The article i chose is about screenwriter, Terry Rossio who apologized for using a racial slur during a twitter discussion. The tweet is deleted, but it said "My heart goes out to all the parents of vaccine damaged children, who have to not only endure the sadness of their loss, but also the vitriol of ill-informed and insensitive people (such as those here). Anti-Vax is equivalent to calling someone a nigger and makes as little sense." The writer of films, Shrek and aladdin found himself coming under fire for the comment. In a later tweet he says that "It was a mistake" and he's "sorry". He went on to say that he now knows that the word held no place in the conversation and was not needed.
I do agree with the fact that he shouldn't have used the word and he could have used another analogy for his argument or comment. It was very unnecessary and uncalled for. He also was being a hypocrite because he was saying on how you shouldn't call people niggers, but he did it anyway. This relates to history because of the many other times that people, famous or related in politics, used this word when it wasn't needed. For example, Colonial Sanders called people niggers said Schnatter, in July 2018. And also when Trump was accused for using the word in August 10th 2018.
Racial slurs are so commonly used in our world, and there's a lot of judgement surrounding who is "allowed" to say what. This is a very interesting topic to dive into, especially since the president has denied that there is any racial prejudice in the United States (Corner-store Caroline who?)
ReplyDeleteI like the connection you made to Colonial Sanders. It's similar and relevant.
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