The funny actor Michael Richards, you know; “Kramer” from the late hit sit-com “Seinfeld”, goes off on a racist slur on stage. I don’t think that it was intended to be racist from the start, as you can sense that he is trying to go off at the hecklers in the audience, but it is still not “ok”. I mean, you shouldn’t be held accountable for such statements in a court of law (due to freedom of speech) in my personal opinion, but it’s still not “ok” in my book.

A commenter on YouTube had a point when he wrote:
” but its ok for them to call him cracker ass…

go to his show and watch, don’t heckle. rediculous. if you dont like it leave. uncalled for my ass.

chris rock would call that guy a n*gger too. watch chris rock’s stuff. He makes fun of people just like that who can’t stop talking.

If only he hadn’t been so stupid ass to call him that, and used something a little more tasteful to get back at him. what a shame.”

Touché!

Richards should have made a George Carlin-like comeback and bury the hecklers in their chairs, now Mr Richards just ended up looking like a fool. Yeah, you should be able to say whatever you want up on stage, and yes – hecklers should thrown out with a pitchfork and yes I think it’s ridicolous that certain words are paria, but I should say that this particular stand-up is one of the many reasons to why certain words after all are paria in the view of the general public. (Apart from the PC-panic showing up once and again.)

We could go into a detailed discussion/conflict regarding the hypocrisy about hizzing at some words, but saying the same things with another “dress-code” and we can also discuss that these words are not a disease, but a mere symptom of something being very very wrong. If there wasn’t something wrong, you’d be able to say any possible racist slur possible and no-one would raise an eyebrow.

With this said, google “racist slur” and you’ll be taken to “the database of racist slurs” and also a full wikipedia entry with various racist slurs. Not for the faint hearted, but why do we really react?!

Aren’t we citizen of the global village yet?!