tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post6287317810904341686..comments2023-10-17T08:04:08.714-04:00Comments on The Examined Life: Dr. Laura and the N-Word RantAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04614116686638969278noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-74615322879637934702010-09-12T19:43:24.699-04:002010-09-12T19:43:24.699-04:00Her argument is ridiculous. What I found funny is ...Her argument is ridiculous. What I found funny is that she is stepping down from her show because her First Amendment rights are being taken from her. Hahaha! Crackuh, please!Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05149068921334726430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-44218319626298968712010-08-29T21:32:39.518-04:002010-08-29T21:32:39.518-04:00I don't know who Dr Laura is because I'd b...I don't know who Dr Laura is because I'd be goose stepping up behind to try and beat some sense into her head but she would connect the word goose stepping with some kind of Nazi reference she strikes be as that type and I've found through life never to underestimate peoples ability to say and do foolish things.<br /><br />She isn't getting it and seems to me like she's using it as a way to censor black people in the kind of if you can say why can't I but by attemping to put some intellectual spin on it, it's never ok to use that word to another, even when Chris Rock (one of my faves) visted the UK last year he was not allowed to use the N-word and quite right because black people here don't use that as part of their vernacular with each other.<br /><br />That being said I do understand the spirit in which is meant within the black community(I still don't like it though)as it's not to them a message of hate, which entirely the point that DR Laura is missing.<br /><br />I also find it silly that since you now have a Black President all of a sudden all things that pertain to black people have suddenly become such a wide issue like lets forget what we have done for the last three hundred years and lets put it on the table to discuss but we'll penalise black people for what we have been doing all along, really they need to get a grip failing that keep their big mouths shut.<br /><br />Take care<br /><br />YasminYasminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16891747646091928790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-67522613722526887122010-08-28T08:41:39.317-04:002010-08-28T08:41:39.317-04:00I have never heard/read any of Dr. Laura's gem...I have never heard/read any of Dr. Laura's gems of wisdom and so I won't comment on her. But, as always, I had another 'ah ha!' moment on reading your analysis. Rare that I begin a Saturday morning by becoming enlightened. Many thanks.jack-of-all-thumbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890408896745938386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-59256605746682625552010-08-27T21:52:53.725-04:002010-08-27T21:52:53.725-04:00She should not wait until the end of the year, she...She should not wait until the end of the year, she should be gone now. No explanation is sufficient.Ken Richeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425810816600512504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-69317535979377838212010-08-26T15:20:08.905-04:002010-08-26T15:20:08.905-04:00I wrote a whole post about this--as you cited, tha...I wrote a whole post about this--as you cited, thank you, so I won't repeat my points.<br />I do think many white people are jealous of how black people use language to convey emphasis and intimacy. When a white person with an icicle up her ass like Dr. Laura hears one black guy refer to another as "my ni**a," its not the word itself she wants, but the emotional exchange she is witnessing. She has no idea what its like to have bonded in the face of oppression, to have gotten high together and giggled till you've fallen off the chair, to tell someone "I love you" by calling them a "mothafucka!" Dr. Laura's rant was all about her own sense of inadequacy in the face of people she is convinced she should feel superior to. She sees a Chris Rock or a Wanda Sykes, and the richness and texture of their expression reminds her of her caged humorless mind, always coloring inside the lines with her white crayon. She can't possibly articulate it--she's not even aware of it. But that's what her hostility is all about. She's never had a homie.<br /><br />Btw, I love when black people call white trash "cracka!" But isn't it interesting how straight people never call each other breeder?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17173711110500689117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-76633862702114375602010-08-26T14:09:44.066-04:002010-08-26T14:09:44.066-04:00Dr. LS is no mental health professional of any kin...Dr. LS is no mental health professional of any kind, and her treatment of the caller was downright ABUSIVE. I am not merely referring to her repetition of the ‘N’ word but to the way she refused to validate the concerns of the caller. Trained psychologists do not respond that way. If a caller or client is experiencing real distress, it is abusive to deny a deeply felt emotion and challenge the reality of that person. First and foremost, psychotherapy is SUPPORT therapy. One acknowledges conflicts and concerns and suggests coping strategies. LS belongs to the same club of under-educated, under-trained, over-opinionated charlatans as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and other college dropouts.<br /><br />About the use of the ‘N’ word by comedians and rappers, if the purpose were merely to defuse and neutralize it, I would have nothing to say. However, verbal abuse does not stop with the use of the ‘N’ word. Rappers also use the ‘B’ word and the ‘C’ word which are decidedly offensive and insulting to sisters, who have spoken loudly against the use of these pejoratives. All these words, in my opinion, are examples of a schlock and shock culture run amuck for only one purpose: Pushing standards of taste and decorum further into the wilderness gets attention ... which translates into money!<br /><br />So LS is a former physiologist who studied diabetes in rats. Let me guess. If she discovered a cure for diabetes in rats, then the next logical step is to turn human beings into rats, of which LS is a pioneering exemplar.(O)CT(O)PUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-89813960587695346522010-08-26T13:55:22.403-04:002010-08-26T13:55:22.403-04:00Dr. L has been an embarrassment to my profession f...Dr. L has been an embarrassment to my profession for most of her on-air career. She's probably done more to warn people away from counseling and psychotherapy than all the jokes about it ever told on Comedy Central or HBO. She utterly warped and perverted the clinician's role. <br /><br />Now, she's an embarrassment to America. Great, another one; just what we needed. She's a stupid, stupid...well, I almost used the b-word, but, as a feminist, I try to avoid it.<br /><br />Excellent post, Sheria.Nancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166865250789996825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4516524448870006829.post-18793587556462864442010-08-26T09:05:34.542-04:002010-08-26T09:05:34.542-04:00Sheria,
First of all, Dr. Laura is a damn idiot.
...Sheria,<br />First of all, Dr. Laura is a damn idiot. <br /><br />Secondly, you are correct--white people have no damn business using that word EVER. If a white person addressed one of my black friends with that word, someone would have to hold my indignant white ass back. The offender would get a swift beatdown.<br /><br />Sending love,<br /><br />SBSarcastic Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17116577711704241625noreply@blogger.com