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    TacoBelleKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:34pm

    As a Pittsburgher, this woman is completely infuriating. She had been posting holier-than-thou Facebook posts for a very long time prior to this incident, and I was happy that the station finally took action after this horribly racist and excruciating post.

    The most frustrating part have been locals yelling “freedom of speech!” Please, please, can we start teaching more civics classes in high school, so people will finally understand governmental action vs. public opinion?!

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      Desliu313TacoBelle
      6/21/16 5:43pm

      Agreed. Major second hand embarrassment from a fellow yinzer.

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      CisAwesomeTacoBelle
      6/21/16 5:45pm

      Of course, you hate it when a e.g. religious school fires a teacher for talking about gay marriage in a way you agree with.

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    Ka Mai - New and ImprovedKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:43pm

    The thing people (mostly white people) don’t get about situations like this is that context matters. It’s the same issue that comes up when white people get mad because they aren’t allowed to say “nigger.” The fact is, all words get their meanings from two places. There’s the denotative meaning (i.e. the dictionary definition of a word) but there is also the connotative meaning (the meaning derived from the contextual situation in which the word is used). The denotative meaning is more or less set in stone and agreed upon regardless of who is using the word. The connotative meaning, however, must take into account who is saying the word, who they are saying it to, when and where they are saying it, what situation it’s being used in, and the history of how that word has been used in the past, and who has used it. Viewed from this perspective, the word “nigger” coming from the lips of a white person carries with it a vivid history of the degradation and oppression of black people. It’s a word to be spoken downward to someone who is less than the person speaking it for the purpose of reinforcing exactly that power disparity. Coming from a black person, however, the context is entirely different. It’s spoken laterally, to a member of one’s peer group, and in fact has taken on almost an endearing connotation as black people have reclaimed the word for their own use. In this sense it can hardly even be considered the same word, so different are the meanings derived from the wildly differing contexts.

    All that is to say that simply saying “if a black person can say it, then I should be able to say it” is a childishly naive viewpoint that utterly fails to understand how language itself works, and why the words we choose to use are important.

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      MalcireKa Mai - New and Improved
      6/21/16 5:49pm

      My question though is whether the laws dealing with employment discrimination take into account context based on the speakers race and gender. If they do she is obviously loose. If not though she likely has a good case.

      Any legal people have any clue on that?

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      Ka Mai - New and ImprovedMalcire
      6/21/16 5:54pm

      I think that will depend largely on the exact wording of the laws in Pennsylvania. I doubt they have to so much prove that the comments were racist. More likely they just have to demonstrate that they negatively reflect upon their brand, and they have a right to fire her for impacting their business negatively. Pretty sure that’s how it would work where I’m from (Texas) but you can pretty much fire anyone for anything here.

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    TheBurnersMyDestinationKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:30pm

    their mothers work multiple jobs

    Conveniently, these same women also have no jobs and use welfare to buy ridiculous thing. It must be fun, being a racist and getting to make up whatever fairy tale best fits your views for the day!

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      go-go-chocoboTheBurnersMyDestination
      6/21/16 5:44pm

      Schrödinger’s Poor: simultaneously working too many menial jobs to properly raise their terrible children while also lazily living off of welfare.

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationgo-go-chocobo
      6/21/16 5:46pm

      See also: “they shouldn’t have so many children” and “I don't want sex ed being taught in schools!"

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    dcgirl13Kara Brown
    6/21/16 5:37pm

    The thing that scares me the most is the part where she thinks she’s being positive.

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationdcgirl13
      6/21/16 5:44pm

      It's incredible how far detached from reality some people can be, isn't it?

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      PitzerGrimmacedcgirl13
      6/21/16 5:51pm

      Bigots will always come up with new ways to be shitty.

      “Got down on his hands and knees to pick up the scraps that had fallen to the floor. And he did all this with a rhythm like a dancer with a satisfied smile on his face. And I couldn’t take my eyes off him. He’s going to Make it…”

      Is this woman serious. These words feel like they came right out of the Underground TV show (which is really good). This woman is a bigot and I hope her “black friend” keeps sending her eggplant emojis whenever she texts.

