WTF?: "Seinfeld"'s Michael 'Kramer' Richards in Weird-o-Rama Onstage Meltdown

Nobody explicitly, but the general tone of the thread implied it.

OTM.

i.e. context only matters wrt what the black dudes in the audience said, not, you know, America 1600-2006.

I guess that's why everybody calls each other nigga as a term of endearment and nobody calls each other cracker.

ppl seriously need to stop acting like 'cracker' is a deeply offensive, hurtful term. they also need to stop acting like 'the abuses of political correctness' are far worse than centuries of slavery, lynching, rape and institutionalized bigotry, that the white man's suffered as much as the black man now cuz he has to be more creative about how he hates. also seriously seriously seriously folx: stop responding to racist trolls like nude spock, stet. and seriously seriously jaymc: stop doing nude spock's spin doctor work.

That's like expecting Gilligan to some day make it off the island.

WTF. Now I want to shake you. How else do we intuit motivations? I'm not saying behavior and motivation are always inexorably linked, but are you suggesting that they never are? If someone in a car yells "N*gger!" at a black pedestrian, should we not intuit motivation from that behavior? And if we shouldn't, doesn't that suggest that we as a society should excuse harmful behavior if we aren't sure what motivated it?

horseshoe, you are not taking crazy pills. I have otmmed you about 50 times but there were so many xposts in between that what I was otmming got lost in the shuffle.

You've only been in the klan 7 years?

OK that's actually pretty funny. That being said, I have A) seen this B) heard a hilarious story about a woman calling two Asian friends of mine "crackers" at a nail salon.

?!?!

The stupidity on this thread is seriously mind-boggling.

Fuckin' cracker.

I don't want to defend him, I don't even like him. I just don't want to call him a racist without knowing more. He did X, therefore he is Y and all Y are Z. Isn't that the same sort of thinking that led to lynchings in the first place?

The tape makes him look pretty guilty, but when I watched it appeared to me that the reaction was so outlandish something must have provoked it. I don't know what, but I noticed nobody's came up with any plausible motive for his behaviour except that he's a barely constrained dyed-in-the-wool racist who just had to see a black man to be tipped over the edge.

Perhaps that's true, but do you manage to hide it on stage every night for all these years?

stop responding to racist trolls like nude spock, stet
This is what I mean! Christ, if you're not in the majority knee-jerk must-be-racist camp, you are a racist? What?

Of course not. I'm just saying I'm bothered by the confidence with which people are ascribing motivation in this scenario.

WOW

How should we ascribe motivation, John? If you can't get it from behavior, where shall we go to determine it?

jblount, may I call you zztop? Please explain to me the relevance of yesteryear.