Being Lebanese does not make it reasonable to make racial slurs against Muslims or Arabs, any more than it is reasonable for African Americans to use the N word, or for Jews to use racial slurs regarding Jews.
I never used an ethnic slur "against" them. Do you think my post was "against" Arabs? Not everyone perceives it that way. Some people understand the spirit I worte it in, and understand that I was being facetious.
Using racial slurs in jokes or in facetious statements does not make them any more accpetable.
Well, that's an interesting point of view. I think you should write, "acceptable to me," because in the Borat film (which wasn't a fiction) he ripped off one ethnic slur after another, lots of anti-semitism, lots of Arab baiting. And people laughed. Not at Jews or Arabs, but at Borat, because they knew he was being facetious.
That you don't understand why using racial slurs within a novel like Huckelberry Finn is a difficrent situation does put serious doubt to your statement that you are a teacher.
It's the same. I wasn't using slurs AGAINST anyone. I was using them to make a point, a non-racist point, in context. That being said, I wouldn't use the N-word, because it has too vexed a history, or though I understood that Kramer was trying to be over-the-top when he used the word, I thought he was a stupid idiot. But I also don't buy it when non-African-Americans lecture people like Chris Rock on whether he should be using the N-word, or other African-Americans who laugh at Chris Rock for using it. It's really not up to you to tell them whether they have a right to take a hateful word and empower it in new and different ways.
I have no idea why it relevant that there are millions of Lebanese Christians, or Palestinian Christains or Israel Christians.
I have no idea either. That only came up because some others questioned my religion and ethnicity. Notice I didn't bring it up until directly confronted about my background.
I suppose it is your priviledge to attack Dungy as a freak for celebrating his Christianity in his moment of triumph, thanking God for his victory, and yes, him being proud that one can win the SB without cursing, raising your voice or demeaning your players. That you think that this isn't rare is just plain silly.
That's not what I did. I repeatedly defended his right to invoke a Christian God. It's clear the problem was with noting the social and historical importance of a victory by a Christian coach. No one here has yet been able to tell me why this is a notable or important event. What difference does it make? You tell me. Just who is he comparing himself to when he says this time a coach won doing it the Christian way, the right way. He's used both lines. All well and good that he follows the Christian way. Christ was righteous. I applaud that. But he goes too far when he makes it evident that this is somehow a break with the past.
I'm sure many agree with your view that thanking God in public, especially by a public figure at a sporting event is inappropriate.
I'm fine with people thanking God in public.
And I know, your angst is about more than that. Sure it is. It is about a public expression of Christianity.
You're wrong. It's too bad you haven't read what I wrote fairly early in this thread. But I forgive you (as a good Christian should) because this is a fairly long worthless thread on a completely meanignless incident which I responded to with a sarcastic crack, and I wish I hadn't at all, but I only stuck around because I felt being called a racist and a bigot was something that I had to respond to.
I'm sure you would be mortified if the networks showed the pregame and postgame prayers, celebrated by members of opposing teams before almost every NFL game. I'm sure some are non-denominational. Most are not.
I played football. I went to a Catholic school. I took part in these. But yeah, I felt bad for the Jewish football players. And really, what Tony Boselli used to bring into the locker room week after week was also over the top and ridiculous.
