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Originally Posted by DianeM
Let's be real here. We're all from an era when those words were acceptable. She is is a product of her time and public humiliation because of the past is absurd.
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I cannot judge your upbringing, but in my home there was absolutely no question that the holding of bigoted thoughts or the use of any language which was derogotory toward another race, religion, or nationality was completely unacceptable. Many people, including many posters on this thread, who had more exposure to bigots than did I have managed to overcome their upbringing and see those beliefs as abhorent. If Ms Deen made these statements 30 years ago, that would be 1983. She would have been in her mid-30's and you can be quite sure that all Americans knew that the use of the "N" word in 1983 would be extremely offensive to those who didn't share the same bigoted beliefs.