[skippy the wonder dog]

You're not trying to follow at all, Douglas. You're posting childish bullshit about things I didn't write.

And that homophobia of yours isn't really helping you with the moral high ground here.

Grow up.

[Douglas]

Ouch. That was uncalled for. Cool it with the potty mouth. :lol:

[Billy]

wow, this turned grade 7 awful fast...

[sean.bonner]

I regret posting this, I figured some intellegent conversation could come from this, or at least it may interest some people. But whatever, some people decided to highjack the thread, nothing I can really do. Kind of wish I could hit the lock button when this was starting out.

[Douglas]

Thanks for your contribution. Soory about having an opinion. Where is yours by the way or is this just too much for you?

[skippy the wonder dog]

Hijacked the thread?

You might not like the tone of our discussion, but it's on topic.

[sean.bonner]

It certainly could have been discussed in a more mature manner.

[skippy the wonder dog]

Well, that was my point at the time.

[Douglas]

If all you little whiners don't like it say something else. Or just sit there and tsk tsk all day. Whatever floats you boat. Skippy gets me all pissed but it forces me to have an opinion and try to back it up. What about the rest of you? You think he was justified in dropping N bombs all over the place? Huh? Anything?

[tigerthelion]

Well, I heard quite a few laughs. Isn't his job to get people to laugh? Just asking. Who cares? The world is way too sensitive these days. He made a comment. So what? He was wrong to make the comment but probably 70 percent of people make racial slurs. I've heard plenty of black people call white's "whiteboy", and plenty of white people call black people the "N" word. Where do you draw the line? Dave Chappelle makes racist remarks about whites all the time. Is there a line in comedy?

[Douglas]

Oh my god! Someone else has an opinion. Look out, this could get ugly.

[sean.bonner]

I've been trying to find this book in a library for quite some time:
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It seems like it would be a good read. Anybody here read it?

[skippy the wonder dog]

Well, I heard quite a few laughs. Isn't his job to get people to laugh? Just asking. Who cares? The world is way too sensitive these days. He made a comment. So what? He was wrong to make the comment but probably 70 percent of people make racial slurs. I've heard plenty of black people call white's "whiteboy", and plenty of white people call black people the "N" word. Where do you draw the line? Dave Chappelle makes racist remarks about whites all the time. Is there a line in comedy?

I'd say Richards was pretty much across that line, wherever it is, double standards notwithstanding. There's not really any debate that he should apologize.

The bigger question, for me, is whether he really deserves everything that's going to follow. Think he'll get a TV role any time in the next couple of years?

In his standup career, he's probably dealt with thousands of hecklers. So what was it about this one?

[tigerthelion]

Well, I heard quite a few laughs. Isn't his job to get people to laugh? Just asking. Who cares? The world is way too sensitive these days. He made a comment. So what? He was wrong to make the comment but probably 70 percent of people make racial slurs. I've heard plenty of black people call white's "whiteboy", and plenty of white people call black people the "N" word. Where do you draw the line? Dave Chappelle makes racist remarks about whites all the time. Is there a line in comedy?

I'd say Richards was pretty much across that line, wherever it is, double standards notwithstanding. There's not really any debate that he should apologize.

The bigger question, for me, is whether he really deserves everything that's going to follow. Think he'll get a TV role any time in the next couple of years?

In his standup career, he's probably dealt with thousands of hecklers. So what was it about this one?

That's the question. Maybe he had a bad day. Maybe he was irritated and thought it would be funny to lose his temper. Maybe he's just a racist and hates black people. Maybe he did it to get publicity.

An issue for me is that people are going to make such a huge deal about this. It's ONE THING Mike Richards said one night doing stand up comedy. He is 57 years old. I mean, is this really an important issue? Why are people so affected by this? I'm sure there are millions of african americans that are outraged. For what? Something some guy who is a complete stranger said about black people? People need to lighten up. This isn't even a story to me, regardless of whether I'm white or black or whatever. It's the same with Mel Gibson. So what if he made a remark about Jews? Who cares what his opinion is anyway? Oprah comes off as a racist to me but you don't see people complaining about her. What about Al Sharpton and his "pro black" thinking? Why are these things turned into such big stories?

[cferneyh]

I don't understand why anyone would be surprised about the big deal being made of this, especially in light of the recent Mel Gibson meltdown and the big deal that was made of that.