DoubleTake
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Oh look a microagression.
CNN anchor casually drops racist remark to Spelling Bee winner
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That's one of those things where assuming groups of people are a monolith can get ya in trouble.
WrenchNinja
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The circus acts are here with their hoops
Shadow Puppetry
Member
She put Fresno back on the map and this happens, ugh.
Goose_Se7en
Banned
The perpetually offended is at it again. I'm sure Camerota meant no harm by saying this.
CrocMother
Banned
CNN is trash
NorthAndSouth
Member
Ahh yes, this lady. The one who kept bleating "but Islam and its treatment of women!".
Colour me unsurprised that she can drop casually racist and dumb remarks.
Colour me unsurprised that she can drop casually racist and dumb remarks.
Who was sexually harassed and left when Fox execs told her she wasn't conservative enough to be successful.
Alex Stroud
Banned
Excellent counterargument. You can be the clown!
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Has turned? CNN has been trash for almost 15 years, especially when they hopped on the Fox News Jr. Train. And really, 24/7 news has always been trash because they have so much time to fill.
Mr.Shrugglesã
Banned
Seriously, if it wasn't for all the specials that Bernie does, cnn wouldn't be worth watching.
You are overrating . It's a silly attempt at a joke but nothing too offensive . I'm Indian.
If some white polish origin guy would have been asked about some Slavic language would we all be up in arms .
Seriously all this is getting way out of control .
It was not racist, but a joke that (given the winner) fell very off key. As other have said, Sanskrit has both an intense part of the etymology of the English language as well as being a pop culture meme. However it would be like casually making a statement about Africa, for something that is VERY African, to a black American. No ill intent at all, but that won't stop some jaws from dropping.
WrenchNinja
Member
If your argument is "outrage culture" and ignoring what actually happens in the video, maybe you should join them
Based on just a cursory glance, I'm of two minds about this.
On one hand, I have no reason to believe that the comment was meant as "you're probably more used to speaking Sanskrit than English" rather than "you're probably more used to spelling words that come from ancient languages rather than gibberish tweets". Based on that, I'd be inclined to view this as a totally innocent joke that just came across poorly because she wasn't thinking of who she was talking to.
On the other hand, Sanskrit's a weird language to use for this joke. As I understand it, the majority of English words come from Latin via French, Norse, or from the English language's West Germanic roots. Sanskrit has a relatively tiny footprint. And I'm pretty sure that the Germanic stuff figures much less in the popular view of the language. From what I've seen, native English speakers tend to assume that the language is descended from Latin.
On one hand, I have no reason to believe that the comment was meant as "you're probably more used to speaking Sanskrit than English" rather than "you're probably more used to spelling words that come from ancient languages rather than gibberish tweets". Based on that, I'd be inclined to view this as a totally innocent joke that just came across poorly because she wasn't thinking of who she was talking to.
On the other hand, Sanskrit's a weird language to use for this joke. As I understand it, the majority of English words come from Latin via French, Norse, or from the English language's West Germanic roots. Sanskrit has a relatively tiny footprint. And I'm pretty sure that the Germanic stuff figures much less in the popular view of the language. From what I've seen, native English speakers tend to assume that the language is descended from Latin.
victreeb3l
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That was fucking embarrassing.
I have had tons of arguments with people who should know better about this.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
No joke, Family Guy actually poked fun at this sort of behaviour almost 10 years ago. Right down to the reporter and the Indian kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtkwGxlGT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtkwGxlGT0
So you didn't even watch the video before jumping to outrage culture. Cool.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
In general, you are not well served by "watching" news. The more the incentive to fill airtime or get people angry, the worse this phenomenon is.
In order from dumbest to least dumb
- Opinion shows on cable networks
- General shows on cable networks <-- what this coverage comes from
- Local nightly news
- Nightly news on major broadcast networks
- Public service broadcasting
- Turn off the fucking television and read the news, it's faster anyway and you're already on the computer.
Sanskrit isn't common in India either, so that wouldn't make any sense. It's a dead ancient language. What would make sense is a spelling bee participant being familiar with Sanskrit
Is that even true? I see this was answered below. I guess she was trying to be clever with the form, but obviously defaulting to Sanskrit in particular probably has an element of racial bias.
It's about as common as Latin is in Italian households, and Proto-Celtic is in British ones.
Again, is the bolded true at all? No doubt there are some words of sanskrit origin, but I don't think they are particularly common. A quick google search mostly only brought up a lot of anti-Proto-Indo-European conspiracy blogs.
I think most people that have any conception of languages changing over time are aware that English is Germanic.
CrimsonSquall
Member
ITT: Nobody watches CNN and all claim the anchor is the antichrist
Luckily no one has said anything about the later position at all.
CrimsonSquall
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GAF is my favorite hyperbole comment site tbh
Have you ever actually talked to anyone about this? Particularly those who haven't read up on the histories of languages. I've heard multiple people claim that Latin is the origin of English, never anyone claiming that it's Germanic unless they have a degree in a related subject. Hell, I used to hear a myth that all languages are derived from either Latin and Sanskrit, and that you could put them on a scale with Latin on one side and Sanskrit on the other.
And so you registered to post hyperboles?
Yes....
I would wager that more Americans know that English is Germanic, or at least in some way related closely to German, than know that Sanskrit exists, certainly more than know anything about Sanskrit itself.
CrimsonSquall
Member
Depends on the day and the outrage
Yes, the immediate reaction of a child who hasn't had more than 3 seconds to process the remark completely reduce this to a nothingburger.
Messofanego
Banned
It's already viral. And it's racist. Racist actions aren't always super insulting or violent.
https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/871042165698416640
CrimsonSquall
Member
24hr news channel and u are still surprised in the year 20xx?
She should apologize now and it's much less of a story. Compare this to Bill Maher and it's a non starter. And as a disclaimer, all racism is bad but not treated equallyIt's already viral. And it's racist. Racist actions aren't always super insulting or violent.
https://twitter.com/JeremyMcLellan/status/871042165698416640
excelsiorlef
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Clearly since you peddled in it far more than anyone else in this thread.
CrimsonSquall
Member
Ruh roh
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
It's OK because a kid who was trying to be polite, or didn't hear the comment, or doesn't have the social understanding to spot a bit of casual racism didn't seem offended in a visible and immediate manner.
ElfArmy177
Member
Offended people are funny...
INTENT ISN'T MAGIC
You can contribute to racism without intending to!
I agree it may not have been intentional, but it is still racist.
If you unintentionally step on someone's toes, do you not apologize?
Chocolate_Thunder
Banned
What a fool.
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