Freedom of Consequences
I listen to the Opie and Anthony Show from time-to-time. Actually, I usually catch it most every day of the week. I ride around a lot and it's funny. Jim Norton and Opie are sensible enough, and Louis CK pops in and he's pretty much a genius.
Yet on any given day I will switch the show because the other host, Anthony, is prone to go on nonsensical rants that get under my skin. He'll pepper his comments with a lot of 'they's' and 'them people', especially when he is speaking about blacks or Hispanics.
Then he'll laugh and mention that he's joking, but the more you listen, the more you understand that a lot of what he thinks is sort of out of whack.
And let him say it, I suppose. I can turn the channel, and I normally do when he goes off. His Obama black rants are particularly galling.
You can hate the policies and procedures, but to do black voices and pepper it with hate and it is a bit transparent.
Yet again, he can say it. He will mention the freedom of speech a lot as he battles back on this.
What he forgets is the freedom of consequences part.
The story goes that on Tuesday he was walking in Times Square just taking photographs of New York life. Yet one of the photos he snapped was of a leggy, beautiful woman walking in front of him. It's a nice photo, actually (he's taken it down or I'd post it).
Yet it's a little weird.
Snapping photos of women as they walk around?
Without asking them?
It seems stalkerish.
He then snapped a photo of a black woman who was also similarly shaped. Evidently she didn't like it. She went after the camera and a scuffle ensued. She was screaming. He was screaming and there may have been punches thrown...by her...he says.
Whatevs.
The scene was busted up and he went home to his mansion, as did she, to her not-a-mansion, I imagine.
Anthony, a famous guy with a high-paying gig, then went on Twitter and posted rant after rant after rant.
The same sort of things he does on his show.
He called her a 'savage animal.' He threw around his 'them' and 'those people'.
And his employer fired him.
I've actually had fun reading a whole bunch of the comments.
People are defending him. People are defending her.
I think it goes like this:
He shouldn't have snapped her photo. She shouldn't have over-reacted. He shouldn't have continued the rant on Twitter.
Not that he couldn't have...but he shouldn't have.
He's free to say what he wants.
And his employer can fire him for whatever they want.
Maybe he wasn't being racist, but he was being an idiot.
If they don't want an idiot on the airwaves they don't have to have one.
That simple.
Our behavior should be driven by the consequences in some respects. I don't know if he's truly racist, but now he's unemployed.
And he probably should be.
Yet on any given day I will switch the show because the other host, Anthony, is prone to go on nonsensical rants that get under my skin. He'll pepper his comments with a lot of 'they's' and 'them people', especially when he is speaking about blacks or Hispanics.
Then he'll laugh and mention that he's joking, but the more you listen, the more you understand that a lot of what he thinks is sort of out of whack.
And let him say it, I suppose. I can turn the channel, and I normally do when he goes off. His Obama black rants are particularly galling.
You can hate the policies and procedures, but to do black voices and pepper it with hate and it is a bit transparent.
Yet again, he can say it. He will mention the freedom of speech a lot as he battles back on this.
What he forgets is the freedom of consequences part.
The story goes that on Tuesday he was walking in Times Square just taking photographs of New York life. Yet one of the photos he snapped was of a leggy, beautiful woman walking in front of him. It's a nice photo, actually (he's taken it down or I'd post it).
Yet it's a little weird.
Snapping photos of women as they walk around?
Without asking them?
It seems stalkerish.
He then snapped a photo of a black woman who was also similarly shaped. Evidently she didn't like it. She went after the camera and a scuffle ensued. She was screaming. He was screaming and there may have been punches thrown...by her...he says.
Whatevs.
The scene was busted up and he went home to his mansion, as did she, to her not-a-mansion, I imagine.
Anthony, a famous guy with a high-paying gig, then went on Twitter and posted rant after rant after rant.
The same sort of things he does on his show.
He called her a 'savage animal.' He threw around his 'them' and 'those people'.
And his employer fired him.
I've actually had fun reading a whole bunch of the comments.
People are defending him. People are defending her.
I think it goes like this:
He shouldn't have snapped her photo. She shouldn't have over-reacted. He shouldn't have continued the rant on Twitter.
Not that he couldn't have...but he shouldn't have.
He's free to say what he wants.
And his employer can fire him for whatever they want.
Maybe he wasn't being racist, but he was being an idiot.
If they don't want an idiot on the airwaves they don't have to have one.
That simple.
Our behavior should be driven by the consequences in some respects. I don't know if he's truly racist, but now he's unemployed.
And he probably should be.
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