Topic: Gawker writer fired for calling Kanye West a 'nigga'
Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago #16,114
Kanye West's late-night Twitter manifesto has made its fair share of ripples online the past two days — in some places more so than others. Over at Gawker.com, a staff writer was fired for his post about the series of tweets, in which he decided to employ not-so-tasteful usage of the N-word.
Seth Abramovitch wrote the following in his offensive write up:
"You think Tom Ford is full of himself? Kanye West sh*ts Tom Fords for breakfast. Then he irons out the sh*ts into cutting-edge fabrics, and frantically cuts, sews, and laces that fabric through the night and into the morning, until he has produced the most unbelievable clothes — nay, FASHION + ART = FARTSHION! — in the universe. And he calls these clothes DONDA. But he calls all that other stuff DONDA, too! DONDA will be your everything. Just you wait and see. And what is DONDA? It’s an acronym for Dis Original N***a Dresses Aight."
In the original post, the n-word was not censored.
Gawker's recently promoted editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio confirmed Abramovitch's firing with The New York Observer.
In Kanye's original tweets, he described his ideas for a design-focused organization geared toward making the world a better place. He called it DONDA after his deceased mother.
What do you think? Did Abramovitch deserve to be fired for his comments? Voice your opinion in the comment section.
Seth Abramovitch wrote the following in his offensive write up:
"You think Tom Ford is full of himself? Kanye West sh*ts Tom Fords for breakfast. Then he irons out the sh*ts into cutting-edge fabrics, and frantically cuts, sews, and laces that fabric through the night and into the morning, until he has produced the most unbelievable clothes — nay, FASHION + ART = FARTSHION! — in the universe. And he calls these clothes DONDA. But he calls all that other stuff DONDA, too! DONDA will be your everything. Just you wait and see. And what is DONDA? It’s an acronym for Dis Original N***a Dresses Aight."
In the original post, the n-word was not censored.
Gawker's recently promoted editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio confirmed Abramovitch's firing with The New York Observer.
In Kanye's original tweets, he described his ideas for a design-focused organization geared toward making the world a better place. He called it DONDA after his deceased mother.
What do you think? Did Abramovitch deserve to be fired for his comments? Voice your opinion in the comment section.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 24 minutes later[^] [v] #278,469
No, black people use the word "nigga" all the time with each other. Whats interesting is that I never hear Chinese people calling each other "chinks" or Mexicans calling each other "spics".
Since black people use the word to describe themselves, it's not racist. The real racism is the whole idea of words that are only allowed to be used by certain races. The people who fired Abramovitch are the real racists here.
Since black people use the word to describe themselves, it's not racist. The real racism is the whole idea of words that are only allowed to be used by certain races. The people who fired Abramovitch are the real racists here.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 8 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #278,471
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 7 minutes later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #278,474
@278,469 (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
My Chinese friends call each other "chinks", my Korean friend calls his Korean friends "gooks", and by now we all greet each other by saying "Herro!". Making racist remarks when it's clearly in jest is not a problem really, especially among friends. But to racially disparage someone you aren't friends with, even jokingly, while writing for a semi-professional website just reeks of low caliber, amateurish-at-best journalism. Not to mention his attempt at humor was both inept and in poor taste. If you're going to make fun of an organization named after someone's dead mother, you've got to be very selective in the way you phrase the joke, and he clearly was very clumsy with his execution.
Kanye is still an overrated asshole, though.
My Chinese friends call each other "chinks", my Korean friend calls his Korean friends "gooks", and by now we all greet each other by saying "Herro!". Making racist remarks when it's clearly in jest is not a problem really, especially among friends. But to racially disparage someone you aren't friends with, even jokingly, while writing for a semi-professional website just reeks of low caliber, amateurish-at-best journalism. Not to mention his attempt at humor was both inept and in poor taste. If you're going to make fun of an organization named after someone's dead mother, you've got to be very selective in the way you phrase the joke, and he clearly was very clumsy with his execution.
Kanye is still an overrated asshole, though.
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The Ultimate niggabitch.
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Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 2 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,558
> Did Abramovitch deserve to be fired for his comments?
Well, if DONDA had just been some made up word that Kanye had used I would say no but the fact that it was the name of his deceased mother makes me feel as though maybe they were right in firing him.
Well, if DONDA had just been some made up word that Kanye had used I would say no but the fact that it was the name of his deceased mother makes me feel as though maybe they were right in firing him.
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 2 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #278,602
> the n-word
The most retarded phrase ever. Saying a racist word doesn't become alright if you just bowdlerise it a bit.
The most retarded phrase ever. Saying a racist word doesn't become alright if you just bowdlerise it a bit.
Anonymous E replied with this 15 years ago, 9 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #279,013
@278,533 (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)lol it's true though. that's exactly what arguing with fake anon is like