An Open Letter to All Rosie O’Donnells
February 28th, 2007
Many thanks to Charles County Café for calling to our attention: An Open Letter to All Rosie O’Donnells
Perhaps take this opportunity to go this website and check out many of the other great posts…
The Charles County Café also gave credit to “Posted by Tony Penny in Entertainment News, Cultural & Race.”
Charles County Café introduced the YouTube video by saying, “Amazing video…”
I could not agree more. This video is powerful stuff.
The video was loaded on February 22nd, 2007 and the remarks by the creator of the video are just as good at the video…[1] I have posted them below in a footnote because true to form, many of the comments on the YouTube site are truly offensive and I cannot recommend that anyone go to the site – at least to the comment section... I have no clue as to why a site as sophisticated as YouTube allows offensive language. Wouldn’t you think that a site this technologically advanced could screen certain words in the comment section?
Of course one of the lessons we can see reinforced by way of Ms. O’Donnell’s lack of apology is that being a liberal means that you never have to say that you are sorry. I have no quarrel with Ms. O’Donnell or that she made a mistake – that’s simply human. Her personal lifestyle orientation is of no material matter to me, I really don’t care- - it is none of my business. It is her lack of taking personal responsibility and apologizing that has exacerbated the offensiveness of her behavior.
An Open Letter to All Rosie O’Donnells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJCkHu3trKc
A video of the offensive incident the “Open Letter” is referring to can be found here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSuZz3gWuE
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February 28th, 2007
Many thanks to Charles County Café for calling to our attention: An Open Letter to All Rosie O’Donnells
Perhaps take this opportunity to go this website and check out many of the other great posts…
The Charles County Café also gave credit to “Posted by Tony Penny in Entertainment News, Cultural & Race.”
Charles County Café introduced the YouTube video by saying, “Amazing video…”
I could not agree more. This video is powerful stuff.
The video was loaded on February 22nd, 2007 and the remarks by the creator of the video are just as good at the video…[1] I have posted them below in a footnote because true to form, many of the comments on the YouTube site are truly offensive and I cannot recommend that anyone go to the site – at least to the comment section... I have no clue as to why a site as sophisticated as YouTube allows offensive language. Wouldn’t you think that a site this technologically advanced could screen certain words in the comment section?
Of course one of the lessons we can see reinforced by way of Ms. O’Donnell’s lack of apology is that being a liberal means that you never have to say that you are sorry. I have no quarrel with Ms. O’Donnell or that she made a mistake – that’s simply human. Her personal lifestyle orientation is of no material matter to me, I really don’t care- - it is none of my business. It is her lack of taking personal responsibility and apologizing that has exacerbated the offensiveness of her behavior.
An Open Letter to All Rosie O’Donnells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJCkHu3trKc
A video of the offensive incident the “Open Letter” is referring to can be found here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnSuZz3gWuE
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[1] UPDATE: rosie has given a truly heartfelt response to my work in her blog.after a brief overview of some comments, here's my reply:1) regardless how ya'll felt about the video, i truly appreciate all of you taking the time to provide your honest opinions of it. i believethis can help address where we're really at andimprove everyone communicating with one another2) i understand that rosie was joking. i am actually addressing her defensive reaction upon being told why, "ching chong," might beinappropriate or offensive. 3) i do not hate rosie. this situation is merely a way to frame the discussion of people beingopen to learn from one another, admitting thatthey might be ignorant about some things. iactually believe the sentiment in the piece applies to all groups. hence, "to all..."4) i am currently under the impression that theterms, "queer community," "plus-size," and,"lesbian," are all politcally correct. however,i will research the validity of that belief.5) i am not threatening that asians will punishall the non-asians in the future. i am implyingthat the population of the world is predomi-nantly asian, and that just because in one context she does not interact with asians, doesn't mean that a context will not occur inwhich she will have asians in her life.6) woody fu produced this. ryan ling edited it.thank you to tinnie chow 4 everything.
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