Another Freudian Slip

[glaswegian]

Golf Channel suspended anchor Kelly Tilghman for two weeks on Wednesday for saying last week that young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should "lynch him in a back alley."




http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321527,00.html


I guess this person missed the whole Michael Richards and Don Imus thing eh? I always find it odd that when some white folks want to make certain comments about people of colour, or direct anger towards a person of colour ( anything but white ), they drag the colour issue into it

If you want to call a person an ar$e, idiot or whatever, just call them that no matter what they look like

[goJays]

how does this relate to Freud?

[danfromwaterloo]

Golf Channel suspended anchor Kelly Tilghman for two weeks on Wednesday for saying last week that young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should "lynch him in a back alley."




http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,321527,00.html


I guess this person missed the whole Michael Richards and Don Imus thing eh? I always find it odd that when some white folks want to make certain comments about people of colour, or direct anger towards a person of colour ( anything but white ), they drag the colour issue into it

If you want to call a person an ar$e, idiot or whatever, just call them that no matter what they look like

I honestly don't think he intended it as a racist joke. It was an unfortunate choice of words - it's a regular expression that does get used. The fact that Tiger is black is what makes it bad.

It's kinda like saying "I have an employee that's my slave at work". If the employee is white, it's an expression. If the employee is black, it's racist.

[Bazooka Joe]

I honestly don't think he intended it as a racist joke. It was an unfortunate choice of words - it's a regular expression that does get used. The fact that Tiger is black is what makes it bad.

It's kinda like saying "I have an employee that's my slave at work". If the employee is white, it's an expression. If the employee is black, it's racist.

+1

I work at a place where the drafting/design team call themselves the "(Auto)cad monkeys". I think that practice would stop if any of them were black - as then all of a sudden it would be racist.

Here's a good joke on that vein.

A tourist walked into a pet shop and was looking at the animals on display. While he was there, another customer walked in and said to the shopkeeper, "I'll have an AutoCAD monkey please." The shopkeeper nodded, went over to a cage at the side of the shop and took out a monkey. He fitted a collar and leash, handed it to the customer, saying, "That'll be $5000." The customer paid and walked out with his monkey.

Startled, the tourist went over to the shopkeeper and said, "That was a very expensive monkey. Most of them are only few hundred dollars. Why did that one cost so much?"

The Shopkeeper answered, "Ah, that monkey can draw in AutoCAD - very fast, clear layouts, no mistakes, well worth the money."

The tourist looked at a monkey in another cage. "That one's even more expensive! $10,000! What does it do?"

"Oh, that one's a Design monkey; it can design systems, layout projects, mark-up drawings, write specifications, some even calculate. All the really useful stuff," said the shopkeeper.

The tourist looked around for a little longer and saw a third monkey in its own cage. The price tag around its neck read $50,000. He gasped to the shopkeeper, "That one costs more than all the others put together! What on earth does it do?"

The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's an Engineer."

[gnunn]

The shopkeeper replied, "Well, I haven't actually seen it do anything, but it says it's an Engineer."

As an electrical engineer I found that joke offensive

Seriously though that was hilarious and I have saved it for future reference to mail to some other engineers I know.

Anyways back to the OP, while the comment was out of line one thing that concerns me is societies total lack of tolerance of foot in mouth disease. Let's face it we've all said something stupid or inappropriate at one point or another, given the nature of the comment it was obviously not intended as a racist comment yet all of the gadflies are out calling for her to be fired. It would be nice if society could accept that sometimes people get verbal diarrhea and stop analyzing it as some hidden window to their true feelings.

Having said that, her half hearted apology didn't help matters. If you say something stupid like that the best thing to do is offer the sincere and full mea culpa before moving on.

[ipxxx]

how does this relate to Freud?

+1 ... little curious as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

A Freudian slip, or parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind.

[branat]

No, just sexist. If she were Imus, she would've been fired by now.

[glaswegian]

Have you 2 heard the phrase "A figure of speech" before???

+1 ... little curious as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

[glaswegian]

Like I said, as a visible minority, I don't understand why some "white folks" feel the need to attach colour to a comment or an insult. Just to give you an example....Am from London England, born and bred, growing up with every nationality you can think of, and had more friends outside my own race, and dated outside it too.

I never once when someone got on my nerves attached their colour to my proposed insult to them. If I was going to call them a w4nker, prat, tw1t or whatever, I did just that, with no colour attached to that insult.

Why on earth can't some people do the same????? I know why, because they were raised to be xenophobes

As an electrical engineer I found that joke offensive

Seriously though that was hilarious and I have saved it for future reference to mail to some other engineers I know.

Anyways back to the OP, while the comment was out of line one thing that concerns me is societies total lack of tolerance of foot in mouth disease. Let's face it we've all said something stupid or inappropriate at one point or another, given the nature of the comment it was obviously not intended as a racist comment yet all of the gadflies are out calling for her to be fired. It would be nice if society could accept that sometimes people get verbal diarrhea and stop analyzing it as some hidden window to their true feelings.

Having said that, her half hearted apology didn't help matters. If you say something stupid like that the best thing to do is offer the sincere and full mea culpa before moving on.

[glaswegian]

Do you even know who Freud is without doing a google search? Don't bother, I just educated you for free

Like the definition above, it can be said that she ( the anchor ) said what she said with an unconscious mind. Get in now?

how does this relate to Freud?

[ratface]

Have you 2 heard the phrase "A figure of speech" before???

I'd say they have... that's why they commented that you chose the wrong figure of speech to describe this situation.
"slip of the tongue" "mountain out of a molehill" might have been more appropriate choices.

[nolimtzel]

did anybody note how al sharpton was on scene within hours.

[glaswegian]

I chose that because I felt it fitted the article. Perhaps you should read the entire thing to understand it. Amazing how you speak onbehalf of these 2 eh, are they your brothers/friends/aquaintances?

Bollocks

I'd say they have... that's why they commented that you chose the wrong figure of speech to describe this situation.
"slip of the tongue" "mountain out of a molehill" might have been more appropriate choices.

[glaswegian]

I'll be the 1st to tell you that Al Sharpton is a w4nker, muppet and a buffoon. The oik is as important as t*ts on a bull

did anybody note how al sharpton was on scene within hours.

[Rehan]

glaswegian, it's okay to be wrong sometimes. It's definitely not a Freudian slip.

I think danfromwaterloo got it bang on -- it was a poor choice of words that wasn't meant as a racist comment, but it's now blown out of proportion.