We, as a society, need to stop cheapening the meaning of words and actions.

We need to stop saying we’ve been “raped” by people and situations that are nothing more than inconveniences. We need to stop charging 17-year-olds who take nude photos of themselves with possession of child porn. We need to stop calling everything racist or sexist or homophobic. Stop taking away importance from real, actual terms that describe real, actual crimes and insults. Cheapening this stuff does a disservice to real, actual problems.

Seen through that prism, is this year’s Volkswagen Super Bowl ad racist like some are claiming? Is a white guy from Minnesota with no worries and a Jamaican accent like “blackface with voices,” as New York Times columnist Charles Blow suggested on CNN? Take a look and decide.

We’re not racists, but we see the absence of black players at Zenit as an important tradition.
Landscrona, the largest fan group of FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, champions of the Russian Premier League, has posted a letter on its website demanding that the club refrain from buying any black players. The letter also registers its objection to “sexual minorities.” READ MORE HERE.

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Skip to 14-minute mark for comedy club meltdown. 

“It’s not about me, it’s about them. Now that’s a lesson I learned seven years when I blew it in the comedy club, lost my temper because someone interrupted my act and said some things that hurt me and I lashed out in anger,” Michael Richards tells Seinfeld in the latest episode of Jerry’s Comedians in Cars web series. “I busted up after that event seven years ago — it broke me down. It was a selfish response, I took it too personally and I should have just said, ‘Yeah, you’re absolutely right, I’m not funny, I think I’ll go home and work on my material and I’ll see you tomorrow night,’ and split.”

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