The CEO of KFC, John Schnatter, was forced to resign this week after saying the N-word during a conference call a few months ago. He also resigned from the University of Louisville's Board of Trustees, the MLB canceled a promotion that was supposed to be done with him, and a gymnasium named after him in his hometown is now being renamed because of this.
00:00:00.000So this is a case that I think provides us with a helpful illustration of the PC mob and how it operates and why it operates the way that it does.
00:00:13.300The CEO of, I'm going to make sure I turn my mic on.
00:00:17.220I did, which you probably already knew because you can hear me.
00:00:20.440The CEO of Papa John's, John Schnatter or Schnader or Schnatter.
00:00:27.140Anyway, we'll just call him Papa John.
00:00:30.880Papa John was forced to resign this week after saying the N-word during a conference call a few months ago.
00:00:37.900And this happened, I think it happened back like in April or May, and it's just now coming out for some reason.
00:00:43.360So he resigned. He also resigned from the University of Louisville's Board of Trustees.
00:00:49.360The MLB canceled a promotion that it was supposed to be doing with Papa John.
00:00:53.480And I believe I also saw that a gymnasium named after him in his hometown is now being renamed, all because of this.
00:01:04.680And after all of that, the final penitential act is that he's going to be strapped to a donkey and covered in pizza sauce and sent out into the wilderness to be devoured by wolves.
00:01:16.240But even that will not be enough to assuage his guilt for saying a word.
00:01:24.280And what was, you know, why did he say it?
00:01:27.300It's being reported that Papa John used a racial slur.
00:01:36.260But what actually happened is that he was having a conversation with a marketing agency and they were talking about the NFL and racial issues.
00:01:49.640And so in that context, he pointed out that the founder of KFC would often say really terrible things about race and yet never faced any backlash for it.
00:02:01.680And so Papa John said, well, Colonel Sanders called black people the N-word, only he didn't say the N-word.
00:02:19.260But as I said, the media is is reporting that Papa John used a racial slur.
00:02:28.720Which is, you know, that's like if that's saying that he used it when all he was doing is it was he was quoting somebody else.
00:02:36.280But saying that he used it, that'd be like if if I if I was trying to tell you about the dangers of heroin addiction and in the effort to educate you, I pulled out a heroin needle and I showed it to you and said, this is what a heroin needle looks like.
00:02:50.200OK, you don't want to you don't want to inject this into your body.
00:02:53.020And then later on, you told everybody that you caught me using a heroin needle, which is true in one sense.
00:03:02.060I was using it. I mean, I was using it in an effort to educate you about it.
00:03:07.880But it's not true in the sense that you are clearly implying in an effort to slander me.
00:03:14.620And so when the media reports that Papa John used the racial slur, they're obviously trying to imply in the headline that he was saying it himself, not as a quote, but in an effort to communicate his own racism.
00:03:28.460And this gets even crazier, because during the call, apparently, Papa John was, you know, like I said, they were just talking about race and he he was he he mentioned some of the racial violence that he saw growing up or heard about growing up.
00:03:45.460And, again, he talked about this in the context of condemning racism.
00:03:52.140But some media reports have taken that.
00:03:56.180And they've said that, well, John Schnatter used the racial slur and described graphic scenes of violence against African-Americans.
00:04:06.200Obviously trying to imply that this was some kind of like Michael Richards racist meltdown when it was nothing of the sort.
00:04:13.900I've even seen some leftist blogs accusing him of launching into a racist rant.
00:05:26.480But by quoting a racist, he became racist, even though the intent and the context were not racist and were actually anti-racist.
00:05:36.200Still, he became racist by some kind of some kind of sorcery.
00:05:42.780This is this is it's it's it's it's it's like Harry Potter or it's a magical spell or if you if you say a certain word, it has this effect to transfer.
00:06:18.040Outside of Harry Potter and outside of the.
00:06:23.020Fevered minds of leftists, that's not how human communication works.
00:06:28.880You know, usually intent and context are very important.
00:06:35.360They are, in fact, indispensable aspects of communication in that you cannot analyze or understand what someone's saying unless you have also also taken into account the context in which they said it and their intention behind saying it.
00:06:51.360So the words themselves also matter, but you can't evaluate somebody's words without understanding the intent and context behind them.
00:07:03.920This is one of the reasons why text messaging can be so confusing, because often with a text message, all you have are the words and you don't have intent.
00:07:13.380You don't have context. You don't have tone, because with a text message, people don't usually take the time to to write full sentences that may also communicate all that stuff.
00:07:25.120So they just you just have a few words to go on.
00:07:28.980And that's why you could read a text message and it could simply say, OK, and the word OK could seem like this passive aggressive or angry thing because you don't have.
00:07:40.360Especially if there's a period, especially if there's a period, but we all know that and any time you send a text, a one word text message with a period is passive aggressive.
00:07:49.340I think we all I think I think we all should understand that by now, but there are some people still seem not to.
00:07:55.660The problem, though, is that the PC mob, they want to treat everything.
00:07:59.760They treat all communication like a text message.
00:08:04.720Where they take the words themselves separated from intent and context, and they analyze those words on their own, kind of in a vacuum.
00:08:15.520And the N word especially is treated like this word.
00:08:21.080That somehow transcends intent and context.
00:08:25.160It is, I guess, probably the one word in the English language that is just beyond intent and beyond context.
00:08:34.700And so it carries with it this this mystical power to to turn into racists all who happen to utter its syllables.
00:11:10.920I I think it's a nasty word that nobody ought to say.
00:11:14.440I do not have within myself any deep desire to say it.
00:11:20.060There are certain words that I do have a desire to say that sometimes I'll even just say if there's nobody around just because they're fun to say.
00:11:26.860Like flabbergasted, for instance, is a word like that.
00:11:29.260But the N word is not is is not a word in that category.
00:11:33.720It is a vulgarity like many other vulgarities.
00:11:36.600And I think it's it's best if we all try to avoid vulgarities and profanities.
00:11:42.120But I also think it's completely insane.
00:11:48.280That even now, as I speak, I have to find ways to refer to the word without saying the word itself for fear that my very livelihood could be destroyed.
00:12:00.660Should I make the mistake of articulating the actual word that I'm already conveying to you by using euphemisms for it?
00:12:14.280And yet there are people probably watching this video and they're just they're waiting for me to slip up because I'm talking about the word so much and they're waiting to get me on the technicality.
00:12:24.940Am I going to slip up and say the word itself?
00:12:40.800And, you know, I really I think this when it comes to not just the N word, but.
00:12:46.780But honestly, any word that we we say, oh, the the F word, the S word, the it's all kind of dumb, because if I say the F word or if I say the N word.