Laid off: Newspapers drop office cartoon 'Dilbert' over creator's racial remarks

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  1. FatBack

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    You did no such thing.

    You just made a cheap allegation based on your mistaken opinion
     
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  2. Esau

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    exactly my friend.
     
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    edna kawabata Well-Known Member

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    Yet another dodge?
    Okay let's say "A good amount of them are extremely rude arrogant and entitled. And if they don't immediately get their way they have no problem being racist." isn't racist at all. It's not at all a negative racial bias. Now you accused me of racism. Bring it
     
  4. FatBack

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    It's not racist because it's true. Remember I work customer service. More than just a rare one here and there are very quick to show their ass if they don't get their way.

    That's simply a fact and it's not my fault that that's the way so many of them tend to be.
     
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    :blushes: ~ Downey Jr. should have stayed Black. He looks better and almost got an Award. animated-smileys-animals-046.gif
    robert-downey-jr-tropic-thunder-blackface-1200.jpg
     
  6. FreshAir

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    it's a lot like hiring someone that is not disabled to play a disabled part or not one race to play another for a part, one gender playing another... etc...

    even if he did good, some will wonder, why not just hire the real deal

    very few can pull it off tastefully, Soul Man was another movie that did this
     
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    Isn't customer service where people call in to complain? And you could tell which ones were Black? I think your sample is skewed and not in line with reality. You need to get out more.
    Now, what about me, the accused. Still waiting for the presentation of the evidence or is this another case of a FOS right-winger.
     
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    I'm guessing you've never seen Tropic Thunder to ask a question like that.
     
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    I have not, so fill me in, what did you think of it
     
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    The point was you said:

    In the movie Robert Downey Jr is playing a white Australian playing an American black GI for a movie. If they had gotten a black guy to play the part, the bit wouldn't have worked.
     
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    same with Soul Man, which I did watch, and would not of worked had they hired a black man

    like I said, few can pull this off tastefully, I think soul man did, not sure about Tropic Thunder as have not seen it - but from the picture, he looked the part, was it done tastefully?
     
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    It's been years since I've seen the movie, but the issue of whether it was done "tastefully" or not never occurred to me.
     
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    then it must have been done "tastefully" if you did not watch it and think, that was in bad taste
     
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    Indeed but it's not for a white person to define whether it is inoffensive, is it. Smh.
     
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    Unbelievable.
     
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    And yet it seems you are doing just that....
     
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    And ppl wonder why isay the things ido
     
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    Never ceases to amaze me
     
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    And these two are lefty liberals and very moderate.
     
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    English, learn it
     
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    I believe in equality, a white or black person can tell if it's in good taste
     
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    radical
    Liberalism
     

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