I agree with that, accents do not determine race............... However................ if one includes the name of a specific race before using the word "accent" then I think a specific race is pretty much implicated in the comment.
I shall use your quote.
Which wasn't entirely accurate either
"You CANNOT go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts without an
Indian accent."
Anyway the point I was making was that such remarks are made all the time by both sides.....and all races. I could have said his comment was "as bad as" instead of "no worse"
This is not an excuse. Those running for office need to be extra sensitive and think before they speak.
So what determines if a comment is racist? is it the intent behind it or the offense taken?
The world is full of people who tell politically incorrect jokes, are they all racists/sexist etc. etc.?
There are of course unmistakable racist comments and they are inexcusable, but everyone makes comments that can be taken the wrong way depending on who is listening.
Back to Allen: I'm not sure the latest explaination is any better.
What does Macaca really mean? Three Virginia Republicans confirmed to the Hotline that several Allen campaign aides and advisers are telling allies that the word was a made-up, off-the-cuff neologism that these aides occasionally used to refer to tracker S.R. Sidarth well before last Saturday's videotaped encounter.
According to two Republicans who heard the word used, "macaca" was a mash-up of "Mohawk," referring to Sidarth's distinctive hair, and "caca," Spanish slang for excrement, or "shit."
Said one Republican close to the campaign: "In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance." Allen, according to Republicans, heard members of his traveling entourage and Virginia Republicans use the phrase and picked it up.
It was the first word that came to his mind when he spied Sidarth at the weekend's event, according to Republicans who have been briefed on Allen's version of the event.
"No he wasn't calling him a monkey, he was calling him a shithead"
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