You Keep Using That Word
In the comments to this post featuring a video of Katie Couric calling the Vice President of the United States “the white guy”, Hapkido said “Couric’s comment was racist, plain & simple. I wouldn’t accuse her of deliberatley being racist, however.”
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Which gave me pause.
How can a comment be racist if the speaker isn’t?
Maybe racist is the wrong word. Time to check the dictionary… which says it means “racially discriminatory”.
That’s a head-scratcher. Discrimination implies some sort of adverse action. Katie didn’t act, she just talked. In fact, I don’t think it’s possible for ANY words (or cartoons) to be racist by themselves, apart from other evidence of speaker intent to do harm.
It’s time to resurrect two long-neglected words to help us understand this situation:
The first is an irrational opinion against something, the second is an irrational opinion in favor.
In this case, I don’t think Katie was prejudiced. She sounded CHEERFUL about the presence of “the white guy”. She wasn’t like “curse Joe Biden for destroying the multiculturalism of this moment with his foul caucasity!”
No, she was HAPPY.
So I conclude that she is not racist, but merely has a bias toward seeing groups of politicians with varying skin colors and sex organs.
Now this implies that she would conversely have a prejudice against seeing groups of similarly colored & sexed politicians. Does this mean that if she ever saw a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, she would end both her life and career in a Columbine-like explosion of bullets and wrath?
Logic says “yes”.
But that’s not a reason to confuse prejudice with racism.
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February 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Main stream media guy says: “You need to consider other peoples feelings when denying them bail out cash” and “This post is horribly inshensitive to protected class individuals”
February 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Of all the things you could laughingly call Joe Biden, “White Guy” is the best she could come up with? Stick to the cue cards, Katie – you are spectacularly moronic…just like “the white guy”.
February 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Now now now, DamnCat…. we have to remember we live in teh age of “diversity”, where Americans and Stupican Americans like Katie Carsick have to co-exist. Otherwise you’d be shown to be “smartist”. lol
February 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am
she is not racist, but merely has a bias toward seeing groups of politicians with varying skin colors and sex organs.
You give her too much credit. Katie “Carsick” (LOL #2), like her media colleagues, have a bias only FOR politicians/entertainers of the LIBERAL stripe. Her/Their prejudice is AGAINST anyone to the right of…oh, I’d say to the right of Communism.
Oh, and America is still a racist nation since the voters selected Obama. It’s just as racist to vote FOR a candidate based ONLY on skin color (since he had no other qualifications) as it is to vote against someone based only on skin color.
Fortunately, voters for the McCain-Palin ticket are NOT racist. We weren’t voting for or against Obama’s color … we were voting FOR Sarah’s Awesomeness!
February 27th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Wooo I need to get in touch with the new GM of amarketplaceofideas…..he’s going to want to hire Katie Carsick! She will feel right at home with MSMG (Main Stream Media Guy). I can see them creating an all global warming all of the time channel right off the bat. Oops…..history / discovery channel already has it covered. Don’t forget to stock up on baby wipes before they are banned! You will need them when you take a big meaty dump even though you are forcibly coerced into eating vegetarian.
February 27th, 2009 at 11:39 am
How many courics does Katie weigh? Todays lesson is about weights and measures boys and girls. Today I will talk about a unit of weight called the couric: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=couric
February 27th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
This issue has been niggled to ad nauseum!
February 27th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Bring on the Congressional Black Caucus!
February 27th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
BTW: the couric is not to be confused with the Oreck which is the unit of “suck”
February 27th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Aaauuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Sorry, I was just trying to get in touch with my inner monkey.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Katie Couric is white and she used words —therefor she must be a racist.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Does this mean that if she ever saw a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, she would end both her life and career in a Columbine-like explosion of bullets and wrath?
Damn, I sure hope so.
February 27th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
To vote for Obama even though he’s got dirt in his background that would, with 100% certainly, get him kicked off the ticket if he were white, is racist. So there.
February 27th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
How do you keep the congressional black caucasions from taking a couric? throw them a basketball.
February 28th, 2009 at 2:29 am
Before conservatives go defending liberals for not being racist,I have a thought. I think most white liberal elites are racist. Their desire to prove they are not gives us Obama. They don’t care about the country as much as their own reputation after all.
Remember they are democrats. The party of race. Always has been always will be.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:06 am
There you go again, trying to project inelligence or rationale onto mindless liberals. She said it simply because that’s the kind of thing little kids say.