The Paula Deen Sham

The point was crystal clear. I didn't take up for Deen. I merely stated that a double standard exists. It's not hard to understand. However, the Deen fiasco was blown out of proportion.
 
Paula is being destroyed, while anyone that is a liberal, minority, or democrat, would simply make one short apology and all would be forgiven. People who can't see what injustice is happening to her are beyond help.
 
While I understand the idea of "what white woman over the age of 60 that grew up in the south hasn't," I don't think that's the point. I think it's entirely possible that the Food Network was aware of Paula's "idiosyncrasies" and preferences for a plantation style wedding before all of this became public knowledge.

The Food Network isn't punishing Paula Deen, they made a business decision. That decision was that they would be better off if they didn't carry her show any more. TFN is in the personality business. They sell personalities that cook. They made a decision that now that the Deen comments were made public, her "personality" wasn't going to sell enough airtime to continue to be a viable show. They didn't want to be painted with the brush of racism.

Paula Deen will be fine. More than fine. She's worth 17 million, she has a new book of recipes coming out - that will fly off the shelves - and I'm sure plans are already in the works for another book that covers this made-up "tragedy."

Is there a double standard for what we say about race? Yeah. Absolutely. But just like a gay guy feels like he can call another gay guy a ******, black people feel like they can use the n word with each other. Most of the time, it makes me cringe. I'm a classroom teacher, and I don't allow the n word in my classroom (or ****** for that matter), but that's not gonna stop it from being used.

Also, I'm curious, were you outraged/ did you cry foul when every country music station in the US banned the Dixie Chicks, burned their records, etc...or was that just a business decision too?
 
^^^ I agree with your point. But, I think their point is that what has transpired is a huge overreaction. Perhaps, it serves her right for things that she has said in the past. But, perhaps it is an overreaction. I think your dixie chick analogy is good as they both upset their target market. The slight difference is that the dixie chick's comments at the time were recent while Paula Deen's comments were not.
 
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