On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:20 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Speaking as someone who has a significant Polish ancestry, this deeply >> disturbs me. >> >> Hack and polack don't even *rhyme* for chrissake. >> > > Who even uses that term anymore? That clip sounds like something out of a > first season Man Men episode. >
Old polacks. My (*very* Polish) wife's grandma would use it all the time, her family still uses it around each other. The best similar example I could come up with is calling someone with German heritage a "kraut": it's long been out of commission in terms of actual usage, it was a slur and could still easily be considered one, and if you just happen to remember hearing it without the backstory, you might drop it thinking you were being cute and funny. > "1a. I asked CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus what the thinking was by CBS > Sports and Turner Sports management not to discipline Catalon for his > comment. "He made a mistake," McManus said. "He realized he made a mistake. > He immediately apologized on air. As soon the game was over, he went and > sought out the player and apologized to him and the coach. Everyone > involved, as far as the principles in the occurrence, including the player > and the guy who made the mistake, agreed it was a mistake and agreed to > move on. And so did we. We moved on and put it behind us." > A broadcaster makes an on-air gaffe, apologizes, and everyone involved accepts it and moves on? The end times are nigh, people. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
