[oldbrowser]

I just send a note to Food Network saying good bye.
Their fake political correctness is exactly the same peer pressure that Deen succumbed to back in the day. I wouldn't stand for it then, and I won't stand for it now.

[Gene Eric]

Speech enforcement on this term perpetuates the sense of inferiority it’s meant to redress. It’s a variant on affirmative action, welfare, quotas, pity. It can be a disparaging term, but its censorship is a greater handicap than the potential offense of its expression.

[Burlem]

I wonder if the use of the “N” word 40 years ago is the real reason for her dismissal, maybe it was an excuse.

she may not be the nicest person to be around,

We had a senator in congress that belonged to the KKK, saying something seems much less egregious. Not sure any of us would want to be defined by what we said so many years ago.