Free Kasey

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sjt18 said:
She shouldn't have resigned and then should have sued them into bankruptcy if they fired her unless there is some/any evidence that she has acted as a racist as an adult or in her job duties.
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She'd lose. I'm sure she sought legal counsel first. UT is loaded with attorneys they talk to about stuff like this before they act. At best, she would have gotten a modest settlement which would be wiped out significantly by paying legal fees.
 
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OrangeInKy said:
She'd lose. I'm sure she sought legal counsel first. UT is loaded with attorneys they talk to about stuff like this before they act. At best, she would have gotten a modest settlement which would be wiped out significantly by paying legal fees.
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She wasn't employed by UT, was she?
 
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Finally got to read three tweets she made. Nothing racist about them in the slightest.

You shouldn't call people with mental handicaps "morons," but does calling yourself that term make you an ableist bigot?
 
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Just saw an article in Daily Mail. I'm sorry but those tweets were just the way kids talked 10 years ago. There was no racial bias.

Years ago I sat around the dinner table with 1 HS and 2 MS children having to explain. They didn't understand because that's the way all the kids talked. It was cool. Their friends (all shades of brown) and their music was their experience.

Ultimately I won 'cause I'm dad. Never had any more.

IS THIS REALLY WORTH DESTROYING A CAREER?
 
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AdoptedVOL said:
Just saw an article in Daily Mail. I'm sorry but those tweets were just the way kids talked 10 years ago. There was no racial bias.

Years ago I sat around the dinner table with 1 HS and 2 MS children having to explain. They didn't understand because that's the way all the kids talked. It was cool. Their friends (all shades of brown) and their music was their experience.

Ultimately I won 'cause I'm dad. Never had any more.

IS THIS REALLY WORTH DESTROYING A CAREER?
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EXACTLY!!! Someone who gets it!

Read the story and comments in The Root...an African American-oriented online magazine.

A Sports Reporter Calls out a Racist Tweet and Gets Exposed for Her Own (theroot.com)
 
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AdoptedVOL said:
Just saw an article in Daily Mail. I'm sorry but those tweets were just the way kids talked 10 years ago. There was no racial bias.

Years ago I sat around the dinner table with 1 HS and 2 MS children having to explain. They didn't understand because that's the way all the kids talked. It was cool. Their friends (all shades of brown) and their music was their experience.

Ultimately I won 'cause I'm dad. Never had any more.

IS THIS REALLY WORTH DESTROYING A CAREER?
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My daughter is 32 now, when she was in High School I heard her and a friend use the word, it wasn’t malicious, but I was still shocked. I told her not to ever say that word again or she will be grounded. She said but they say it on the Chappelle show all the time why is that okay? (That’s where she must have heard it, it was a very popular show at the time). I said it doesn’t matter, don’t ever say it, it’s a very bad hurtful word, makes you look and sound ignorant. To this day she sees how people get canceled and appreciates that life lesson.
 
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This is really off topic but I can't help but recall the SNL Word Association skit with Chevy Chase and Richard Prior. Still out on YouTube. That was an abusive equal opportunity skit I must admit gives me a smile ("dead honky"). I miss Prior.
 
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AdoptedVOL said:
Just saw an article in Daily Mail. I'm sorry but those tweets were just the way kids talked 10 years ago. There was no racial bias.

Years ago I sat around the dinner table with 1 HS and 2 MS children having to explain. They didn't understand because that's the way all the kids talked. It was cool. Their friends (all shades of brown) and their music was their experience.

Ultimately I won 'cause I'm dad. Never had any more.

IS THIS REALLY WORTH DESTROYING A CAREER?
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Apparently it was to her. She deleted the original tweet, but left responses up.

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Let me see if I’ve got this right.

Funderburg used questionable language a decade or so ago. Maybe racist, maybe more what you’d call appropriation and a lack of common sense about it. Certainly a lack of sense about wiping it out once she started having to worry about being a public figure and maintaining a public persona. Anyway, she apparently knows the score and resigns.

Meanwhile, Kyrie Irving still has a job after doubling down on defending some anti-Semitic movie. But Steve Nash gets fired.

I’m not sure I fully understand the rules of this world.
 
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ArmchairQB said:
Let me see if I’ve got this right.

