Megyn Kelly - Black Face Halloween Comments

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Bitek

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Why the fvck is NBC paying Megyn Kelly? The only interviews she's done are of Putin.


I honestly don't understand WTF they were thinking when they hired her.

This is also a big part of the public beating she is getting from the brass.

She was paid big money to come over from Fox, but she has been mostly failing and creating controversies rather than ratings.

She will always be viewed with suspicion by some NBC viewers due to her time at Fox and her history of charged comments. Let's not forget her "Santa and Jesus are white" episode.

She had a Sunday program like you mention that was quickly shutdown after she choose two softball interviews to Alex Jones and Putin.

Her persona hasn't worked well in the morning slot, even with the massive push by the network to make her a thing.

Her most notable moments have been her sticking her foot in her mouth with tone deaf and ignorant ass comments.

This was just the most recent one.

Not only was it stoopid, it gives the brass a perfect excuse to shove her out the window for cause rather than having to admit hiring her in the first place was a dumbass idea.
 

fskimospy

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I can voice that opinion since the Dem plantation has indoctrinated many people beyond reason. Did you see the video I posted earlier of the white guy getting harassed and attacked for having dreads? You think she should be fired for daring to suggest she didn't think blackface wasn't that big of a deal when it was respectfully done for Halloween? And you wonder why you are called snowflakes?

The guy who was deeply offended by a woman telling her kid that you shouldn't always follow the examples set in fairy tales wants the rest of you to know you're easily offended snowflakes.
 

Bitek

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This whole fiasco is just another example of the fascist do-not-deviate-from-the-hive-mind-thinking of the left. One cannot even have an opinion that is not in line with their totalitarian views. This is an artificially made issue, the liberal politically correct machine is in full motion.

You're even worse at social commentary than you are at market analysis.
 

SlowSpyder

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The guy who was deeply offended by a woman telling her kid that you shouldn't always follow the examples set in fairy tales wants the rest of you to know you're easily offended snowflakes.

How do you think I was offended? I was amused by the left's over reaction, again.
 

UglyCasanova

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Isn't this the same woman who argued like Jesus, Santa is white. She argued for the skin color of a fictional character?


I mean that happens from the left too. Scarlet Johansson got grilled for playing an Asian character in Ghost in the Shell. The Rock got criticized for an upcoming John henry movie. Can’t remember the one but a straight guy played a gay character recently and hat was an issue.
 

fskimospy

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I think the christian right over reacts too. You are just like them with the war on Christmas bs. Now you get it.

Trump is such a snowflake then:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-war-on-christmas-july_us_5b6124dae4b0fd5c73d43c01

“Remember, I said, it’s awfully early to be thinking this, but I always think it. Remember the attack on Merry Christmas? They’re not attacking it anymore. Everyone’s happy to say ‘Merry Christmas,’ right? Merry Christmas! That was under siege. You’d have these big department stores that say ‘happy holidays.’ They say where’s the ‘Merry Christmas?’ Now they’re all putting up ‘Merry Christmas’ again. And that’s because only because of our campaign.”

Looks like it's time to #walkaway.
 

Bitek

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Kelly is out at NBC.

She better hope Fox is hiring else the only gig she'll land is over at RT
 

HomerJS

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I mean that happens from the left too. Scarlet Johansson got grilled for playing an Asian character in Ghost in the Shell. The Rock got criticized for an upcoming John henry movie. Can’t remember the one but a straight guy played a gay character recently and hat was an issue.
Not familiar with these stories but like I've said many times, context is key.

Robert Downey Jr. was not criticized for his role in Tropic Thunder. Sometimes Hollywood is guilty of cultural appropriation. Go back and read the story of an old 70s TV series, Kung Fu. White guy David Carradine got the starring role when Bruce Lee would have been the ideal choice not only as a person/actor but he wrote the damned thing.
 
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I don't see this as choosing anything for anyone, but rather sharing our history and our perspective. That's called being inclusive. It grants insight into a past where people didn't see offense. As Americans, through sharing our mutual, but potentially conflicting stories and histories, we might treat each other better after having shared those experiences.

