August 1, 2011
2. Newblog2011: 08/01/11 Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News Hour website @ 8:18 a.m.
I am short on time today. However, here are some of the captions from bottom of the page of the NBC Nightly News hour this morning:
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Bank announces $11.5 billion profit, 25,000 job cuts Severe thunderstorms forecast as heat continues $2 trillion in cuts: Key vote looms after debt deal Highlights of budget and debt limit pact Wall Street set to rally on US debt deal hopes Russia to Syria: 'Use of force ... must cease' Cops nab cartel hitman accused of 1,500 slayings Deadly journey: 25 bodies found on migrant boat Behind the Wall: Pickpockets' new tool? Chopsticks
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Unfortunately, the separate captions showed up as one line when I transferred them here.
He's not done with the harassment; "migrant boat," etc.
Everything else aside; it’s the wording, the imagery and the intention of it that makes it sexual harassment. That’s what I’m documenting.
2. Newblog2011: 08/01/11 Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News Hour website @ 8:18 a.m.
Copyright, with noted exceptions L. Kochman August 1, 2011 @ 8:29 a.m.
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August 1, 2011
Here's an addition to what I wrote before.
"Migtant boats."
The issue is that, no matter what you think of someone, or what you think of something that he or she did, an explicit implication isn't really any better than explicit language; that's especially true if you're trying to make that kind of implication a routine part of everyday life and of how you treat people and encourage them to be treated by others.
That example also illustrates how one kind of bigotry supportes other kinds of bigotry. In this instance, code for a situation in which someone's behavior wasn't great but was also understandable considering everything else that was going on has been used not just as a slur about women but to imply that immigrants are dirty.
Also; the situation that was used as code didn't involve bad behavior just from one person, did it? However, the other person isn't being slurred according to gender, or at all, as far as I know; he's the man of the two people who were behaving badly at that time.
Nobody should be getting slurred that way; however, the point I'm making here is that men ALREADY aren't slurred that way.
A sexist slur was combined with a racist slur for that caption from the NBC Nightly News website this morning.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, Lena Kochman August 1, 2011 @ 2:51 p.m.
2. Newblog2011: 08/01/11 Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News Hour website @ 8:18 a.m.
I am short on time today. However, here are some of the captions from bottom of the page of the NBC Nightly News hour this morning:
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Bank announces $11.5 billion profit, 25,000 job cuts Severe thunderstorms forecast as heat continues $2 trillion in cuts: Key vote looms after debt deal Highlights of budget and debt limit pact Wall Street set to rally on US debt deal hopes Russia to Syria: 'Use of force ... must cease' Cops nab cartel hitman accused of 1,500 slayings Deadly journey: 25 bodies found on migrant boat Behind the Wall: Pickpockets' new tool? Chopsticks
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Unfortunately, the separate captions showed up as one line when I transferred them here.
He's not done with the harassment; "migrant boat," etc.
Everything else aside; it’s the wording, the imagery and the intention of it that makes it sexual harassment. That’s what I’m documenting.
2. Newblog2011: 08/01/11 Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News Hour website @ 8:18 a.m.
Copyright, with noted exceptions L. Kochman August 1, 2011 @ 8:29 a.m.
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August 1, 2011
Here's an addition to what I wrote before.
"Migtant boats."
The issue is that, no matter what you think of someone, or what you think of something that he or she did, an explicit implication isn't really any better than explicit language; that's especially true if you're trying to make that kind of implication a routine part of everyday life and of how you treat people and encourage them to be treated by others.
That example also illustrates how one kind of bigotry supportes other kinds of bigotry. In this instance, code for a situation in which someone's behavior wasn't great but was also understandable considering everything else that was going on has been used not just as a slur about women but to imply that immigrants are dirty.
Also; the situation that was used as code didn't involve bad behavior just from one person, did it? However, the other person isn't being slurred according to gender, or at all, as far as I know; he's the man of the two people who were behaving badly at that time.
Nobody should be getting slurred that way; however, the point I'm making here is that men ALREADY aren't slurred that way.
A sexist slur was combined with a racist slur for that caption from the NBC Nightly News website this morning.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, Lena Kochman August 1, 2011 @ 2:51 p.m.