{"id":20701,"date":"2014-09-26T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2014-09-26T11:17:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:17:21","slug":"update-the-daily-show-airs-segment-on-racists-upset-about-looking-like-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20701","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: The Daily Show Airs Segment On Racists Upset About Looking Like Racists"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is to update an article from September 20 wherein the Daily Show interviewed some Redskins fans who later objected to being portrayed as the racists that they are. Last night the segment in question ran with commentary by Jon Stewart on the dispute. What follows is an excerpt from the original article and the video from the Daily Show.<\/p>\n

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The setup for the segment involved four Redskins fans who the Post reports “eagerly signed up, most of them knowing that they might be mocked in their interview with correspondent Jason Jones.”<\/em> The problem arose when they were surprised by a group of Native Americans who confronted them regarding their support for a term that is widely viewed as derogatory.<\/p>\n

The Post describes one of the team’s fans as so upset that “she left in tears and felt so threatened that she later called the police.”<\/em> Seriously? This woman felt threatened by peaceful civil rights activists engaging her in conversation with cameras rolling for a comedy show? The police, of course declined to take any action since there was no real threat and no laws were broken. But the fact that she felt compelled to report this act of felonious funning as a crime speaks to her own guilty conscience.<\/p>\n

The fans complaining about how the segment unfolded were fairly open about what troubled them. They did not seem to regret their support for the team name or their own offensive comments. In fact, the Post noted that “All four fans said they still would have gone on the show if the producers had told them in advance that there would be a debate.”<\/em> What they objected to was that they were allegedly not told that they would have to face some of the people they were maligning. One fan said that he would not have worn his Redskins jacket had he known there would be Native Americans there (Isn’t that considerate of him?)<\/p>\n

In other words, they were perfectly happy to use insulting slurs against Native Americans so long as there weren’t any around to hear them. It’s not unlike racists who routinely use the N-word, except when there are African-Americans in the vicinity. It’s the same reason that the KKK wear hoods to conceal their identity. Bigots know that their views are repulsive and insulting, so they take pains to keep from expressing them in the company of those to whom their hate is directed.<\/p>\n

Read the whole article here.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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