Funderburg used questionable language a decade or so ago. Maybe racist, maybe more what you’d call appropriation and a lack of common sense about it. Certainly a lack of sense about wiping it out once she started having to worry about being a public figure and maintaining a public persona. Anyway, she apparently knows the score and resigns.

Meanwhile, Kyrie Irving still has a job after doubling down on defending some anti-Semitic movie. But Steve Nash gets fired.

I’m not sure I fully understand the rules of this world.
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Woke rules of the left!
 
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This has blown up way out of proposition. If I understood her joke right, it would have been kind of funny. I can understand people taking issue with it given the historical association, but one should be able to recognize malice vs. an unintentional faux pas. I tell Shirley often, that these days, people's brains simply don't work.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
This has blown up way out of proposition. If I understood her joke right, it would have been kind of funny. I can understand people taking issue with it given the historical association, but one should be able to recognize malice vs. an unintentional faux pas. I tell Shirley often, that these days, people's brains simply don't work.
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The black face was not her "joke". What I saw in the the article was her calling out the call for black face at KY that resulted in someone digging up some old Twitter posts of hers.

To me, her posts were 100% urban language all the kids were using at that time (and many still do). I don't know her heart then or now so I'm not going to judge but I saw nothing racist in her Tweets ... with exception of the one with "slave". I don't know the context of that tweet.

I'm going out on a limb here but I'll guess if you looked at the text messages of players today (current txt messages), there would be no college football if this were the standard.

Peace and love y'all... really!
 
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knox-townVOL said:
I almost lost my job for posting a FB status during the BLM stuff. I said both sides need to acknowledge where they can do better, pointing fingers only tears our country apart.

Apparently that was racist.
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Any common sense statement that does not support leftest ideology is considered racist. It's the way it is today. Free speech is no longer free. I would not be surprised if the backlash against this crap does not foster more racism than ever.
 
