Lilith wrote:I love how people keep finding smaller and smaller angles to be slightly irritated and defensive about instead of just dropping a subject when they've been proven wrong.
What have I been proven wrong about? The company did nothing wrong no matter how I hate what they did, but private citizens should not be able to record conversations like that without the person being recorded having full knowledge.
phattonez wrote:What have I been proven wrong about? The company did nothing wrong no matter how I hate what they did, but private citizens should not be able to record conversations like that without the person being recorded having full knowledge.
With the exception of the law thing, at which no conclusion has been proven, we were debating opinion, which can not in any way be proven wrong. No one was proven wrong about anything.
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The decision to take him off the air wasn't completely personal.
From a business perspective, ratings mean everything. It is a celebrity's responsibility to keep embarrassments such as this away from the media. If they don't, then it will affect the ratings of their television show.
Now imagine yourself (as hard as this might be for some of you) as the president of A&E and you had to decide whether or not to spend several million dollars green lighting another season of Dog the Bounty Hunter after just becoming aware that the media is up in a frenzy reporting another Kramer moment revolving around the star of your show.
Take into account the majority public opinion regarding the incident (which is not in his favor), the fact that ratings were already slipping to begin with, and ask yourself this....
Would it really be a wise business decision to keep him on the air?
Would ratings go up after he's now a media targeted celebrity racist?
The answer is simple. No, they wouldn't.
Another season of Dog the Bounty Hunter would see a sharp decline in viewers (people don't watch racists on television, regardless if they're not being racist on the show) and would have cost the network a lot of money.
They're cutting his show and all ties to him to avoid further embarrassment, while maintaining that they're a responsible and family friendly network.
Anarchy_Balsac wrote:This unsubstantiated presupposition is erroneous.
Since you never provided it. I haven't censored the word in question - deal with it.
Duane "Dog" Chapman: I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word nigger sometimes here. I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some fucking nigger heard us say nigger and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine. Our career is over! I'm not taking that chance at all! Never in life! Never! Never! If Lyssa [Dog's daughter] was dating a nigger, we would all say 'fuck you!' And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ya da da... it's not that they're black, it's none of that. It's that we use the word nigger. We don't mean you fucking scum nigger without a soul. We don't mean that shit. But America would think we mean that. And we're not taking a chance on losing everything we got over a racial slur because our son goes with a girl like that. I can't do that Tucker. You can't expect Gary, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids to [garbled] because 'I'm in love for 7 months' - fuck that! So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that shit. I got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I got that girl saying she's gonna wear a recorder...Tucker Chapman: I don't even know what to say.
Honestly, don't we have more pressing issues then a man who tracks down criminals using a formerly offensive word to describe a black person?
Political correctness is the worst.
The Dog wrote:We don't mean you fucking scum nigger without a soul. We don't mean that shit. But America would think we mean that.
^^Not at all. I don't think that he's really racist, more like he just likes the sound of the word. Doesn't make it right, but still.
Darth Marsden wrote:I'm not saying he's a perfect person, but does he really deserve all the flack he's getting?
My thing is, I think he's pretending not to be racist when he is. I may not be right, and I won't say that I am, but don't you think telling his son who to marry, just because of her race is an indication of racism? Even if he's truly worried about his image, that's still him trying to dictate his son's bed habits just because of selfish reasons which isn't much better. I personally hate his guts either way.
I like black women myself, and if a person told me not to get involved with a girl just because she's black, I'd probably beat the shit out of him, family or not.
^^Look at EXACTLY what he said.
"So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life."
He never said anything about him not marrying her; he just said that he can't bring her by his work because she would be offended.
phattonez wrote:^^Look at EXACTLY what he said."So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life."
He never said anything about him not marrying her; he just said that he can't bring her by his work because she would be offended.
I understand your point, I'll concede this.