--- Dennis <dperrin13 at mediaone.net> wrote:
> > The choice of the word "chinks" was a politically
> safe one for Sarah
> > Silverman, in that if she had used "n-words" in
> the same joke, it
> > would have made the joke more politically
> provocative, given how many
> > Blacks are snared in the racist criminal justice
> system, often facing
> > largely white & well-off juries (though it would
> have generated a
> > larger controversy, since Blacks are a larger &
> better organized
> > minority than Asians).
> >
> > ***** A white woman had been called for jury
> duty but didn't want
> > to serve. "My friend is, like, 'Why don't you
> write something
> > inappropriate on the form, like 'I hate n-words?'"
> the white woman
> > said. But she didn't want people to think she was
> a racist, she
> > said, so "I just filled out the form and I wrote
> 'I love n-words' -
> > and who doesn't?" *****
> >
> > However, I gather Silverman's intention was not at
> all to satirize
> > racism that fuels the war on crimes.
> >
> > Yoshie
>
> Astute and dead on. I think the "n-words" line would
> have been much edgier
> and much better, for exactly the reasons Yoshie
> illustrated. And it would
> have led to a better debate. Again, though, it was
> Silverman's choice, and I
> think she was going with the casual racism of the
> everyday world, and not
> the spirit-crushing, soul-destroying racism Yoshie
> speaks of.
>
> DP
>
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