Is this racism?

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Lebatard's views on race tend to be pretty on point from what I've read.

The radio bit described in the OP sounds pretty damn ignorant.

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Not sure if it is racist but it sure as hell is funny and entertaining.

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You find it entertaining?

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Lebatard's views on race tend to be pretty on point from what I've read.

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No. Even the other people on his own radio station bitch about him. He goes off on some racial tangent about every other day. Anytime there's a fight between two players, a player and a coach, a player and an official, anyone of two races, he goes off regardless of whether he even knows anything about the situation. He's a complete jackass. The media needs to stop stirring up this crap.

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Not sure if it is racist but it sure as hell is funny and entertaining.

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You find it entertaining?

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That was a typo. A bad one too.

Not sure if it is racist but it sure as hell isn't funny or entertaining

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Lebatard's views on race tend to be pretty on point from what I've read.

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No. Even the other people on his own radio station bitch about him. He goes off on some racial tangent about every other day. Anytime there's a fight between two players, a player and a coach, a player and an official, anyone of two races, he goes off regardless of whether he even knows anything about the situation. He's a complete jackass. The media needs to stop stirring up this crap.

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The resonse I have to this question just delves into an argument that's a little too sophisticated for OOT in general and you specifically.

All I'll say is that race matters, and it and the biases that are attached to it have a much greater affect that people who don't have to deal with them probably realize.

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All I'll say is that race matters, and it and the biases that are attached to it have a much greater affect that people who don't have to deal with them probably realize.

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I'm not disagreeing with this. However, this doesn't mean the media should go out of its way to antagonize people by creating tension where there isn't any. There are enough real racial issues without this crap.

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It's insensitive to other people's feelings. it's rude. it's not funny. whether it's racist or not apparently depends on whichever working definition the rainbow coalition that is OOT decides on for that day.
I'd say yes, it is.

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She responded with "not a lot". He then asked why, did they have a problem with white people or what?

She said no, they didn't, and was pretty uncomfortable. The guy then asked if she liked white people, or had any issues with white people, etc. Really uncomfortable radio.

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You find it entertaining?

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Radio like this exposes people's ugliness. If you think about it, there is absolutely no reason she should be uncomfortable with these questions. Puttting weak minded people on the spot is always amusing and highly entertaining. Exposing their closed minded attitudes is a valuable public service imo.

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Not sure if it is racist but it sure as hell is funny and entertaining.

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You find it entertaining?

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That was a typo. A bad one too.

Not sure if it is racist but it sure as hell isn't funny or entertaining

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LOL. Now that's funny (scroll up)

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I'm assuming you're talking about the woman in the barbershop, so how do you make the leap from
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Radio like this exposes people's ugliness. If you think about it, there is absolutely no reason she should be uncomfortable with these questions.

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Puttting weak minded people on the spot is always amusing and highly entertaining. Exposing their closed minded attitudes is a valuable public service imo.

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what about this makes the woman "weak minded"? what about this should be her fault? If anything, it exposes the hosts as insensitive assholes. given the context of the questioning, the forum in which the questions were asked and the probable situation the woman was in (living day to day in a historically racially charged neighborhood), there's no reason to believe she should have been comfortable with it at all.