re: #156 FemNaziBitch

Imagine you do not know the context, and are not a Colbert viewer and being totally ignorant of the background … .insert the n-word for the Ching-Chong, Ding-Dong and tell me how you would react?

This would have been me when I read the tweet.

I know you just left, so I’ll leave this here anyway and hopefully you’ll see it when you get back.

An initial reaction similar to that is understandable, if one has no context to go off of. I wouldn’t fault an initial reaction like that.

Where we break with reasonable is when, even after learning a little bit about context, etc., there’s no modulation in the response. None. Added to that, we then get a GG-type reaction to any criticism at all, with added racial commentary. From someone who should have known at least some of the context in the beginning.

She’s welcome to her feelings on this, but I don’t necessarily have to watch her milk those feelings for maximum attention for her (without, you know, ever mentioning the actual cause that drove the segment on Colbert in the first place).

In other words, I’m criticizing her subsequent choices of action, not her initial feelings. Being young only goes so far as an excuse (and with me, I admit, that’s not far at all - but I’m young-ish too).