Tuesday, March 16, 2021



Must not doubt Meghan Markle

‘The Talk’ goes on hiatus after Sharon Osbourne’s meltdown
Sharon Osbourne’s “career-ending” outburst about Piers Morgan and Meghan Markle on chat show The Talk is having big consequences.

Osbourne is seen snapping at Black co-host Sheryl Underwood as the pair discuss whether Morgan's Meghan outbursts were racist.
The Talk is going on a short hiatus.

The US talk show cancelled its episodes on Monday, March 15, and Tuesday, March 16, according to Deadline, to probe further into the heated conversation that occurred last week when co-host Sharon Osbourne defended her friend Piers Morgan after he slammed Meghan Markle for her tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey.

After Osbourne made her controversial comments, co-host Sheryl Underwood responded, “While you are standing by your friend, it appears that you are giving validation or safe haven to something that he has uttered that is racist.”

Morgan quit his job at Britain’s ITV last week, after receiving intense backlash for saying on-air that he didn’t believe Markle had suicidal ideation.

Osbourne explained that while she doesn’t agree with Morgan’s opinion, she supported his voicing it.

“He doesn’t want to understand how Meghan was treated was racism and then says … ‘I don’t see it as being racist — I don’t believe what she’s going through’ — it’s that white entitlement, privilege that makes it racist upon itself,” Underwood stated. “So if you’re saying ‘I stand with you,’ how do you address people who say then you are standing with racism? I’m not saying that you are.”

Osbourne then asked: “So if I like Piers and he’s seen as racist, I’m racist? Is that what you’re saying?”

After the episode aired, Osbourne apologised on Twitter for her comments and to “anyone of colour that I offended and/or to anyone that feels confused, or let down by what I said”.

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Dictionary.com drops word “slavery,” adds “BIPOC” and “critical race theory”

Dictionary.com, an online dictionary tool boasting a massive library of terms, has announced that it will be reducing its stored words and definitions by one – the word "slavery" is disappearing.

In an effort to showcase inclusive terminology, the word "slave" will have its noun listing removed. Rather than "slave" as a noun, identifying a person, the adjective "enslaved" will appear.

The elimination of slave is one of thousands of changes to the online resource. Some of those changes revolve around the issue of race and ethnicity. "BIPOC," the increasingly popular acronym standing for "Black, Indigenous and People of Color, will be included starting this year, as will "Critical Race Theory."

Just last September, Dictionary.com made other key changes in reference to matters of race. The company made the controversial decision to begin capitalizing the word "Black" when referring to a race, while still keeping "white" with a lower case "w."

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1 comment:

Stan B said...

1) I'm not sure that Piers Morgan said he doesn't believe Meghan was suicidal, and if that is what he said, then it's his opinion to disregard her statements. Only Meghan knows the truth of that particular claim, and she sounds unstable enough to me otherwise not to doubt her, but Piers will decide that for himself, as there is no evidence for the claim.

2) To drop the word "slavery" from the dictionary is an example of Dictionary.Com inverting it's role and trying to enforce an Orwellian mindset upon the culture. Normally dictionaries REFLECT language. They are supposed to be a repository of what we commonly understand words to mean, NOT drive language. I don't have a problem with them adding acronyms - they've done that in the past. Removing the word "slavery" does NOT mean the word is suddenly "incorrect." It just means they are a bunch of virtue signalers hoping to avoid having their business burned down by barbarians.