Political correctness, words we can't use
‘Todd and Don Show’ to return, officials say
By Juan Castillo | Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 04:35 PM Yanked off the air in July after co-host Don Pryor repeatedly uttered an ethnic slur, “The Todd and Don Show” will return to KLBJ-AM on Dec. 7, according to a statement released jointly by the station’s management and local Hispanic leaders who met earlier today. The station’s management could not immediately be reached for comment. Spokesman Paul Saldaña said Emmis Austin Radio, the station’s parent company, announced its decision during a meeting with the Hispanic leaders earlier today. According to Saldaña, Emmis said the show will return to the air “with a transformed perspective on community history, expectations and cultural sensitivity.” Saldaña said Emmis also announced a plan for mandatory diversity training for all on-air personalities, producers and station management at all six of its Austin radio stations. He said Emmis assured the leaders that “efforts to better serve the entire Austin community would be ongoing.” Pryor, the son of longtime radio personality Cactus Pryor, repeatedly used a slur to describe illegal immigrants, triggering complaints from listeners and from leaders of Hispanic groups. Emmis Austin canceled the show July 20 under an agreement with local members of the U.S. Hispanic Contractors Association, which canceled plans to boycott Emmis Austin’s six local stations and their advertisers. Scott Gillmore, Emmis Austin Radio vice president and market manager, said then that the decision was made after the station’s ownership and management heard complaints from hundreds of listeners and after it consulted with Hispanic leaders and community members. Pryor and Todd Jeffries each received two-week suspensions without pay. “The Todd and Don Show” had been on the air about nine months before it was canceled. Pryor used the word “wetback” during a discussion on the July 14 show about labels for people who are in the country illegally. The use of the slur “wetback” has a long history in the United States, particularly in Texas, and many Mexican Americans consider it hurtful and offensive. While the use of the slur outraged many local Hispanics, the suspensions and removal of the show also generated complaints from listeners who criticized them as too harsh and as an overreaction to public pressure and political correctness. http://www.austin360.com/blogs/conte...return_hi.html |
I'm out of fashion. I think people should use the term. A pejorative is appropriate for someone who engages in improper or unlawful behavior. I realize this is 180 degrees in the opposite direction of the perspective of folks who get upset when you call someone an illegal immigrant because a person can't be illegal.
I think wetback has utility and connotes a particular type of disdain for people in the country unlawfully. Further, it does not fall into the same objectional category as nigger, spic or ginny because one has no control over his skin color or nationality, however, being an illegal alien is something that requires affirmative steps to accomplish. You're not born into illegal alien status with no control over it. |
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I caught someone about a month ago making a joke about Polish people, and he was Hispanic. I pointed out to him that I was part Polish and that political correctness wouldn't allow me to make the same disparaging remarks about Hispanics, but it seems completely acceptable to do it about Polish people. I also noted to him that I was not offended by what he had said, but just pointing out the double standard. |
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I think words in the categories as mentioned above take on a different meaning when used to offend as opposed to reference. So it matters a little on why someone is using them. Unfortunately we have lawmakers and others wanting to eliminate their' use entirely, even as reference, and that appears a bit of an infringement on the first amendment to me. Not that I condone, support, or use some of these terms and words; I never cared at all for some of them. But I do care a lot for the first amendment. |
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The victims here are not the people who fit the terms, but the people who use the words to show their entirely justified contempt. |
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If anchor babies want to honestly embrace US citizenship and confront the corrupted system that has made them US citizens -- as any US citizen should -- then they should reject their US citizenship and reintroduce themselves as struggling to become naturalized. They should attempt to become US citizens as if they were foreign nationals. |
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The term "anchor baby" is an overused and over broad in its usual application.
My Elena is firstborn in America from Mexican born parents, there would be people over eager to incorrectly apply the term "anchor baby" to her. However, it is her son who is the Aztlanista in the family, and he was educated into it at school. He didn't learn to be a racist from any of his older relatives. You have to place credit where credit is due. |
If you are not a US citizen, then your children born in the US are not US citizens. This is by law, of course, not practice. This is what we should be struggling against. If you are not a citizen and your children born in the US claim US citizenship, then they are "anchor babies".
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We have to disagree.
An "anchor baby" is a child who's purpose is to legitimize illegality. You might be making judgments within a vacuum of information concerning other people who were not of that "persuasion" and erroneously calling into question their Americanism. It's not a "brown and white" slate, there are shades of gray everywhere. By the way, refer to me which law and the background discussion of that law of which you speak which denies citizenship to American born children of non citizens. Verifiable information only. US code, Congressional record, anything else which may legitimately apply. No "everyone has one" opinion. |
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Yes, Tax Burden. |
My Elena was a child from an earlier migration. There was no such thing as welfare, and while her father worked for a multi-century pioneer in exploitation of south of the border labor, they did such things as scour the old time burn dumps for cast off furniture, housewares, and toys that white people tossed for use in their household. They were friggin' poor.
They ate meat once a month. No government entitlements. Lots of rice and beans, the depression in the barrio didn't end in 1941 with WWII and older relatives who were a part of that war, it went through into the 1960's. And, while it didn't apply to everyone from the barrio south of the tracks, there was a general pre 1960 requirement to be back before dark. And get this, no hard feelings, that's just the way things were back then, doesn't apply now. So, when her older brother was sick and in the hospital not too long ago, I made a joke about how he would soon be out and playing soccer, he said that he played football, baseball, and basketball in high school, that soccer was something the Mexicans brought when they came - even though his parents were both Mexican born. Be careful of who and how people with south of the border ancestry are talked about, because it may work against the quest for enforcement of American immigration laws. For what it's worth. |
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