Paula Deen

I’ve never been a big fan, but I really don’t understand what all the fuss is about (particularly since she seems to be a big Obama supporter). As far as I can tell she seems to be guilty of using the N-word (apparently long ago, in private, describing to her husband someone who had stolen from her), and of considering casting blacks as slaves at a recreation of an antebellum wedding party. I’m certainly not shocked that a woman who grew up in the south in the fifties and sixties would have that word in her vocabulary (which I presume is what she meant by her “yes, of course” in sworn testimony), or that she might deploy it under stressful circumstances. And as for the slavery reenactment, how does this differ from hiring actors for a movie about the period? It’s not like she proposed to actually enslave them. And as almost always, the reportage on this has been sensationalist and awful.

She made a mistake with her abject apologies, I think. She should have simply explained the circumstances, to pre-empt all of the nonsense.

4 thoughts on “Paula Deen”

  1. 40 years ago my mother managed the kitchens at Sky Harbor in Phoenix. She worked with two black guys, one older and the other younger. The younger guy was a bit shiftless and threatened my mother. My mom didn’t take that sort of thing and gave him what for including using the N-word. When the young guy threatened to get physical, the older guy stepped in and had a lot more to say, which included the N-word and much worse. That young guy apologized and never made threats again. He kept his job only because his apology was sincere.

    You really don’t want to offend people with certain language, but sometimes in the heat of battle, things get said.

  2. 10 years ago Paula had a fun, informative tv show. Then she brought her useless progeny on board, blackmailed the Food network people into giving them their own, unwatchable, shows.
    That said, her prime rib recipe is the best yet.

  3. Show weakness, and even scavengers will attack. The hyenas and jackals caught her and tore her apart. Your last paragraph pretty much sums it up.
    What interests me is that the left is very particular about whom it offers the chance of redemption to. There have been plenty of lefties who were caught saying much worse, much more recently, and all is forgotten and forgiven. I wonder how she happened to become the scapegoat.

    1. My mother-in-law’s theory is that she compounded the offense by being Southern, and by cooking with real butter.

      All she lacked to merit literal stoning was to warn of a coming ice age.

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