He was acknowledging race issues are part of running a large corporation today, and that has changed in their business, bc there was a time you could literally say the n word maliciously and nothing would come of it. It’s inappropriate for him to draw the comparison in the context of being annoyed by the new reality of his job, it’s outrageous to actually use the full word, but what he said isn’t racist. He has paid a big price for his poor judgement, but pretending like he’s lamenting that the colonel got to use the word and he doesn’t is just stupid.
When you start calling things racist when they aren’t, you create an environment where the accusation starts to lose meaning.
I have 9 hours of Jordan Peterson videos I'd like you to watch so you can understand the brilliance and nuance of this argument
I doubt the PR firm walks away from that contract if that was the context and what he said is racist.
I think the real problem was addressed. But yea I think it’s a problem when people are no longer even able to distinguish between talking about racism and language with racist intent.
They would and they did. The guy has proven to be a disaster that can’t handle the responsibilities required for his position.
You believe non-racists drop hard Rs in corporate meetings or that there's a non-racist context in which that can happen? You actually believe that?
Sure. People display poor judgement in those settings all the time. He was trying to make a point with emphasis and he made a fatal error in judgement. If you think anyone capable of even uttering the word is an automatic racist then we will just have to disagree. This has come up in college classroom settings before, and profs that are obviously not racist at all have lost their job for using the word. In many of those cases they did so in the context of letting their students feel its full weight, but got hammered for it anyways. I don’t agree with that.
He proved that before they were brought on, what they did not know is that he uses the N-word on corporate conference calls. White knight it all you want but that was racist.
What’s the major difference? The papa johns guy was illustrating that the colonel was racist. In doing so he decided to drop a hard R bc that’s what he said the colonel used to do without consequence. It was both tone deaf and ridiculously stupid. That doesn’t mean it was racist.
People who think being called racist is anywhere near the same level as the actual racism are the worst.
So he was educating the PR firm that they hired to work on avoiding looking like a bigot? If the N-word is not racist to you than what is?
You either aren’t even reading my posts or you just have a low level of comprehension. People using the N word with racist intent is obviously racist “to me”. People using it to make a point about how they aren’t racist or to add an element of shock to a point they’re trying to make aren’t racist, they’re just stupid.
So you’re getting the “he was using it to make a point” from his statement? And again what was the point of using it? He was not using it so the PR firm can feel the full effect of the word like an educator would use it in your example, so what’s the purpose?
Who knows, but I’d guess to drive home the fact that the colonel was actually racist, like he didn’t want to clean up the word to remind the people he was talking to that the colonel would use that word in that manner all the time. He stupidly thought they would attribute the hard R to the colonel and not him, and he paid the price for that stupidity. But he didn’t drop a hard R with racist intent on a corporate call like you’re claiming.
Prob best, as a white guy, to just take the n word out of your vocabulary if you don't want to seem racist. Otherwise you're basically making a "they use it so why can't I" argument
So a company walked away from a contract and future revenue for the hell of it? And I’ll ask again you’re basing the context off what Papa John said?
The report literally says he complained that the Colonel could use the word and not face any consequences.
Yes in the context of his corporate responsibilities, not in the context of having the ability to use the word.
When you woke up this morning did you ever imagine that you'd bend over backwards to defend someone dropping hard Rs by the end of the day?
Read what I posted. I’m in full agreement with his dismissal. And you don’t have to bend over backwards to see he wasn’t being racist in his comments. Really you have to bend over backwards to act like he was.
PR team actually on the call: This is egregiously offensive and we are turning away your money You, not on the call: I fully understand his intentions and they were pure
This is where we are as a country and if you refuse to believe that I hope you either figure out that you suck as a human fix it or JY's couch is real.
If you're ever bored, read Colonel Sanders Wikipedia entry. The guy lived one of the most absurd lives ever. In the 30s he was running a gas station and got In a fucking wild west shootout with the neighboring gas station owner after Colonel repainted a road sign directing traffic to his gas station. His partner died in the incident and the rival owner went away to prison, eliminating his competition.
Didn’t Dave Thomas basically turn KFC into the brand/franchise that it is today? I know he started the whole advertising of Colonel Sanders.
Colonel also had a short lived career as a lawyer which ended after he got into a courtroom brawl with his own client.