[From article]
Judged by the outrage, those University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) frat boys who sang a ditty that used the N-Word must certainly have done something particularly egregious. Why else did the university immediately, sans any hearing or due process, expel some of them, close down their SAE chapter while the fraternity’s headquarters launched its own Inquisition to determine if other chapters are likewise guilty of N-Word use? And keep in mind that this occurred on a bus and was perfectly legal since hate speech, absent other factors, is not a standalone offense.
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Why would merely saying a word in private instigate death threats? That nobody was hurt, abused or personally insulted in the making of this sing-a-long only compounds the over-kill.
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This “natural” inclination toward cursing was perfectly illustrated by the rant of Eric Striker, a football player recruited to play at Oklahoma but who changed his mind after the SAE incident. He sent a video explaining his reasons: “Same mother*******s that talk about racism doesn’t exist are the same mother******s shaking our hands, giving us hugs, telling us how you really love us,” Striker said. “F**k you phony-ass, fraud-ass bitches.”
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Now, what makes uttering the N-word by whites so profoundly different than thousands of insults targeting other groups?
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In any case, why is the N-Word harmless when said by fellow blacks but not whites, Asians or Hispanics? What if a black heard the N-Word but was unable to identify the speaker? Is it still toxic? Or what if a white person loudly played an N-Word infused rap song sung by a black? Would this qualify as “hateful”?
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If thinking anti-black thoughts were the precursor to violence, and whites secretly harbored all these racist thoughts, American should be awash in white anti-black violence. But the very opposite is true -- interracial violence is overwhelmingly black on white (also see here).
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Why the rush to ride roughshod over constitutional protections of free speech? Let me suggest that this is all part of the extractive process that drives the racial grievance industry. The underlying principle here is that black misfortunes are white instigated, and if whites could be cured of their pathologies, blacks would thrive.
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In sum, exposing racist white fraternities and their “toxic” speech is the Full Employment Act for the diversity industry.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/profiting_from_the_nword.html
March 17, 2015
Profiting from the N-Word
By Robert Weissberg
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