Kim Allen is a comedian who starred in home improvement along with many other
movies
and shows he sat down for an interview with the Tampa Bay Times and yet some
thoughts he wanted to share with us
about the 'n.-word course to alan is in
up older white man psalm or any kind of uncomfortable with
where this conversation is going he said
%uh quote if I have no intent if I show no intent
if I clearly am NOT racist then
how can he uses the words all say it nigger be bad coming out of my mouth
I do away with more Lawrence and pretty soon the refering to me
hey my nigga what's up so on the negative I'm around you guys but seven
feet away
if I say nigga it's not right it's very confusing to the European mind how that
works
of do don't lump us all in with you
no it's not confusing to me is not confusing to most of us to him is
confusing is one thing as an
he continues especially if I've either grown-up revolver whatever
it was literally growing up in Colorado with hispanics and anglos
that's all I remember he went on to say that
a using the term N word is more offensive him
then using the actual word see
for this is really interesting to me because Tim Allen
is not a dumb guy but he really embodies
the although white male republican perspective
so in his mind he thinks well look
or all things being equal if black people can say that
and why people can't that's not fair because then why people are being
suppressed
four always amazes me is that all white male republicans
can't grasp the concept that all things
are in equal to %um now again I don't think Tim Allen means anything by it
but I think he's incredibly naive nobody is literally telling him hey do you're
not allowed to use that word
there's no government censorship at work here there's nobody is gonna throw you
in jail if you use
that word but the point is that if you do we say eight people are gonna make
rational conclusions about the type of person that you are
and that of course for being insensitive person who doesn't understand or respect
the history about word
look his point is it the argument
it is hey there's a double standard here
and I don't like it but again that disregards
that sometimes a double standard is perfectly rational
so for example all let me give you a few examples here if your wife
up comes out dressed in a curve hugging dress
I ask you how I look funny and you say aw
gorgeous I mean look at that but well that would be
perfectly fine but
if a stranger is while walking down the street and says to your wife
doc gorgeous look at that but that's not OK
now again that is literally a double standard to people saying the exact same
thing for one person is fine for the other person it's not
but it's a perfectly OK double standard because
context matters so to give you another example there's a 17-year-old male
who has sex with a 29 year-old female in 20 consensual
everybody's high-fiving each other specially 17 is the
you know age of consent there on I 1729 archie how to carry out their go out
that work out
but if you flip the script and its power 29-year-old male having sex with a
17-year-old female
although some people are a little concerned and they're saying look did I
hope you didn't take advantage over this might be a crime we need to look into
the fax you sure the relationship in start sooner and
you sure there's not a struggle years as a teacher and a student or
bought an employee every day asking questions already concerned right
now again in that scenario context matters
it's a clear double standard but the goaltender very well make sense
but so but Tim Allen
this shows that he so it childish that
he so intrigued by the idea of saying
that word that its the forbidden fruit that he can help with
he just wanted so badly and he doesn't realize that
that not saying that we're
is again the respect that you pay and you're allowed to say it but
if you don't say that's the respect you pay for
slavery and lynchings and jim crow in segregation and poll taxes and literacy
tests on the system
that has been against african-americans for so long
and I mean for Christ sakes why people all is why people for much
just this one paying so either
be classy and understand their position and respected and don't say the word
or be a douchebag and say it and don't bitch and moan when people make
logical conclusions about the type of person you are based on what you said