As to the rest of it: yes, you are correct, if the blatantly inaccurate misrepresentation of the lawsuit against Paula Deen that you outline was accurate, that would indeed be going too far.
Please distinguish the lawsuit from the media/mob flap and the moves to get her show dropped, The plaintiffs would not profit from her having less income with which to pay their damages if they win.
The lawsuit alleges discrimination in her business. Why the plaintiffs' lawyer in the deposition went so deeply after details of her past vocabulary (like Ken Starr going after details of Clinton's affair with Monica), we can only speculate. Perhaps it was intended as blackmail. Perhaps someone stole a copy and sold it to the Enquirer.
I have no interest in the lawsuit etc, and only a mild interest in the way the vocabulary flap is being presented.
You should probably not attempt to argue it without knowing anything about it, then.
only a mild interest in the way the vocabulary flap is being presented.
You do indeed have the ability to be uninterested. Goooood for you. You should also probably not try to argue this, either, since you don't care and don't know anything about it.
Oh, wait, does your ignorance extend so far that you are imagining the only time the word "nigger" came up in the lawsuit was during an assertion Paula Deen used it (to quote your first tag) FIFTY YEARS AGO?
(Off by a factor of ten, much...)
I imagine it must be lovely to be able to make up things to sustain your own "mild interest", and again, do thank you for making it so brilliantly clear that you treasure your ignorance.
Oh yeah, let's totally ignore the "plans for plantation-style wedding with slaves", "sambo burger", "discriminatory hiring and payment practices", "discriminatory promotion practices", "non-compensation of overtime, with extra discrimination", "sexual harassment of women at the workplace by Bubba", "belittling, name-calling with racial pejoratives and harassing workers who are people of color"... and oh hey, all this in 2007ish and onward, which is totes like 50 years ago! :D
Oh and Food Network had already observed that even before this latest revelation, Deen's show's viewer ratings had been going down, which is a good reason for the network to do axe the show (hey, if "low ratings" can kill Firefly, then surely it applies here too).
Also, I believe it is called as "free market", when a private company picks and chooses who will represent their brand for maximum gain.
Even more hilarious, sort of, is when some Deen-defenders immediately assume that Deen must be a Conservative. Well, guess what, it turns out that some people who vote for Democrats can be pretty clueless and nasty as well. It is not a magic shield against being a bigot (and it really doesn't speak well of the other party if the defenders' assumption of Deen's willingness of using bigoted language means that the person belongs to their side); Deen's reasons for voting and supporting candidates of Democrats could be for about any reason whatsoever, since she's not their candidate.
That said, this chocolate is divine. Mmmm. And I have an absolutely decadent hot cocoa recipe that uses dark chocolate as well...
Oh, while we're at it, let's drop in a snide aside about how the plaintiffs totally won't profit from her losing her job, and are in this for the money. >.>
Also remember to call the free market a mob, as long as they're picking on an "elderly Southern woman".
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Date: 2013-06-27 03:50 pm (UTC)As to the rest of it: yes, you are correct, if the blatantly inaccurate misrepresentation of the lawsuit against Paula Deen that you outline was accurate, that would indeed be going too far.
Please distinguish the lawsuit from the media/mob flap and the moves to get her show dropped, The plaintiffs would not profit from her having less income with which to pay their damages if they win.
The lawsuit alleges discrimination in her business. Why the plaintiffs' lawyer in the deposition went so deeply after details of her past vocabulary (like Ken Starr going after details of Clinton's affair with Monica), we can only speculate. Perhaps it was intended as blackmail. Perhaps someone stole a copy and sold it to the Enquirer.
I have no interest in the lawsuit etc, and only a mild interest in the way the vocabulary flap is being presented.
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Date: 2013-06-27 03:53 pm (UTC)You should probably not attempt to argue it without knowing anything about it, then.
only a mild interest in the way the vocabulary flap is being presented.
You do indeed have the ability to be uninterested. Goooood for you. You should also probably not try to argue this, either, since you don't care and don't know anything about it.
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Date: 2013-06-27 07:16 pm (UTC)(Off by a factor of ten, much...)
I imagine it must be lovely to be able to make up things to sustain your own "mild interest", and again, do thank you for making it so brilliantly clear that you treasure your ignorance.
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Date: 2013-06-27 07:49 pm (UTC)Oh and Food Network had already observed that even before this latest revelation, Deen's show's viewer ratings had been going down, which is a good reason for the network to do axe the show (hey, if "low ratings" can kill Firefly, then surely it applies here too).
Also, I believe it is called as "free market", when a private company picks and chooses who will represent their brand for maximum gain.
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Date: 2013-06-27 08:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-06-27 08:38 pm (UTC)Or wait, maybe nothing like a mob lynching at all!
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Date: 2013-06-27 08:56 pm (UTC)...having just typed that, I need more wine. And you mentioned chocolate?
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Date: 2013-06-27 09:23 pm (UTC)Even more hilarious, sort of, is when some Deen-defenders immediately assume that Deen must be a Conservative. Well, guess what, it turns out that some people who vote for Democrats can be pretty clueless and nasty as well. It is not a magic shield against being a bigot (and it really doesn't speak well of the other party if the defenders' assumption of Deen's willingness of using bigoted language means that the person belongs to their side); Deen's reasons for voting and supporting candidates of Democrats could be for about any reason whatsoever, since she's not their candidate.
That said, this chocolate is divine. Mmmm. And I have an absolutely decadent hot cocoa recipe that uses dark chocolate as well...
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Date: 2013-06-27 08:50 pm (UTC)Also remember to call the free market a mob, as long as they're picking on an "elderly Southern woman".