Paula Deen

[Rahul]

Ok.. This Paula Deen thing is crazy... She is being sued for racial and sexual harassment.
This link gives a brief explanation. CNN Paula Deen
The whole racial slur thing, is awful but honestly I was expecting it to blow over. However, her attitude doesn't let that happen. She is extremely out of touch. Watch this video NY Times Interview
I hated the excuse that she was "born in a different time." So were millions of other people. Your age does not excuse racial or sexual discrimination. It is wrong, making up excuses for your behavior is even worse.
Here is a quote about the party thing. “The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful white jackets with a black bow tie. I mean, it was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America… after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War… It was not only black men, it was black women… I would say they were slaves.”- Paula Deen

So yea, losing her contracts is not out of the question.

I'm at work right now and unfortunately can't watch videos. What did she basically do in it?

Really though for someone born in the South before Civil Rights Era she's kinda correct. Have you ever talked to a white WWII veteran?

They'll be the kindest, most polite people around but then they'll blurt out with the most racist shit imaginable.

I found a trascript of her testimony but it's like 133 pages long. It's going to take me a while to scan through it all.

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I don't think many people know who Paula deen is. Of those who do I don't think many actually feel endeared to Paula Deen, not with her being paid to trumpting her high sugar, high salt, high cholesteral "southern" style comfort "cooking", while also a paid spokesperson for Norvo Nordisk, the diabetes drug company.

So whatever the fairness, in any abstract sense, of her treatment by the network, the treatment undoubted creates positive publicity for the network amongst those who don't know her, and it is probably a wash amongst those who do.

Anyone that watches the Food Network will be tuned in enough with culinary culture to know who she is.

I seriously doubt people that didn't watch Food Network before will all of a sudden start watching the channel over this. It's just not a subject they're that interested in.

I can see how a whole lot of people could be pissed about it enough to stop watching.

I really can't see how the Food Network are not going to experience a blowback with financial losses over this.

At least the Shopping Network is holding off so they can analyze their next move. The Food Network just had a knee jerk reaction.