WTF?: "Seinfeld"'s Michael 'Kramer' Richards in Weird-o-Rama Onstage Meltdown

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If you call someone a redneck, you're lumping him in with a steretype that is intented to hurt him. Not racist, but cultural. Half the people who call people the N-word in places like NY or LA are talking specifically about selfish, loud, angry, belligerent, macho assholes. From what little we see here, it sounds as if these hecklers have been acting like selfish, loud, angry, belligerent, macho assholes long enough to make him flip out.

I just think that immediate [behavior = identity] judgments are dangerous. In this particular case, there's a good chance that he probably is a racist, just like there was a good chance, upon the revelation of Mark Foley's improprieties, that he was gay. But the kneejerkism makes me uncomfortable.

This is no longer worth arguing, though.

numerous ilxers (some banned, some not banned) to thread...

but Richards IS way over that here, in the end

xpost - Ally OTM again.

don't you think this is more a case of belief than behavior, though?

what sort of heckling would justify telling someone that fifty years ago, he would have been lynched for his comment
Did he say that, or did he say that fifty years ago, he would have been getting lynched? It's not that he's saying "you'd have got lynched for saying that, back when we whites ruled the world".

oh noes what if he uses 'i had to say it so many times because it was improv and i had several minutes left!' as an excuse!

for fuck's sake, people.

"OK guys, I want a suggestion for a racial epiphet you hear everyday..."

-- Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (evi...), November 20th, 2006 1:00 PM. (sexyDancer) (later) (link)

He's only got 32 degrees, but close enough.

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/1815/marsellos1zt1.jpg

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there is nothing equivalent to threatening lynching because there was no time in American history where black Americans were in a position to make a regular practice of lynching white Americans. are you fucking kidding me?

I have no idea what Michael Richards believes.

xpost jesus christ, stet, no one said "blacks can't be racist," they're saying "What Michael Richards said is completely racist and unjustified."

What the fucking hell? Are you brain-damaged or something? Did you watch the video? He said a hell of a lot more than just that!

http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/journal-files/Issues/sep03/casalou.htm

Not that I have any idea what that's supposed to signify.

I agree with this, for the record.

^^^ i love this part

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people were just joking about this right?

http://www.1115.org/archives/jackie.jpg

See, this is what I don't get. Is your experience so limited that you've never seen non-racist people behave this way? I know a guy from Texas who loves black people to death. When that racial transmogrifier was posted on ILX I put his picture through it and sent it to him. He said his dream of finally becoming a black man had come true. Etc. Yet, he will say some of the most racial shit you ever heard right to a black man's face and they will laugh together. He's a blues musician and I'd say 70% of his music is by black artists. But, that doesn't stop him from making chicken jokes while he watches a video of James Brown sweating his ass off.

can someone photoshop neil hamburger in there?

I don't think it's IRRELEVANT, but it's probably not worth making a big deal about.