Senate Candidate Makes Racist Comment
August 30th, 2006 | by Craig |Nobody has done anything to make me think they’re trying to tomahawk me. They bitch at me, and I bitch at them. But it’s cool.
There goes Burns again, I mean talking about a little Guatemalan guy, and then making the obviously racist reference to “tomahawk.” I mean, sheesh.
What?
It wasn’t Burns?
It was Jon Tester?
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No double standard there, huh?
3 Responses to “Senate Candidate Makes Racist Comment”
By scmason on Aug 31, 2006 | Reply
Nobody has done anything to make me think they’re trying to tomahawk me.
Craig, that is not a ‘racist’ comment. It is using a word borrowed from another culture. Consider swapping the word tomahawk with ax. He didn’t say
Nobody has done anything to make me think they’re trying to make a Mexican out of me.
Racist comments are all about intent and context.
By Craig on Aug 31, 2006 | Reply
What about the “tomahawk chop?”
That seems to be considered racist. What about the intent and context there?
Chief Illini?
The Braves?
The Warriors?
Fact is, there’s a double standard for “racism,” and that’s truly a word that should be filed under “You Keep Using That Word, I Don’t Think It Means What You Think It Means.”
Do I think that Jon Tester is a racist? No.
Do I think that the reaction and coverage would have been totally different had Conrad Burns made the same remark in the same context? Abso-mother-fuckin’-lutely.
By david on Sep 1, 2006 | Reply
Gotta agree with Craig on this one…if Burns had used the term “tomahawk,” he would have been scalped by the media.
Pun intended.