Is this a major oops by NBC ?
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 04:18
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Exactly my point! It'd be equally lacking in tact, humor and good taste, but it'd NOT be viewed as 'racist'.
No I ment it depends on what the joke was, so telling a joke about another area or country could be just as racist as the one she did tell.
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Ya can't expect Rappy to realize the reason that jokes that don't contain a racial element aren't racist, but those whioch do contain a racial element CAN be. This is grown up level reasoning, and that's too taxing for the lad.
Note to anyone - Please pity the poor, poor wittle Rappyboy. He's feeling put upon lately, what with all those facts disagreeing with what he believes.
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Revolution just looks so "Hunger Games" in so many ways, plus I get the strong suspicion it will be one of those shows with no resolution, no closure, no real goal or endpoint.
Erik Kripke is running the show, and his prior show, Supernatural, was constructed around a pretty tight 5 year arc, which was roughly planned from the start. Id wager they have at least an idea of where they're going.
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And let's face it - Supernatural should have STAYED on that five-year arc, because it's become unwatchable in the last couple years!
"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero
Its not as good as it was, but I wouldn't call it unwatchable. Still better than any other genre show on. Ill take lesser Supernatural over Once Upon a Time or Grimm in a heartbeat.
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Oh, I'll readily agree to that. I *just* stopped watching Supernatural about 5 eps into this season (the one with Spike and Cordelia in it was fun); I gave up on those other two before they got through their first seasons; I've given Supernatural more than six.
And as far as TV shows that have a "Buffy" kind of vibe to them, this was the closest we're likely to get. But I just couldn't take it anymore; it felt like they were just lost, and had no real idea how to wrap it up (and it looks like they're going to keep coming back, again and again and again, so they may never have to worry about how to finish...)
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Originally posted by m52nickerson:
No I ment it depends on what the joke was, so telling a joke about another area or country could be just as racist as the one she did tell.
But her joke wasn't 'racist', in the strict definition of the word.
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Ya can't expect Rappy to realize the reason that jokes that don't contain a racial element aren't racist, but those whioch do contain a racial element CAN be. This is grown up level reasoning, and that's too taxing for the lad.
And where's the 'racist element' of this joke ?
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But her joke wasn't 'racist', in the strict definition of the word.
It wasn't in one definition of the word, it was in another.
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One more time, I don't see how the " joke " reflected a hatred for anyone , based purely on race.
Bigoted ? Sure. But racial ?
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I'm with Niki, I think it was a coincidence, there was no intended message there, just an oops. The thing is that I'd have never have even noticed and made the connection and I think a good chunk of people also wouldn't have noticed, or would have realized it was a fluke accident.
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