Foxfyre wrote:Am I missing something? Is Breck hair a bad thing? Did Coulter use that phrase re Edwards at some point? If so, that is considered hate speech?
The 'faggot' remark has been mostly condemned and is defended by nobody. "Breck hair" is comparable to that? Wow. I really need to brush up on this year's PC speech. Then again, maybe "Breck hair" is acceptable or even a good thing. Hard to tell from the recent comments here but I can see how that could be the case.
Are you actually interested in thinking honestly and clearly about these things?
Is "Breck hair" a bad thing? Well, do you think Ulyssees had Breck hair? Did jesus have Breck hair? Arnold? Do American GI's have Breck hair? Does George Bush have Breck hair? The suggestion (context - the long-running ad campaign for the product) is effeminacy, primping, vanity...Edwards as pretty boy not up to the manly task of governance. It plays on sterotypes and American mythology and it's of course completely silly as someone's hair tells us nothing about anything important. But the winning aspect of this was that it was funny because the touch was so light and the comparison original and creative. Rudy McRomney isn't that original, but it's not bad.
No, Coulter didn't use the term. She used "faggot".
That remark was "defended by nobody", you say.
Quote: "What do you say to those people that take the word that you used and say, well, that was an anti-gay slur? What do you say to them?"
Sean Hannity