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  • Mr.DuckSauceKalyn Womack
    11/01/22 10:44am
    Shes a white woman, she will survive, if it was a black woman, no one would say a word.
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  • mtheumerKalyn Womack
    11/01/22 10:03am
    Here’s the thing. If you become a “media personality” you need to invest the time in checking your social media history and get in front of anything that would be problematic. The problem is many of these folks say **** in a social circle that accepts it, but doesn’t wash in a large scope.
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  • The Ja Rule of KinjaKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 7:51pm
    If they keep firing every person with a past, how will anyone learn what attrition or a proper model looks like?
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  • bassguitarheroKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 6:45pm
    I think she should get her job back. Even though her posts when she was 18 were stupid, she wasn’t using the hard ‘r,’ she was just trying to be ‘of the culture’ when she wasn’t.
    She’s clearly grown up and thought better of it, and I’m willing to say she should be given a chance for redemption, given that she’s stood up for the right thing and you have to go back 9 years to when she was 18 to catch her slipping.
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  • fair_n_hite_451Kalyn Womack
    10/31/22 3:47pm
    What I want to know is ... for all public figures (or anyone really, but public figures especially), why haven’t they gone back and cleaned up after themselves. It seems relatively easy to delete old Tweets (I don’t use it, but it seems like people delete tweets every day).
    With the approximately 1 zillion examples of someone getting dragged for old stuff that should never have been said, let alone surfaced in today’s world ... why don’t they go back and clean up?
    Either they are too lazy, too blinded by privilege to realize it could happen to them, or they actually still think it’s ok. And none of those is very flattering.
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    • VodkaRocks&aPieceofToastfair_n_hite_451
      11/01/22 3:00pm
      Facebook makes this super easy with the “on this day” feature. I have clicked on that and gone back over a decade of posts I made on a given day and holy **** the cringe was real. No one needs a record of every dumb ass thing they said or did as a teen/college student (or really ever).
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  • WhigglyKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 3:06pm
    Was the Tweet she was “calling out” even racist or just in need of being specifically highlighted as a joke to make sure nobody thought it was actually happening?
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  • cantyallseeKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 2:11pm
    “Cancel culture has made it seem as though people can’t grow out of their ignorant ways.”
    Hmm, so TheRoot is against cancel culture? And how will we know if the person has grown out of “their ignorant ways”?
    “It has also forced people to apologize for actions they didn’t know the implications of.”
    So even at 18 yrs old she didn’t know the implications of throwing the n-word around? Interesting. What if she’d thrown homophobic or anti-trans or antisemitic slurs around, would the writer also be as forgiving, or making excuses for Ms Kasey Funderburg?
    At some point we need to stop folks (especially our kids!) from deliberately and casually using the n-word. No excuses!
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    • GOTPMAcantyallsee
      10/31/22 3:26pm
      is that the point, or is the point sometimes we say **** we shouldn’t have? I said dumb **** before about gays and other races, there just wasn’t twitter around 30 years ago. There are a lot of rap songs from 25 years ago, that could get people in trouble.
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    • jenergy5GOTPMA
      10/31/22 5:30pm
      Why would you say dumb **** about gays or other races if you didn’t mean it, though?
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    • Sassinak11GOTPMA
      11/01/22 12:16am
      And that’s really the issue..
      That many people tend to forget that in the age of the internet, NOTHING is gone forever. So where they could formally say crap and essentially “outgrow”.. not they can’t.. which means they have to be mindful of what’s being said because the past can and will be resurrected.
      I don’t understand why people want to blame “cancel culture”.. there really isn’t thing.. but there is a notion that people can’t just say any old crap and it has no repercussions.. But there always have been repercussions for ones actions.. just now those repercussions are more severe because the visibility of the issue is MUCH larger.. (you could piss off “Bob” and it was an issue between you and Bob (and maybe a few local people).. now every action has the impact of an international event.. which means of course the repercussions are MUCH more severe.
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  • HypestylesKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 1:29pm
    Pretty White girls will always be able to get a better job. I do not feel sorry for her.
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  • AyawisgiKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 1:21pm
    No quarter.
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  • AyawisgiKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 1:21pm
    No quarter.
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  • GizmoKakaKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 1:10pm
    I liked that you included this statement
    Kasey’s swift resignation was certainly an attempt to escape the wrath of media critics. It’s worth considering that someone can redeem themselves from their racist trolling as a teen. Cancel culture has made it seem as though people can’t grow out of their ignorant ways. It has also forced people to apologize for actions they didn’t know the implications of.​
    Because I think to combat the “cancel culture” chorus that frequently trivializes damaging hate speech because of these, we need to show what redemption and personal ethical evolution looks like in real life.
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    • qwedswaGizmoKaka
      10/31/22 1:37pm
      Were her racist tweets actually as a teenager, or was that just a generic statement? I remember a lot of kids in college that came from all white backgrounds that woke up to their own racism and made changes to their lives. That’s one of the things education is for.
      Of course, deleting your racist tweets from your teen years would also be a move in the right direction.
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    • RunsNakedWithScissorsqwedswa
      10/31/22 2:44pm
      Kasey’s currently 26 yrs old, so I’m going to give the benefit of doubt to her posting those during her mid-teen years. Some people forget and outgrow the crap they said or did when they were 16, so her going back and editing Twitter might not have been in her thoughts.
      I can easily recall saying some horrible things while I was playing baseball in high school. Nothing racist mind you [I’d still be walking with a limp from the beating my parents would have given me] but nothing I would want to answer for if an audio tape were to pop up.
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  • mc2isbadKalyn Womack
    10/31/22 12:59pm
    Is there more to it than the three tweets you included?
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"This language is not acceptable in any context."

I'd wager that she has heard "this language" many times from the athletes she covered and didn't bat an eyelash when hearing it.

These "apologies," whether ogfered sincerely or as efforts at damage control to avoid permanent cancellation, never say that no one should ever use the language "in any context." I doubt all these sudden epiphanies being confessed really mean that the language itself is so "offensive" and "hurtful" given the broad popular acceptance of it from some speakers.
 
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AdoptedVOL said:
This is really off topic but I can't help but recall the SNL Word Association skit with Chevy Chase and Richard Prior. Still out on YouTube. That was an abusive equal opportunity skit I must admit gives me a smile ("dead honky"). I miss Prior.
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Just don't ask for any of Pryor's Grammy-winning albums by name (if you have a pale complexion; otherwise, it's all good).

Also don't go around humming Bryan Ferry's "Sl_ve To Love." You can be a fool for love, a sucker for love, or addicted to love, but the S-word is way out of bounds and is always racist.
 
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