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<blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 970808" data-attributes="member: 22662">Not really.&nbsp; Jon Stewart can ridicule Newt Gingrich and the two can sit down and have a great interview.&nbsp; He can make fun of Bush&#039;s foreign policy and be &quot;smitten&quot; with Condi Rice (I share his view of her).&nbsp; I can ridicule gun owners and still be accepting of their rights to own guns.&nbsp; I can ascribe fear to their decision and not be &quot;out to take their guns away&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think ridicule in this case is not mean at all because it is simply a view of &quot;us&quot;.&nbsp; Whether someone owns a gun or not, it is a &quot;right&quot; that we share as American citizens.&nbsp; When wk ridicules people for voting flip sides of the same coin, it&#039;s acceptable because it is &quot;us&quot;-- he is part of the debate.&nbsp; Maybe that&#039;s why it is ok for blacks to use the &quot;N&quot; word.&nbsp; It has become part of who we are, not what we are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bbsam, post: 970808, member: 22662"] Not really. Jon Stewart can ridicule Newt Gingrich and the two can sit down and have a great interview. He can make fun of Bush's foreign policy and be "smitten" with Condi Rice (I share his view of her). I can ridicule gun owners and still be accepting of their rights to own guns. I can ascribe fear to their decision and not be "out to take their guns away". I think ridicule in this case is not mean at all because it is simply a view of "us". Whether someone owns a gun or not, it is a "right" that we share as American citizens. When wk ridicules people for voting flip sides of the same coin, it's acceptable because it is "us"-- he is part of the debate. Maybe that's why it is ok for blacks to use the "N" word. It has become part of who we are, not what we are. [/QUOTE]

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