Racists trying get her fired
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shareI think she's already fired. Looks like she's getting the official axe tomarrow but she'll probably get her contract payed out so not much of a fireing.
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She's gone. She should never have said what she said. Very stupid of her.
shareShe didn't say anything wrong. Only the PC crowd with nothing better to do but feel outrage! wherever they can, think so. She also said "white-face".
And think: Kelly, being the smart woman she is, would know how ultra-sensitive society has become, and NOT say anything racist that could be used against her by the ones looking for "racism". Yeah, to dress up like Diana Ross doesn't require darkening your skin. That is not using the word "blackface" as an insult or a racist remark, as such. But, of course, saying "black" is racism for some people, you bunch of hypocrites.
"She didn't say anything wrong. Only the PC crowd with nothing better to do but feel outrage! wherever they can, think so. She also said "white-face". "
She didn't say anything to wrong to the ears of those old, white conservatives and younger white supremacists who follow her. To the rest of the educated world, she said something very wrong and offensive.
"And think: Kelly, being the smart woman she is..."
That's a very subjective statement right there. Because she's somewhat attractive and somewhat articulate on your big screen TV, does not make her smart in any capacity.
"...would know how ultra-sensitive society has become, and NOT say anything racist that could be used against her by the ones looking for "racism". "
This is a woman who - just a few years ago - got into plenty of trouble for saying, "Remember kids, Santa Claus is white." This is a woman who's perception of reality is based on her ego, white-privilege and her personal wealth. She has no idea how offensive she comes across from saying what she did, when those three factors shape her world.
I don't think she said anything wrong. As a news pundit, it's her job to discuss different opinions and ideologies. Even if they're unpopular or counter to current shifts in social programming.
"As a news pundit, it's her job to discuss different opinions and ideologies. Even if they're unpopular or counter to current shifts in social programming."
As a morning TV talk host, it's also her job to "know her audience". She could probably get away with this on FOX NEWS and their audience as she has in the past, and others (Laura Ingraham) have in the present. Their audience expects this. She can probably get away with this on OAN, as their audience is even more accepting to these comments than FOX (and that's saying something). This wouldn't fly on BET, whether she's a news pundit or not.
But she was on NBC, and their audience is much more diverse than FOX or OAN - and they do not tolerate this. As an employee of the network, it's her job to know this and know who her audience is (this is true with any job).
''She didn't say anything to wrong to the ears of those old, white conservatives and younger white supremacists who follow her. To the rest of the educated world, she said something very wrong and offensive''.
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I'm neither of those types and not another fan who follows her, just not simpleminded where every movement, look, glance, statement (etc.etc). revolves around politics and.paranoia. I never said she was educated in everything; we're only speaking about this one incident.
'That's a very subjective statement right there. Because she's somewhat attractive and somewhat articulate on your big screen TV, does not make her smart in any capacity.'
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With her being in the business and witnessing countless backlash (like with Roseanne), she's aware of the mind-boggling PC, and the hyperactive need by certain segments of our "progressive" society to cite racism/ sexism/ this-ism, that-ism (many, who make a turn-a-bout when they are in the privacy of their homes), Of course, this witch-hunt behavior is the norm today. Gee, maybe it was a slip of the tongue because she hasn't learned to walk on eggshells yet.
'This is a woman who - just a few years ago - got into plenty of trouble for saying, "Remember kids, Santa Claus is white."'
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We can't dare say that Sleeping Beauty, Tarzan, Jason of Friday the 13th can be white either. I get what you are saying--things can be, but we cannot actually verbalize it.
If this was the 'first time' it's a slip of the tongue. But it's not the first time, as she has made controversial statements in the past during her tenure at FOX NEWS (and got away with it there, since she knew her audience).
In 2013 at FOX: "And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white. Jesus was a white man, too... He was a historical figure, that's a verifiable fact, as is Santa. I just want the kids watching to know that."
Four years later, as she kicked off her NBC morning show, she admitted what she said was 'stupid shit', so one hopes maybe she did become aware of the 'mind boggling PC' , as you refer to it.
"I regret a lot of what I've said. I mean you're going to be on the air several hours a week live television, you're going to say stupid shit. That's just the reality you know, so yeah there's a lot I'd like to go back and say differently," she told an audience at a conference last Fall.
Here it is some twelve months later and she apparently hasn't learned from it, and said more 'stupid shit' undoubtedly based in her wealthy white-privileged egotistical concept of reality. And that was the final blow.
No, you are assuming it's wealthy white-privilege at the root; just as many blue-collar low-earning people would also say such the same "stupid-sh-t". You're hung up on white wealthy privilege for some reason.
share“Many blue-collar low-earning people” do not have a morning television show on NBC. She does. Big difference.
shareYou implied wealthy white- privilege as the inherent entity which you dislike. I'd say she's a symbol to you, more than anything else. You are black and not wealthy/privileged, is that it? Seems that many blacks have a pattern of using their socioeconomic -class as an excuse or something to hold over the society's head.
