Brad Paisleys "racist" joke at the CMA's

Seriously? This is a controversy? This is why I hate Twitter. It was a joke, I watched it live and I laughed.

 

It was actually fairly witty. Too bad people get their panties in a bunch so easily.

 

I agree with this.

Twitter - good for up-to-the-second factual reporting; bad for everything else.

 

That joke is way down the list on the 'racism' scale. Are any of those twitter people any one that I should have heard of or are they just random users?

 

One of their handles includes the word "princess," maybe she's royalty!

 

I don't know if it's funny because I didn't see it, but how is it racist?

Who was he insulting?

I'm going to guess that 99% of the CMA presenters and winners and audience members throughout that show were all white. How is jokingly calling it "whiteish" any more "racist" than calling a show "blackish" on ABC?

 

Seems like just some random people. My wife was watching last night and didn't mention it at all.

It doesn't sound even slightly racist.

 

It's too bad someone in the media decides this is a story because some people commented on it on a social media site where the only pre-requisite to making said comments are to have an e-mail address and an internet connection.

A) it's not racist and actually pretty funny
B) this is not a story

What's worse? Some idiots on Twitter proving themselves to be as such? Or people commenting on those people and making it a story?

 

Though I haven't seen "Blackish," from the promos I get that part of the joke in the show's name is that the characters are African-Americans who don't "act as black" as other African-Americans.

The Paisley joke was witty because, though the artists and audience are predominantly Caucasian, at least the artists themselves don't "act as white" as other Caucasians since they are playing music which has draw many influences from non-white artists.

 

Thanks DFW for telling us you found 3 people on twitter you disagree with ~ keep us posted in the future.

 

From Laurence Fishburne (one of the stars of Black-ish):

FISHBURNE: Here’s the thing about our title. Our title is a little bit of a wink. It’s a bit of a joke because, ultimately, if you live in America and you’ve been in America, let’s say, for the last 10, 15, 20 years, you’re probably a little Black-ish anyway. So that’s what’s wonderful about our title, and that’s really what it means. Everybody’s a little Jewish. Everybody’s a little Black-ish, you know?

 

Racist stupid from the CMA's, really? who could believe it.

 

Do you really think that Paisley's joke was racist?

 

I'll go with the reporter who decided that this is news.

I really hate this trend of 'reporting' random twitter and facebook posts as news. Seem like we're seeing it more and more lately. Lazy reporting.

 

+1

It is truly sad that reporters these days don't engage in actual journalism these days. It is all about entertainment value, shock value, drawing eyeballs to the website or television screen.

 

People go out of their way to find things to be outraged about. Twitter is fun when you follow basketball and weird accounts, not Outrage Twitter. I can't imagine how people sustain that level of anger.

 

rocket river faints

 

No more "racist" than what Joe Biden, Bill Maher and Jon Stewart say. In fact, racism is central to Maher and Stewart's act.

 

Does not seem racist to me. Shouldn't have been made into a story.