CNN apologises and bans conservative commentator after racist remark made on air. - eviltoast
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    Later, Girdusky retaliated in a post on X, saying: “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”

    Ah yes, once again, when they get caught out being shitbags, “iT wAs JuSt A jOkE!!!”

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    By ‘conservative commentator’ they mean former writer for Richard Spencer, well known um… yeah, fucking Nazi.

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    It wasn’t just racist, it was a threat.

    He said to Hasan that he hoped his pager didn’t go off.

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      Avoiding the obvious issue here that this is a terrorist threat based on a terrorist attack by an US backed terrorist state that got endorsed and cherished for its “sophisticated” terror attack instead of condemning the terror attack as being a despicable act of terror.

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    Of all the people to make such a sick comment to, and try to be slick about it, he said that shit to Mehdi Hasan. The sharpest journalist and interviewer of our time.

    Never should have had that Nazi fuck on in the first place.

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    People who want to split hairs on the term racist give away their bigotry they’re trying to defend. Theres a few in the comments. He’s a bigited asshole of some form for sure. But when you expend so much energy nitpicking “aha, but not racist, specifically.” Yeah, that also makes YOU an asshole too.

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    We’ve reached a point where, whenever I see someone called a racist, I assume it’s a false accusation - and after reading the article, my suspicion is usually confirmed. The term has been so overused that it’s lost much of its meaning. What he said was needlessly personal and inflammatory, but I don’t see the racism that so many others here seem to.

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      Would he have mentioned a beeper if the recipient was a white Christian? It hasn’t lost any of it’s meaning it’s just that some people are incapable or unwilling to recognize it unless it’s backed by a nazi symbol, white hoods, or overt calls for racial violence. Your inability to recognize reality does not mean reality ceases to exist.

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        Would he have mentioned a beeper if the recipient was a white Christian?

        Ofcourse not, but I don’t see how that implies racism.

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          Ofcourse not, but I don’t see how that implies racism.

          Ah, so if I go around saying that Japanese people ‘smell of raw fish BECAUSE they are Japanese AND eat dirty raw fish’, I am not being racist, even though I wouldn’t say that to a white person.

          How ‘contrarian’ of you, as in ‘contrary to not being ridiculous’.

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      Is it not exactly the other way around? I see so many actual racists that they don’t even feel ashamed anymore. Of course, I call much more people racist because there are way more openly racist people! Stop being racist and then you don’t get called a racist by the public.

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        I see so many actual racists that they don’t even feel ashamed anymore.

        The fact there are still people trying to push the 2015 “not all Republican voters are racist” angle is sad. Can we just accept that reality has hit, and that we all know, and just drop the pretence?

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      “needlessly personal” hmm. I wonder what he was referring to that made it so personal. Hmmmmmmmmm. Was it perhaps his race?

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      We’ve reached a point where, whenever I see someone called a racist, I assume it’s a false accusation

      How brave! You support not being able to question the motives of those in power to be aggressive to those who have less!

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        He may very well be motivated by racism. I don’t know him so I don’t have an opinion on the matter. My comment is about this specific thing he said where I don’t detect any obvious signs of racism.

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    On Monday’s prime time show, after Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan stated that he supports Palestinians, conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky responded, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”

    The remark is offensive, but how is it racist? The implication was that Hasan’s ideology is similar to that of Hezbollah, which isn’t a race.

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        Worse still, Hasan isn’t Arab at all. He was born in the UK to Indian parents.

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        I think that’s quite a stretch. Girdusky’s comment is clearly a response specifically to Hasan’s expression of support for Palestinians. What’s the connection between “all supporters of Palestinians are terrorists” and being an Arab?