Radio Idiot Don Imus was fired for his racial remarks.
Ok, this sounds good; people held responsible for thier actions and their racist words.
But why only him, and why not until now?
Shouldn't he have been fired directly after those remarks, did his employers have to wait until they were threatened? or until the sponsors started pulling their money?
And why wasn't he fired years ago after many racist statements about others?
The claim that this firing is the right thing to do is BS.
Why isn't every post-911 journalist, reporter, shock-jock, pundit, news anchor, TV host, and so on fired, since almost every single person with an audience has made inflamitory, derogatory, racist, stereotypically bold statements about Muslims and or Arabs since 911. They should all have been fired, or are Muslims and Arabs not due the same respect and dignity as other human beings?
The problem is, Imus could call me a terrorist or any thing else he like and not one person would call for his job. If he says "nappy-headed hos" he gets fired. Both are bad, but being called a ho may not hurt you, stereotyping Arabs and Muslims makes them targets.
You'd think that this double-standard is bad enough.
Then the thought of this being a racist country that uses money as a moral guide sounds a bigger alarm. I am under the belief that not one person would defend what's right if the price was too high.
So, why have there not been any firings after much worse remarks aimed at Arabs and Muslims? There have been arrests, firings, deportations and violence towards Arabs and Muslims as a direct result of some of these comments, and not one media member has been fired. Why is this? Is it because the sponsors believe in the same aniti-Arab and Muslim agenda as people like Bill O'Rielly, Don Imus, Howard Stern, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and so on? Or are they the ones who dictate what should be said?
Either way the issue of racism in this country cannot be solved with one firing and a diversity session, especially when the biggest target is left unprotected.
6 comments:
I ll tell why..There is so much bad vibes on Arabs and Muslims today (By the media and news) that probably transcended any propaganda on a culture/religion in the world's history....
It is another subject, but I look also at our own religion and I see so much conflicts. We really can't define clearly what is our religion all about...Thus, we have been taken advantage of. I think we have our own share to fix and define our religion as it is meant to be which I believe a religion of complete surrender to the divine (thus the name) and complete peace..
I ll tell you why (typing too fast :S
Mone, certainly we do have issues with people highjacking our faith, yet we shouldn't fall into the trap of being appologetic and excuse others' attacks on our faith. There is no excuse for the attacks. Everyone understands that of the 1.5billion there are more than a few bad apples, however, the attacks are aimed at us all and we would all suffer. Islam is about peace, that's a fact, any diversion is not my personal burden, it is society's as a whole.
Yes of course not, and certainly there is limits to remarks and all but we shouldn't go on defending and defending as the only strategy. I think we need to show the world the peaceful side of our culture in a big and definitive way thru the media, news, movies and such which have all been hijacked by people who are engraving the picture of Islam as a violent ruthless religion.
I think we almost reached the stage that we take it seriously to put extra efforts to elevate this picture. Writers should write, artists should sing and dancers should dance on the peaceful rhythms of Islam.
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