Letters to the Editor
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Bona Fide Occupational Qualification
Asians working in Chinese restaurants is a Bona Fide Occupational Qualification under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It is OK for a Chinese restaurant to discriminate and hire only Asians. Other BFOQ's: Male model, male sperm donor (Ha!)
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Yep, nothing offensive
Saying you don't like Muslims is pretty self-explanatory. It's kinda like saying you don't like bubonic plague, or being blown up in a shopping mall. I doubt lil' Miss Texas would be saying she doesn't like Muslims if they weren't always blowing stuff up and persecuting/murdering Christians. I didn't hear her say she doesn't like Buddhists.
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She knows what she's doing.
<<But airing this crap struck me as extraordinarily and unnecessarily predatory.>>
Yes, but that's what reality shows do. Every season they need one controversial character (and often that person is happy to be the one who gets all the attention) and you know fans will wait all season to see if she gets her comeuppance or not. Not only is this girl racist, she's proud of it and seems determined to tell the world about it. She is young, but she's old enough to know better.
What I found interesting was the other model who said "she says she's not racist, but she's saying racist things". That moron seemed to think she might not be a racist if she says she's not. I guess this show is perpetuating the models-are-idiots stereotype all around!
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teddy fartman
Sayin' you don't like dem muslims is like me sayin' I don't like knuckledraggin' trailer-trashin', inbreedin', Butt-lite swillin' nascar yellin' confederate votin' red state thimblewits. Not that I ever would. That would be categorizing millions of people you don't know. That's be iggnerrunt, right teddy? Back to your Bud. It's almost noon. You should be drunk by now. Hic.
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Fight stereotyping by stereotyping! Very progressive of you all.
So one dunce from Texas says a few offensive things on TV, most likely after being egged on by the show's producers to help create controversy & ratings, and now the letter writers who seem to disagree with her statements the most take the opportunity to make statements about Texas, conservatives, etc., as if she represents everyone in that demographic.
I especially liked the overweight Wal-Mart greeter crack. Of course YOU don't shop at Wal-Mart, since it was founded by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and runs its generators on the blood of minority children. But I didn't realize that you hated everyone who works there, too.
ALL liberals hate America, have multiple abortions, spread AIDS, support suicide bombers, are communists, use drugs, and want to release all jailed criminals back on the street. Do you know how I know? I once heard a liberal say that. It must be true, right?
Most likely, some of the letter writers who gasped when the model said she didn't like Muslims are the same people who have at one point said "I don't like Christians".
One person's opinion doesn't mean anything. Especially hers.
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I've seen pleanty of Asian restaurants with Caucasian and Black staff. When you see a place with all Asian, chances are they're all family members, probably not getting paid. If you know anyone who grew up in a family that owned a restaurant, you know everyone works at the family restaurant. It's like mowing the lawn. You do it, you don't necessariyly get a paycheck. That's how small business owners keep a busines afloat, by working long hours without pay so they can keep payroll down.
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confederate philosophy, texass subset
the twat/twit on the film clip is not an aberration (no, dumbo, that's not a misspelling of abortion). she is firmly in the middle of the reich wing, and texass has infected the whole country with it's particular brand of bbq klan pharisee philosophy. do the names bush and delay ring a bell between your high-set ears and your close set eyes? It's not a stereotype, it's the "modern" cuntservative movement that has the country hurtling toward the abyss. And no, jethro, I don't shop at Mallwart, and never will. Have a lovely evening.
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Like rats fighting
Nobody seems to have mentioned the fact that there is not an ounce of reality on display in the video in question. The white girl is a caricature. The black girl is a caricature. The white girl is repeating something she heard someone else say. The black girl is repeating something she heard someone else say. Neither of them could be said to hold a real subject position. They are either barely human or perfectly human, depending on whether one is a pessimist or an optimist.
Of course no one reading this would be so obtuse as to think that I am dodging the question of the actual racist content of the utterances in question, which could be said to have a life of their own outside of the generically pretty tape recorders that give body to them.
I live in France. I'm a high school teacher. My students are constantly emitting knee-jerk leftist commonplaces. Although I agree with the disembodied content of most of what they say I cannot bring myself to agree with THEM, and I find myself spitting Republican talking points at them in an attempt to engage their nascent critical faculties. This rarely works.
I wish to make my position clearer: from a purely pragmatic point of view, a population alienated in leftist cliches (such as the black girl in question) is probably to be preferred to its opposite.
I come from a southern Red State. For the most part my state is a machine for producing Dani's.
The true question remains: do Dani and the black girl have immortal souls or are they pure illusion?
Abercrombie and Fitch, as well as FUBU, are companies that exist for one reason: to exploit the shallow identifications of shallow people like these girls to make huge profits.
This post is getting boring. I'm going to go look for some porn.
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Xema Gold
You wrote: "...affirmative action is not about handing a black or minority a position because of their color or sex; it's handing a qualified minority a job with the same conditions, pay and eagerness that you would a Caucasian male, or face the consequences."
Um, no. What you describe is the absence of discrimination, a laudable goal that unfortunately our country is still having difficulty reaching more than 40 years after the Civil Rights act. Affirmative action is just what the name implies; it's a deliberate effort to ensure that a minority group is represented in the workforce. This has been, and continues to be, interpreted as giving preferential treatment to minorities, presumably on a temporary basis until the injustices of the pre-civil rights era are rectified. The practice has created a great deal of controversy, and anger against it may have generated some of the beliefs the young woman on TV was presumably taught by her parents and others.
OTOH, I agree that it's more likely she was coached in her inflammatory remarks to boost the show's ratings.