Yeah, because she's a talk show host and came from a wealthy background (as you say) , she must not know how people live outside of her own neighborhood; that's your assumption and rather absurd. And of course she has an ego. Most people in her position-- celebrities or politicians-- have an ego, white or black. The word "ego" takes on a bad connotation; there is such a thing as a healthy ego. Ego, by definition, does not necessarily mean arrogance.
" You are black and not wealthy/privileged, is that it?"
I'm neither black nor 'not wealthy'. (So after reading that assumption of me, I didn't bother reading the rest of your response as it's based on a falsehood).
Naturally it's a falsehood, since you've already made up your mind. And by all means, dont' read the rest of my last reply, since that might rattle your conclusions. Just be sure to cite Oprah and all the other black journalists (and the entire population) for the same thing as you do the whites--but that would be impossible, since it's a non-entity in your mind.
shareWrong again. It’s a falsehood since you already based your response on a false assumption, as I clearly pointed out. You haven’t mastered comprehension skills yet.
shareI see. And you saying "She didn't say anything to wrong to the ears of those old, white conservatives and younger white supremacists who follow her:, is not equally an (implied) assumption of me? And I didn't assume, I asked you.
Funny, you sound like a wealthy white person who has not been exposed to the real world, and the cold hard truth regarding blacks' crybaby-antics of racism. Interesting.
Nice try.
The real reason was her poor ratings got her show axed.
If her ratings weren't in the toilet, I'm sure the NBC president wouldn't have used the blackface comments to axe her show. While inappropriate, they're hardly groundbreaking for Megyn Kelly's history of insensitive comments.
It's beyond her show, though.
She was already informed that her show was hanging by a thread, and would probably be canceled after November sweeps (which start Monday, October 29) if ratings didn't improve drastically. However, NBC was going to find a new high-profile spot for her within their news division at NBC /MSNBC, which she would've joined by early 2019 and stayed with through the end of 2020 and possibly beyond, when her contract was up for renewal by then.
Instead, they fired her from the network completely - NBC wants no part of association with her at this point. I don't blame them.
I'm not really a fan of hers but I hate to see any innocent person get caught in an SJW trap like this. It is a shame, yes. The SJWs are not going away and they shit on and destroy everything they touch.
shareMaybe she should have never left FOX NEWS ? That was her innocent world, with an audience and an employer which shared her innocent perspective on reality. She could say whatever she wished (and did), as her audience and her employer stood with her.
NBC is a different place for her, and not a 'safe place' like FOX NEWS. Her audience and her employer rightly held her accountable for what she said, and held her to a more professional standard. She failed - "bigly" as T-rump would say.
But now, even FOX NEWS doesn't want her anymore. "We're happy with our current lineup" is what they told reporters when questioned if they were interested in taking her back.
She lad low ratings and was sort of being herded out the door or probably going to be but they had to make a lame excuse to fire her. It's funny how much you have to learn what to say on TV these days. You can say "Back in my day this used to be okay" BUT you have to add, "I don't endorse it." She didn't add that and the PC police took it as racist (even if you never said racist things before) because in their minds, everything is racist except them.
shareShe has a history of saying racist things during her tenure at FOX NEWS. She should have never left that network, since they didn't care what she said on their network.
shareOnly "racist" to the blatantly racist LIEberals who regularly accuse her and anyone remotely conservative of "racism."
You talk a lot about "white privilege," what about blatant black privilege? Examples: Affirmative action quotas and other privileges in education and employment; Black identity and pride is considered a form of empowerment while White identity and pride is considered a form of racism; Media bias with the mass media downplaying or concealing news with negative associations for Blacks.
I could go on and on. Black privilege is very real in our society and many others.
Care to cite some samples? The only one I could recall off the top of my head was she said Santa is white (apparently that's racist now).
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Very true. And the irony about today's over-zealous need to find something wrong, is that society is more screwed-up and unhappy than ever. Their PC police actions are only band-aids.
Almost from the beginning, people were talking about how the others at NBC were ticked off at her contract, how she wasn't worth that much (translation: "Why aren't I getting that much?"), etc. And there was rampant speculation on how long she'd last. With a lot of discontents gunning for you, they'll be looking for a reason to fire her, and they found one. Some people say there's nothing wrong with what she said, and the point that the PC fanatics are ruining Halloween. Some people think she should have "known better."
The Babylon Bee had a good post about zombies protesting costumes that appropriate them: "We're dead and we eat brains. We're not a costume!"
Her ratings proved she wasn't worth that much.
shareHer ratings are not really the point on a board about her being racist, though.
shareBut in a thread about "trying get her fired," I'd say they are. Racism was just the excuse. The Megyn Kelly experiment proved to be a failure quite awhile ago.
shareI'm aware of it possibly being an excuse. But we don't know if she would also be criticized for her comment if her ratings were fine
shareCriticized, sure. Fired, no.
shareI suppose not.
But why not just cancel her show due to low-ratings without an excuse? I'm sure that's been done before with other Tv hosts (regardless of their contract).
Terrible idea. Conan had a contract for the Tonight Show, but his ratings suffered compared to Leno's. NBC kicked out Conan to bring Leno back, and now NBC will always be viewed as the villains in the context of Conan O'Brien. But if Conan had made a semi-racist remark, getting rid of him would've been smooth as silk.
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