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MEDIA BIGOTRY:
Janette Rodrigues demonstrates the double standard on ethnic slurs with this remark in Jim Romenesko's MediaNews(http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm#HOUSTON): "Unfortunately, we couldn't take off because some banjo-playing yahoo with developmental difficulties called in a bomb threat and the airport was evacuated." Rodrigues is describing a stop at the Jackson, Mississippi airport. Imagine if some WASP reporter had described a bomb threat at the San Antonio airport as coming from some "burrito-eating ..." well, you get the idea.
Slurs against "white trash," "rednecks," etc. are still perfectly acceptable in polite media company, which is exquisitely sensitive about other racial issues. Why, exactly, is that?
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Janette Rodrigues demonstrates the double standard on ethnic slurs with this remark in Jim Romenesko's MediaNews(http://www.poynter.org/medianews/letters.htm#HOUSTON): "Unfortunately, we couldn't take off because some banjo-playing yahoo with developmental difficulties called in a bomb threat and the airport was evacuated." Rodrigues is describing a stop at the Jackson, Mississippi airport. Imagine if some WASP reporter had described a bomb threat at the San Antonio airport as coming from some "burrito-eating ..." well, you get the idea.
Slurs against "white trash," "rednecks," etc. are still perfectly acceptable in polite media company, which is exquisitely sensitive about other racial issues. Why, exactly, is that?
http://instapundit.blogspot.com/
