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Originally Posted by =X=
Are you guys done? Man what a bunch of whining babies. "Mommy why does he get to make racial slurs and we don't! Waah it's not fair"
If anything this should show this joker shouldn't be taken seriously and his work boycotted for such statements.
But to cry because one culture can't make such a racial slur, shows ignorance, immaturity and cowardice. If one is truly above racism then one should argue how wrong the person is for such a statement instead of crying about why one cannot be just a racist.
What he said was straight out wrong, no justification for that. And I like the way Colbert handled the issue, he promptly ended the interview. I can't stand this guy and his racist view but I have no desire to reciprocate his lowly stature
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It isn't whining - it's topic drift. I don't really care whether someone is white, black, red or yellow (Is that even *close* to what this whole skin-color thing is about?) when what really matters in any interpersonal relations is whether the people involved can (or cannot) find common ground.
What I find interesting in your comments is the easy willingness to hurl charges of immaturity, ignorance and cowardice. Say what???
That Sherman Alexie cannot find anything to like about e-books is a prime example of his aspirations to Luddism. That Alexie cannot understand that creating a book-oriented version of 'Buy Local, Eat Local' would only serve to reduce his admittedly small market demonstrates his own ignorance. (Does anyone think that a 'Buy only local authors' works' would increase his market share?)
Derek