RE: Steve Martin forced to apologize for 'racist' tweet.

Wasn't he born a poor black child? He oughtta get a mulligan.

Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:

Wasn't he born a poor black child? He oughtta get a mulligan.

Well done, sir.

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

jeffrey d. boomhauer wrote:

except if you tell me I have a small penis, I'm not gonna threaten to sue your black as$ for 'hate speech', get Je$$ie Jack$on to boycot your company, and go on Oprah to cry about what a victim I am...

Typical black American is such a pus$y today..

LMAO, let's drop you off in Harlem and we will see who the pu$$y is.

And to the guy saying racist only means thinking one race is superior, wrong. Look it up.

dropping me off in Harlem would just prove my point. I'd eventually be assaulted by a gang of armed thugs. Chances of 1 black dude wanting to go toe to toe would be slim though.

Better to be a pus$y and attack in a thug-pack than to go in solo and get jacked by one white dude..

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

[quote]explain yoself wrote:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/racist

Discrimination or prejudice based on race. Thinking all blacks enjoy fried chicken is a prejudice, thinking all blacks can't spell or spell strangely is prejudiced. Not all do that. You listed facts, those can't count. However on your third point if you see a black man and say he's good at basketball based on nothing but his skin color that is a prejudiced and is a racist thought, even though it is a positive one.

This is not discrimination or prejudice based on race. As someone pointed out it is culture. Saying Cajuns have a funny accent isn't racist, it's cultural.

Observing that an African American named Lasonia would not spell it lasagna is not racism.

And why aren't the Italians offended?

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

lkajsdflkasjdflkasjdlkfsad wrote:

Funny how almost every black comedian bashes whites as part of their act.

Meanwhile Steve has to apologize for very mild humor.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2528172/Steve-Martin-apologises-racist-tweet-outcry-fans.html

I equate this to Sergio saying he'd serve Tiger Woods fried chicken at a dinner. Very mildly racist but not worth the outrage it generated.

Not even close. Martin's comment may not even have been racist; Sergio's was something out of the 1950s

There's nothing in there that would possibly offend an Italian, given that the tweet did nothing but name an Italian food. Are you really too dense to see the difference? I'm sure Italians would be irritated if he made some mobster joke.

That said, you have to realize there's a group of hosers on Twitter/tumblr/etc. who do nothing but search for things to be offended by. Their hobby is "organizing" people into harassing so-called racists. Another fun thing they do is say extremely racist things against white people, then defend themselves by saying "you can't be racist against white people". This is an actual belief that many people have, not an exaggeration.

Martin's only mistake was apologizing for it. What he said was nothing compared to something that someone like Rob Schneider would say and he sure as heck wouldn't apologize nor would anyone expect him to. This is a big story because of the deletion and apology.

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

jeffrey d. boomhauer wrote:

except if you tell me I have a small penis, I'm not gonna threaten to sue your black as$ for 'hate speech', get Je$$ie Jack$on to boycot your company, and go on Oprah to cry about what a victim I am...

Typical black American is such a pus$y today..

LMAO, let's drop you off in Harlem and we will see who the pu$$y is.

And to the guy saying racist only means thinking one race is superior, wrong. Look it up.

Oh yeah Harlem. Real rough area, have you been there in the last 10 years clown?

Keep thinking every white person is scared of blacks you racist piece of sh!t. We get it you have a chip on your shoulder and have an irrational animosity towards the white race when in reality if your direct ancestors didn't sell you into slavery you would probably be living in a third world crap hole worried more about contracting aids and wondering where your next meal is coming from rather than trolling a website and white penises.

Ho Hum wrote:

Another fun thing they do is say extremely racist things against white people, then defend themselves by saying "you can't be racist against white people". This is an actual belief that many people have, not an exaggeration.

I can verify this.

This was taught as a fact in a women's & gender studies class I was forced to take in college. "White people cannot be the victims of racism". We also learned that heterosexual white men were the root of all social problems. If I disagreed with any of that then I was told I simply couldn't understand because I was white and/or a male. Classic.

I'm surprised they haven't started rioting yet!

LMAO, let's drop one of those coons off in my woods and we'll see who the pu$$y is.

Sure is nice of you white people for serving as self-appointed arbiters of what is, and is not, racially offensive.

chewbacca wrote:

Sure is nice of you white people for serving as self-appointed arbiters of what is, and is not, racially offensive.

"you white people."

Grozny wrote:

So who exactly "forced" him to apologize?

+1 this. Steve Martin apologized for saying something he afterward realized was offensive to some people. Good for him. Now how about an apology for lying in the thread title?

Typical LRC. I read the entire thread and there's not a single good joke (including the tweet by Steve).

Don't you actually admit your and THE racism with this comment?

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

LMAO, let's drop you off in Harlem and we will see who the pu$$y is..

White people tend to accept now but you just admitted that blacks don't....

Is this racist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65QeXNGYgIw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Ho Hum wrote:

There's nothing in there that would possibly offend an Italian, given that the tweet did nothing but name an Italian food. Are you really too dense to see the difference? I'm sure Italians would be irritated if he made some mobster joke.

That said, you have to realize there's a group of hosers on Twitter/tumblr/etc. who do nothing but search for things to be offended by. Their hobby is "organizing" people into harassing so-called racists. Another fun thing they do is say extremely racist things against white people, then defend themselves by saying "you can't be racist against white people". This is an actual belief that many people have, not an exaggeration.

There was no mention of Italian food in the question tweeted to Steve. Go back and read the tweets.

I completely agree with your second paragraph.

Steve is a class act and did not and does not intend to offend anyone with his jokes. He tweeted another apology / explanation since the media made a bigger deal of the situation by CHANGING THE WORDING of his Tweet to make it sound more offensive than the original.

Go to stevemartin.com to read his apology. He is a classy guy.