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    32_FootstepsKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:31pm

    I’m just going to throw this out there, but I suspect that she’s wrong and that a black anchor would have been in deep shit if they said that.

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      Bebecat32_Footsteps
      6/21/16 5:32pm

      Yes, even Stephen AAAAA Smith gets in trouble with ESPN once in a while for the stupid shit that falls out of his mouth

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      Marzipan in your Pie Plate32_Footsteps
      6/21/16 5:36pm

      I was going to say exactly that. Black people don’t get a racist pass. How much crap do we give Stacey Dash for the idiocy she spews?

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    Apricot Poodle Riding Eeyore Across a RainbowKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:38pm

    Also note that she called the waiter a teen...and then next referred to him as a child. I guess teens are children, but one who is working is likely at least fifteen. It says so much about HER view of him, IMO.

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      cschuApricot Poodle Riding Eeyore Across a Rainbow
      6/21/16 5:43pm

      The way she described him reminds me of my ex-mother in law ( member of the Daughters of the Confederacy) who would talk about how they had black people as servants and were so different from people today because they would always stop and call her “miss” and as she put it: “They were happy to work for a good family.”

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      Apricot Poodle Riding Eeyore Across a Rainbowcschu
      6/21/16 5:45pm

      RIGHT? It was so cringe-worthy.

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    KfishKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:46pm

    If my racist, bigoted, crazy 92 year old grandma had a facebook account, this is what it would look like, only she would complain more about Latinos not knowing any English. :/

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      Rooo sez BISH PLZKfish
      6/21/16 6:06pm

      *smh*

      From a US citizen who aced her AP English exam with honors — please tell grandmama to chingase, ok? Thanks so much.

      :-)

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      KfishRooo sez BISH PLZ
      6/21/16 6:14pm

      Will do. Of course I have also told her that people who speak Spanish in the US almost always speak English, too. I only speak bad English and profanity, so I am extremely impressed by multi-lingual people. Talking to bigots is like yelling underwater. I have had a lot of practice with her.

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    mwittierKara Brown
    6/21/16 5:38pm

    “...with a rhythm like a dancer...”

    Jesus fucking Christ almighty, maker of heaven and nerf. SHUT THE FUCK UP, LADY.

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      maia culpamwittier
      6/21/16 6:17pm

      She is the human embodiment of an Onion article. Like that could not be more stereotypical ‘well-meaning white’ phrasing; maybe she hangs out with Paula Deen on the weekends.

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      mwittiermaia culpa
      6/21/16 6:29pm

      Yes! She could be a highly successful unwitting satirist.

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    deerlady83Kara Brown
    6/21/16 5:44pm

    Two things-she’s injecting her opinion in there and that opinion is racist.

    There are people of all races who have done good and bad things. A white person who does something bad isn’t held up as an example of all white people. A person of color who does bad is held up as an example of all of that group they belong to.

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      Al b suredeerlady83
      6/21/16 6:03pm

      This is so fucking true.

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    CarnyAsadaKara Brown
    6/21/16 6:01pm
    You know what we’re doing? Silently praying that it wasn’t one of us.

    Me, after hearing a guy had been arrested for attempting (lamely) to assassinate Trump: “please don’t be brown please don’t be brown please don’t be brown.”

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      HerRoyalRednessCarnyAsada
      6/21/16 10:39pm

      I’m white and I always think please be white please be white. Because I know if the shooter is brown what follows is going to be a racist shitshow.

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      CarnyAsadaHerRoyalRedness
      6/22/16 1:03am

      Turns out the Trump guy had overstayed his visa (“uh-oh!) BUT was white AND from Britain, so we won’t be hearing much about him, I’m guessing. Also, he didn’t have a gun and didn’t have much of a plan for getting one. I’m not even sure this qualifies as an “assassination attempt,” frankly.

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