realize "hey, this is a bunch of fucking bullshit. How about we just drop the whole god-damned subject and treat people like fucking people, according to the content of their character instead of the color of their skin?"

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That said, 30 years is a pretty good run on a single-topic radio show. She can retire (and stay rich) when she feels like it. But to allow racist pressure groups to force her off the air as a result of a single radio call-in show's caller getting sideways over a single word, is stupid. She said the next day that it (saying nigger) was the wrong thing to do (say) because people were hurt by what she said. Well listen missy, what you said and how people feel are not necessarily related. You can tell (click the CNN link and listen to the sound bytes) that the caller completely shut off what Dr. Laura was saying because of one word she used. All thought was cut off and pure reactionary emotion came into play. She was offeeeeended because Dr. Laura said "nigger". If the woman caller were to use logic and reason *cough* she would have seen that Dr. Laura was using a word in a context which should not be offensive, as part of an intellectual discussion. Dr. Laura's mistake was assuming that this female caller had the intellectual capacity to get past a single word, and actually think about the words before and after it.

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No, the real reason she must be forced off the air is because she has officially crossed the line. She called out the people who voted for the Dear President.

without giving much thought, a lot of blacks voted for Obama simply 'cause he was half-black. Didn't matter what he was gonna do in office, it was a black thing.

AND she called out the self-hating, non-thinking liberals, including those working in the mass news outlets. She called them right out and nailed them to the wall, and didn't even refer to a single one of them to do it. They KNOW what she meant, and it pissed them off so this story gets coverage.

SCHLESSINGER: Yeah. We've got a black man as president, and we have more complaining about racism than ever. I mean, I think that's hilarious.

CALLER: But I think, honestly, 'cause there's more white people afraid of a black man taking over the nation.

SCHLESSINGER: They're afraid.

CALLER: If you want to be honest about it ...

SCHLESSINGER: Dear, they voted him in. Only 12 percent of the population's black. Whites voted him in.

You are NOT allowed to criticize the Dear President! More importantly, you are NOT allowed to say that he was elected by white people because he was black! It does not matter that what she said, in context, was not about the Dear President or his ignoramus voting base. She must go.

So they win. She caved immediately and announced she would not be renewing her contract. If this is her idea, she is the real loser in all this.