in both cases, someone said something that could be construed as inflammatory. personally, I find Isaiah's comemnts much more inflammatory than Imus'
The comments Imus made were not made about a black women's basketball team, rather a women's basketball team, not all the players are black. Then sponsors pulled their ads after Sharpton and Jackson made an issue of it and started threatening to boycott (which I don't think would ever work anyway). CBS, NBC and all the sponsors bowed down to what could be construed as terroristic threats. In America, I expect that everyone, within the decency guidelines in place, can speak their minds without fear of retribution. I have seen opinion polls on whether readers think Imus should have lost his job. In everyone, the majority of respondents said he should not have. On 4/16/07, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How is it a double standard? > > The gay community are the ones that needed to speak out about that issue > if > they felt it was warranted under the circumstances. They pursued it, > Isaiah > denied making the statements, he did not do so on nationally syndicated > talk > radio, it was ALLEGED comments made on the set. Not out in public.So the > two > cannot be compared, no matter how hard you try to stretch things. > > The only comparable situation would be if a black, nationally syndicated > talk show host did the same thing to a white women's basketball team. > Has this occurred? > I raised this point before and received no response. > > There are SEVERAL sponsors pulling their advertisements and sponsorship > from > the Imus show in protest. They started doing so as soon as the story > broke, > not weeks later. Are all these companies run by black people? CBS's own > Staff apparently felt offended and they too complained and CBS stated that > this was the reason, more than any other, for the move to take Imus off > the > air. > Are they all black? > > People generally were upset by the comments. > Are you going to say they had no right to be upset? > Or if they are upset at this they are supposed to be upset to the same > degree at every other incident? > Where's the double standard? > > In America is it ok for someone to do something repeatedly and each time > they say sorry and that makes it ok? > Sure you can forgive, but that doesn't absolve the person from facing the > penalties if any for the action in the first place. > Imus was wrong. He apologized, some forgave him...but that does not mean > he > does not have to pay the penalties, if any, for his actions. > > > On 4/16/07, Scott Stroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And what of Isaiah Washington, the black actor who referred to > homosexuals > > as 'faggots'? Why is that OK? Why didn't the Reverends Sharpton and > > Jackson condemn him and demand his job? Why wasn't the black community > > rallied to boycott ABC and the sponsors of 'Grey's Anatomy'. Was it > > because > > the slur was not aimed at blacks, or because a black man uttered it? > > > > Its a double standard. And that is was infuriates me about this issue. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232646 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
