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A Paula Deen employee got the ax after tweeting a racist photo of Deen and her son
Business Insider ^ | July 7, 2015 | MADISON MALONE KIRCHER

Posted on 07/07/2015 7:01:49 PM PDT by napscoordinator

After an insensitive tweet led to the firing of her social media manager, Paula Deen has some explaining to do. Earlier Tuesday, the person running Deen's Twitter account tweeted a photo featuring the culinary celebrity and her son, Bobby Deen, dressed up as the characters Ricky and Lucy Ricardo from the television show "I Love Lucy."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/paula-deens-social-media-manager-fired-for-tweeting-racist-photo-2015-7#ixzz3fGGqfRXH

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: chef; cook; deen; paula; pauladeen
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To: napscoordinator

Wait, a picture of people dressed up as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo is now racist? I don’t want to live here any more.


41 posted on 07/07/2015 8:04:42 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Rio; All

My question as well, what is racist about this picture?


42 posted on 07/07/2015 8:06:02 PM PDT by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one. Muslim = Nazi = Evil)
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To: momtothree

Not the future. The past. The incident & picture were from 2011 - pre-dating her admitting use of the word “nigger”.


43 posted on 07/07/2015 8:11:46 PM PDT by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: Sacajaweau

He definitely got the deal in that relationship but to call him yuk is beyond silly.

It is hard to get equal value when you are that hot AND funny.


44 posted on 07/07/2015 8:13:19 PM PDT by Reaganez
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
The reaction is stupid. People are pathologically offended over anything.

I've long noticed people who really seem to base their very existence on complaining about things they don't like. Amping "don't like" up to "offended" has been easy for them.

45 posted on 07/07/2015 8:16:17 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: JennysCool

These leftards are people who would be offended by the sun rising in the morning...and blame it on George W. Bush.


46 posted on 07/07/2015 8:28:56 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
My gaydar has always gone off about Bobby.

Why? Did he dress up as Lucy ?

47 posted on 07/07/2015 8:31:31 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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48 posted on 07/07/2015 8:35:00 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: napscoordinator

It’s not freaking racist. Give me a break.


49 posted on 07/07/2015 8:36:08 PM PDT by sigzero
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To: JennysCool

i saw somebody call it the “perpetual victim olympics”.

i guess to win the gold, you have to really work at always being offended.


50 posted on 07/07/2015 8:36:21 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust ("To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire)
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To: napscoordinator

He looked more like Boehner than Ricky.


51 posted on 07/07/2015 8:45:02 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: napscoordinator

Pretty sure you are right


52 posted on 07/07/2015 9:06:18 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: onyx

Geeez.

Stupid Paula Deen didn’t even get Lucy’s red hair the correct color!


Yeah, if I remember correctly it was kind of grayish when I was watching her show.


53 posted on 07/07/2015 11:28:01 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: Safetgiver

He looked more like Boehner than Ricky.

He looked more like Rachel Dolezal than either of them.

What happened to her she sure disappeared quick.


54 posted on 07/08/2015 12:17:50 AM PDT by rikkir (Anyone still believe the 8/08 Atlantic cover wasn't 100% accurate?)
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To: napscoordinator

Nothing racist about the picture whatsoever. The common cultural understanding of what is “racist” is now mostly comprised of things that aren’t even bad. This rule that you can dress up and pretend to be someone else so long as you don’t change your skin color for effect is stupid beyond words.


55 posted on 07/08/2015 12:29:05 AM PDT by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: rikkir

Perfect reply to all the offended Paula Deen posters. “Why didn’t you call out Dolezal over her REAL sham of blackface, instead of a rich white woman? I believe you people are all economiciphobes.”


56 posted on 07/08/2015 12:37:22 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: napscoordinator

She reportedly uttered the sacrosanct “N” word about 28 years ago and seems to have recovered from all the flak the over-sensitive emotional cripples could throw her way - they need to keep up the attack and prove that they really need to be put on meds. I recommend Thorazine be given out with EBT cards and other welfare programs.


57 posted on 07/08/2015 3:51:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Rio

What’s racist about it? If that’s racist then so is Lurch, Boehner and every person who spray tans.


58 posted on 07/08/2015 6:59:46 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Rio

This was a comedy, not racist at all.


59 posted on 07/08/2015 7:01:58 AM PDT by dforest
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