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Originally Posted by SarichFan
I don't recall ever saying it was less racist.. but it's slippery for his loser son to bait him, and he DID bait him otherwise why would he bother with taping the phone conversation?
This is different than the Kramer rant in my opinion. He really screwed up there, saying some things that were absolutely demeaning. Dog just said "The Word" in a conversation he thought was a private one.
Like I said, nobody is perfect and obviously the word is used around that household freely when it shouldn't be but I'm not sure if he is a racist person. His freaking minister was a black man and one of the family's closest friends.
I don't know, it's a wierd situation but like I said just because you may speak out of turn about a race in the privacy of your own home dones't necessarily make you a racist in your every day life.
That's all I've got. I just think there's a huge difference in pulling a Kramer and publically degrading an entire race, and this dog situation, which was in private but unbenounced to him his own son had intentions to strike it rich.
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I am not buying your "it's OK to use racist words in private" argument. Frankly it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make the usage any different. The word is still being used in a racist connotation. The n-word is racist because of the meaning, not the setting. What you are saying is that the n-word isn't racist unless a black person hears it.