I found this to be really spot on.
So, Paula Deen Got Fired For Saying The “N” Word A Long Time Ago…
Written by Daisy
If you’re a Food Network fan or a foodie or have been watching TV or reading the news at all for the past day and a half, you know that Paula Deen has been fired for being a racist.
I’m not one of those foodie-type people. I don’t spend a lot of time in my kitchen, and usually those cooking folks on TV just make me feel more inadequate when I DO spend time in my kitchen, so I avoid those shows, frankly. So yeah – I know who Paula Deen is, and I know that she’s 66 years old and from the South, and I know that things may have looked a little different in the south for a 66-year old woman.
Before you jump me, bleeding hearts, I’m also a believer that using the “N-word” – specifically in this case in the workplace (if that’s indeed what happened here) – is without-a-doubt a fireable offense. So before we go any further, there you go. It’s inexcusable.
BUT – and yes, there’s a big ol’ but here – I also believe in CONSISTENCY. If you say the “N-word,” you’re a giant douchecanoe with issues. But if you call a woman a c*nt or a tw*t? I believe that’s just as offensive and JUST as fire-worthy, because you have the same issues. So let’s discuss that, shall we? Because there seems to be a bit of moral selectivism in this country, and it’s annoying me.
Case in point: I have a great deal of liberal friends on Facebook who have their panties all up in a wad about Paula Deen and her offensive comments (from years ago, mind you, that are apparently fireable offenses now). These are the same people who “Like” jackwads like Bill Maher and David Lettermen. They LIKE him. And those guys effortlessly call women c*nts and tw*ts…because that’s FUNNY, you see. Now, to me – as a woman – a man calling a woman those names are as offensive as a white person calling a black person the “N-word.” They’re just sexism instead of racism. Same thing, though. Just a different “ism.” Yet, I don’t see my liberal friends on Facebook being OUTRAGED about those men treating women with such horrifying disrespect.
And we all know why, right? It’s because they’re talking about CONSERVATIVE women in that context. And to liberals in this country, conservatives – especially conservative women – are second-class citizens. We’re nothing more than the scum on the bottom of a liberal’s shoe. Not EQUAL to them at all, therefore not worthy of the same respect that they’d give ‘their own kind,’ yes?
Kinda sounds a bit like a familiar civil rights struggle back in the 60s, huh?
I mean, if Lettermen called FLOTUS a tw*t? Or if Maher would’ve called Hillary Clinton a c*nt? The earth may have imploded.
But when they aimed their sexism toward conservative women? Laughter.
No one was reprimanded. No one was fired. In fact, these guys were CELEBRATED by the left.
Unbelievable the hypocrisy here, folks.
So back to Paula Deen. I really don’t give two rat’s butts whether or not she’s fired. What I do care about is the double freaking standard in this country. A little less selective moral outrage would be nice.
And a little more consistency would make me less sick to my stomach when raising a young, conservative girl in a country where racism is obviously horrible, but sexism against her specifically? Totally OK.
How’s that for progress?