Instead she gets chased out of town by an angry mob. HOW DARE YOU participate?!

The Democrat response seems highly regressive to me.

So she is just sharing her racism with them? That way they can learn more about what its like to be racist against them?
 

Commodus

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I can voice that opinion since the Dem plantation has indoctrinated many people beyond reason. Did you see the video I posted earlier of the white guy getting harassed and attacked for having dreads? You think she should be fired for daring to suggest she didn't think blackface wasn't that big of a deal when it was respectfully done for Halloween? And you wonder why you are called snowflakes?

I don't think you should harass a white guy for having dreadlocks; there is a degree of cultural appropriation there, but there's a nicer way to do it. But that doesn't let blackface apologists like you off the hook.

Blackface like that is not respectful, even if it's meant well. It's like arguing that an Indians fan is being respectful by wearing a native headdress to a game. Sorry, but just because you don't mean to disrespect a culture doesn't mean you aren't doing it.
 
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So now we have gotten to the whole 'why isn't there a white history month' part of this discussion?

Black people dressing up as white people is not associated with a long-running history of racism and racist depictions of white people. Come on people, how hard is this to understand?

EDIT: For another good comparison try discerning why it was more of a problem to call Obama a monkey than to call GWB one.

But...but..what is this is just the start of a long-running history of blacks demeaning poor whitey?

I fear i just gave the GOP a talking point and something to fear. Damnit. Sorry guys.
 
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fskimospy

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So she is just sharing her racism with them? That way they can learn more about what its like to be racist again them?

Also if he thinks people back then didn't see offense he's woefully ignorant. Of course people saw offense back then, it's just they were black so nobody cared.
 
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I actually feel bad for Megyn. I mean, if she was in fact fired as is reported she has to carry out the tens of millions left in her contract in one of those little legal filing boxes you get when you get canned.

That can't be easy.
 

UNCjigga

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Always Sunny did a blackface bit, they just did so with the acknowledgement that it’s super racist.

This is because they aren’t ignorant morons like Kelly.

Key word there is "ignorant".

Are "ignorant" and "racist" just the same thing now? I would hope not.

I don't think ignorance is a fireable offense. I also don't agree with NBC using this gaffe as an excuse to get rid of Kelly (which is what some think they're doing due to ratings or due to power plays from Today Show staff.)
 

UglyCasanova

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Also if he thinks people back then didn't see offense he's woefully ignorant. Of course people saw offense back then, it's just they were black so nobody cared.


Nah nobody cared because nobody cared. Halloween was a time to wear offensive stuff. It didn’t have to be sanitized. The point was to scare, offend, push boundaries that you otherwise wouldn’t. People didn’t get up in arms over the dumbest stuff back then either (well the Christian Right did over pagans etc so that just made everyone want to do it more).
 

brycejones

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Kelly herself said it didn't seem offensive in decades past. You think she's lying? What is so incredulous when one is speaking of the 70s and 80s? I'm going to take a guess that you don't know / cannot speak for her experience. Thus the concept of providing that insight. To paraphrase the video shown: "like, gosh, we didn't know".

And the response to innocently sharing one's own personal, and different, experience is vitriol? Ridiculous.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s and knew then that blackface was racist and offensive and that was growing up in overwhelmingly white areas.
 

HomerJS

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I doubt Hitler or a Klansman were acceptable to most people at any time unless you came up with a clever hook.

One of Princess Diana's kid caught hell for showing up at a costume party dressed as a Nazi.
 

brycejones

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Nah nobody cared because nobody cared. Halloween was a time to wear offensive stuff. It didn’t have to be sanitized. The point was to scare, offend, push boundaries that you otherwise wouldn’t. People didn’t get up in arms over the dumbest stuff back then either (well the Christian Right did over pagans etc so that just made everyone want to do it more).

I shouldn't be shocked by your posts at this point, but wow.