Racist "prom-posal"

He sure as heck wouldn’t say that about baseball nowadays.

 

So true.

Although when my son did a "prom proposal" last year, it was only after the girl had agreed to go with him. All the better to stage it — and see what type of candy she likes to put on the sign ...

(or it could have been that potential prom date No. 1 turned him down!)

Glad I went to high school in the late 1980s.

 

I can't imagine doing this blind - to make a big spectacle, and then she says no; or had just been asked an hour before by the starting point guard.

 

I did my real proposal after the girl had already agreed to marry me. We picked out the ring together and all. I suspect that's pretty typical, though.

 

This is true. If you're going for shock humour, you can't be shocked when people are shocked.

 

By the way, this cotton joke is much along the lines of the tweet that destroyed Justine Sacco—the one about how she didn't really have to worry about getting AIDS in Africa, because she's white.

This Is How A Woman's Offensive Tweet Became The World's Top Story

You could argue, and I would argue, that her joke was more a commentary on white privilege than it was racist against blacks.

 

I think we've definitely reached a point where people are unable to, or refuse to, aknowledge the difference between a racial joke and a racist joke.

 

We crossed that Rubicon a long time ago, though.
The content the message, the context of the message and the intent of the message sender are no longer relevant.
The only things that are relevant now are the perceptions and feelings of the message receivers.
We're 20-years-plus down this road as a society.

 

I also want to reiterate that racist statements are considered much worse now than racist actions.
Sterling wasn't kicked out of the NBA for the racist actions he committed as a property owner and landlord. He was kicked out of the NBA for making racist statements.

 

Destroyed might be too strong of a word. Not only did she somehow manage to work her way back into a decent PR gig, she is now back with a subsidiary of the same company that fired her.

Justine Sacco, the PR exec who was fired from IAC for her tweets, has landed back at IAC’s Match Group

 

She was at FanDuel before that. She got back on her feet pretty quickly all things considered.

 

I am glad sacco is back on her feet. Again, not fair.

I did not like, however, the woman who gave the finger to the tomb of the unknown soldier.

I feel that promboy and Sacco tried to make a joke, and it missed it's mark.

The Fuck You to the quiet sign was going for complete shock value.