Let me state up front, I love D.L. Hughley … always have. He’s genuinely funny.
He can also be raw (close your ears if you can’t take the MF-word). Most of all he’s authentic, and I believe this is a man with a good heart.
He was one of the few people during the Imus debacle a couple of years ago who was honest about what had happened.
When the country got caught up in its faux outrage because Imus uttered senseless, unkind, gratuitous comments about the women’s basketball team from Rutger’s at 6:30 one morning, D.L. was there, essentially saying, “It was a joke! Can’t you all grow up?”
This video is a response to those who wanted him to apologize about the his Rutger’s joke on the Jay Leno show. What does this have to do with Dr. Laura. Everything!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIxQYqCcLTw&NR=1[/youtube]
I’m in agreement with D.L. People seem to be most upset because Dr. Laura used the word 11 times, as if there’s a quota. Again, I’m in agreement with D.L. Free speech has a zero sum quotient. Period! You believe in it or you don’t. “Ya, buts” aren’t allowed. Don’t know what a “ya but” is? “Ya, I meant it here, but I didn’t mean it there!”
The unintended consequences of PC babble or hyphenated dope speech are profound. Using hyphenated non words to replace a word that offends some people, gives the offending word more power.
Instead of erasing the offending word from our consciousness using the silly ass substitution implants it. Why? Because stopping to replace an offending word with a hyphenated non word takes extra time … and thought … ensuring the offending word never goes away!
Using hyphenated non words is akin to carrying around the skeleton/dead carcass of an animal for 100’s of years … always dragging that sucker behind. Why?
To show the horror of a particular act or circumstance? Or perhaps to use as a tool … a tool to show how you became a victim of something that never personally happened to you. Ya, that’s it! My, what a good tool to have on one’s arsenal of why I am where I am in life. We all know how victim card must go hand and hand with the racism card … right?
Evil is as evil does. Prohibiting free speech, even ugly hateful speech in a free society is evil. There are no “ya, buts” about it!
