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I'm a black person who doesn't think Paula Deen deserved to get fired. CMV

I don't love what Paula Deen(PD) said but I believe that if we fired every white person uses the n word a lot of people would be out of work. I believe that if we're going to hold PD to this golden standard, then everyone should be held to that standard and we should stop pretending only the most ardent racists use the n word. 

If its so terrible, lets crack down on all the n word users. If we're not going to go after other n word users what is the point of pretending we are some kind of progressive society that hates racism and slurs so much. It only takes a few minutes of browsing reddit to come across a racist joke. It's not ideal, but it would be silly to pretend all those people are teenage boys working multiple accounts in their moms basement. 

Lets deal with racism, or lets keep pretending it doesn't exist. A witch hunt of just one figure who had the intestinal fortitude to be honest really doesn't help the cause.
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The important difference with people like PD is that they are a brand spokesperson:  someone who is literally the face of a product/network show.  There is a difference between having a guy who flips the burgers in the back being racist, and someone who is being put out to the public as "Look at this person.  They are so admirable and respectable that merely having their face on our honey-glazed ham should be reason enough alone for you to want to buy it." or "This woman is the type of person that we want speaking for our television network for hours a week.  She represents what our network is about."  Spokesperson and public icon roles are very sensitive to things like this, because if you continue to use the person after this, you're basically saying "Buy our racist hams" in the public's eye, because an endorsement of her is an endorsement of what she stands for.  This same implication doesn't carry over to normal employees since they aren't being presented as being the personification of everything the product stands for.