Bye Bye Paula Deen! FN show will not be renewed...

Me too~

But it is a big thing - even if she and her attorneys want to claim it's a function of her "time" BS

A wedding dinner staffed by "slaves"?? seriously??

 
Do I like her, no.

I would bet you would have a hard time finding a Southerner who is almost 70 years old who has not used that word. I believe she was talking about 30 years ago.

 
Did you read this bit, Melissa?

Q. One of the things that you had tried to — that you and your husband tried to teach your children was not to use the N-word in a mean way. ... Could you give me an example of how you have demonstrated for them a nice way to use the N-word?

A. We hear a lot of things in the kitchen. Things that they — that black people will say to each other. If we are relaying something that was said, a problem that we're discussing, that's not said in a mean way.

Q. What about jokes, if somebody is telling a joke that's got —

A. It's just what they are, they're jokes.

Q. Would you consider those to be using the N-word in a mean way?

A. That's ... kind of hard. Most — most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks. Most jokes target — I don't know, I didn't make up the jokes, I don't know. I can't, I don't know. They usually target, though, a group. Gays or straights, black, redneck, you know, I just don't know — I just don't know what to say. I can't, myself, determine what offends another person.

 
I did. I'm just tired of and offended by everyone being offended all the time.

We've turned in to the United States of the offended.

Do you believe that non-anglos don't call anglos derogatory names all the time?

Everyone is always outraged by something and I think lots of it is mock outrage.

The Constitution doesn't give us the right to never be offended.

 
She is a public figure who is being SUED for harassment....

In the privacy of your home? Say whatever you like, when you start impinging on other people's sensibilities, that's off limits.

What is offensive to one person is not up to you to decide, it's up to the person to whom it's been said or directed at, in this case, her staff

If she ever got around to calling me a an "S" word, you bet I would be offended...

One of the reasons we left Australia, as a matter of fact.

 
Better for people to be offended and corrected and maybe change a bit in the future. I am curious as

to who are "non-anglos" and who are "anglos" Brits?

 
I am talking in general. Skinny people are "offended" by fat people.

Vegans are "offended" by meat eaters. Everybody is offended by everyone else's politics.

 
Something is going on with Paula Deen...I do not care for her show, however

I have been watching the episodes where her son is cooking her recipes but making them lighter in fat and grams. He has the food delivered to her for comment over the phone. It is almost like he has taken over the business, is a critique to mom's food and wants to make sure she knows his food is healthier. Oh yes, she always says, "son, this is delicious" but her tone of voice is saying something different. I can't put my finger on it, but just feel in my gut something else is happening here.
Has anyone else picked up on this or have any gut feelings about it?

 
Here, it may mean that, in the UK it means something else altogether...

Which is why, exactly, racism is very slippery slope, Melissa, and something that should be tackled full-on, not on a case-by-case basis, as in, "oh, she's old, this stuff happened when she was young, she can be racist, it's OK...."

 
I haven't "heard" that, but I can understand your point (more)

she seems to be astounded that her son can cut calories, fat, etc and still hav food that tastes good...
he seems to revere her and her cooking, but still wants to make "his mark"

 
Have you read the entire transcipt of her deposition? It's interesting to see the whole

thing in context.

If you've ever been deposed, it is quite an experience. It can turn into a situation of answering an question such as
"Have you ever said (fill-in-the-blank-offensive-word_or_phrase)"

If you say yes, you are vilified, even if it was in the context of telling someone else it is wrong to say, or speaking against saying it. If you say "No", and you've ever said it in any context, you are a liar.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/06/entertainment/deen-deposition/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 
I read the whole thing...

It's not just whether she ever said the word, it's the wedding casted with slaves, it's the jokes, it's the "banter in the kitchen" comments... all of that really, really bothers me.

 
How exactly did I say it was okay for her to be a racist? I didn't.

I do think a lot of people who discriminated against HER, for being unsophisticated, country, fat, etc. are the same people who are taking great satisfaction in her being in trouble for discrimination. I never watched her show, but I do know how many ugly things have been said about her that were ugly for no reason. Ironic, huh?

 
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