People don't understand that the new racists don't generally use discriminatory epithets, but instead they label those they hate racists. It's a clever tactic, really. 'Racist' is the most powerful epithet you can use against a White person. No other epithet has as much social power. Paula Deen admitted to using the N-word in her own home after a Black man put a gun to her head when she was working as a bank teller. It didn't matter that she was in a state of shock after almost being murdered, or that this was in the 60's in the South, or that she said it in the privacy of her own home. She was publicly crucified as a racist because she used a word that White people are forbidden to use. She broke the code. She broke the linguistic segregation that is put in place, and she paid the price for it.

This happens all the time for White people. Rick Sanchez made a comment about Jon Stewart's ethnicity, in which he brought up the fact that many of the big Media owners are Jewish. He didn't bring it up out of nowhere-- Jon Stewart was implying that he faced hardship in life because of his Jewishness, and Sanchez mentioned that being Jewish could only make it easier to break into media work. Is it true that most people in media management positions are Jewish? I mean, undoubtedly, it is absolutely true, and this is due to a cultural history of Jews emigrating during and after WWII. Nothing racist was implied in the least. But he broke the segregation of speech. He broke the code. He was fired promptly after making the comment. Silly White guy. Silly honky.

No one really cares, though. It's alarming.

I remember when Jon Stewart was covering the Muslim woman who wasn't given part of her soda can on a plane. It was a tragedy-- at least according to Stewart. How could such unprovoked racism exist, taking the rightful bottle cap away from its owner on a plane? What a travesty. Of course, that same week a Black man attacked a random White woman by slashing her neck just blocks away from where Stewart films. It was a completely unprovoked attack. It was calculated.

Ah, but to say anything would break the segregation. No one is allowed to talk about it. That would be racist, you racist.