So noted.
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I’d like to expand on this because a post above (that I’m temporarily blind to) pointed out that they were separate instances, not a pattern of one person doing it over and over.
If this was the result of some kind of common phenomenon of mispronunciation, there would be a huge number of different ways it could happen. Where are the people mangling MLK’s first name into his middle name? Or saying “Kunior” (which I would honestly find plausible as a slip-of-the-tongue). For every roll of snake eyes there should be a matching boxcars. Yes, there are lots of news bloopers but find me three clips of someone called Brad Pitt “Brit” by accident.
We get into the same situation as we do with police shooting black kids. In each individual instance there is a chance it wasn’t motivated by racism. But no one could reasonably believe that none of the instances were motivated by racism. So the question is, where’s the line. At what point do we put the right of black people to not be racially attacked ahead of the right of white people to make mistakes?
And so it goes back to which of these two things a person thinks is currently a bigger problem in our society:
- Black people being discriminated against
- White people being accused of being racist unfairly
Somehow a whole lot of people think it’s (2). And then we have to hear from the people who will tell us that by prioritizing fixing (1) over (2) we actually contribute to (1) because literally everything is counter-intuitive.
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That’s exactly my point; 3 separate individuals, who all happened to be weathermen, did this on 3 separate occasions.
The first incident happened years ago, and nothing was done; it barely made a blip in the media and no one lost their jobs.
The 2nd time was just a week or two ago, and now we have this 3rd incident.
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That’s well put.
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