Slog - Comments on Isaiah Washington: Total Fag http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag That faggot Isaiah Washington--fresh from anti-gay rehab--was given an NAACP "Image Award" last night. Hm. One can't help but wonder what the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would have to say if the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation had presented a GLAAD Award to a gay guy that freely used racial slurs. Probably nothing nice. And, no, Isaiah Washington is not a fag. But as Ann Coulter pointed out on Fox News yesterday, there's nothing wrong with calling a guy a faggot--so long as he's straight.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:21:42 -0800 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:30:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by michael strangeways ITA..If T.R.Knight had gone on a show and called Isaiah Washington a 'nigger', he'd have been burnt at the stake..and if GLAAD had given him an award afterward...well, it would not be pretty, and of course the Republicans would have jumped on it to use against the 'liberal elite'...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661359 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661359 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:38:06 -0800 Comment by Fnarf So, when did they start giving out "Image" awards for making black people look like bigots and morons? Is that the image they're after? Why?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661361 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661361 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:39:42 -0800 Comment by Kate As I understand it, the award is called an 'Image Award' and was given to him for his acting, not his image. Best Actor in a TV series, I think. (I'm not defending him or the award, I just wanted to clarify what the awards were about.)

]]> Kate http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661369 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661369 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:53:56 -0800 Comment by monkey Is he the ONLY black actor on a TV series and out of those actors is HE really the best to represent the NAACP?

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661372 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661372 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:01:47 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Hmm. It seems to me that if the award says "Image" right on it, the people giving it ought to be at least slightly concerned about ... image. The image being presented here is "as long as you have black skin, you represent us, even if you're a bigot and a fool".

What we have here is a fundamental failure to Advance Colored People.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661391 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:17:33 -0800 Comment by eb Well, the black community has always been very weird about gays. Part of it is religion, and a lot of it is a warped view of masculinity. Just count the number of "faggot"s on old Eddie Murphy stand-up routines.

]]> eb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661408 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661408 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:36:53 -0800 Comment by BB i really dont get the big deal...
even Dan Savage used to call himself faggot..
what did Isaiah REALLY do wrong?
i thought fag wasnt even a bad word....

]]> BB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661410 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661410 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:37:12 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways he was in competition with the talented guy from 'The Wire' which is a great show, and gave it to a untalented jackass from a shitty show...go figure...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661411 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661411 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:37:42 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways I....I
M....Mainly
A....Articulate
G....Gay
E....Epiphets

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661413 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:39:27 -0800 Comment by monkey "faggot" is the new "nigger"

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661417 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661417 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:44:05 -0800 Comment by monkey I feel the need to clarify that I'm not a fan of either word but I don't like to give them power by being afraid of them either.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661419 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:47:17 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO BB >do you really need an explanation? What year is it for you?

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661421 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661421 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:48:14 -0800 Comment by BDR John Cloud, the gay reporter from Time magazine who did the flattering cover story on Ann Coulter, today vigorously defended her use of the f-word.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1596427,00.html

]]> BDR http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661422 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661422 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:49:15 -0800 Comment by jamier The NAACP Image Awards were on March 2nd, not last night. The entire show was a huge love-fest to BONO: Ireland's most famous black musician. Bono received the Chairman's Award, which has only been given out 6 times, including to The Dave Matthews Band in 2004. They had a black U2 cover band playing famous U2 songs with a little hip hop R&B flair. The mostly white audience really enjoyed it.

The gay community could learn something from the blacks. Why not form our own organization? I suggest naming it the "National Association for the Advancement of Mentally Ill Sexual Deviants." Let's give our inaugural Chairman's Award to Steven Seagal.

]]> jamier http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661439 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661439 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:57:06 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew michael strangeways @ 8,

They gave that award to Isaiah Washington instead of Idris Elba???

That is frakking insane!!!

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661481 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661481 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:19:02 -0800 Comment by hunh? faggot vs. nigger, sorry, I'm not buying it. A person using nigger as a racial slur is not quite the same as a straight man calling a gay man or another straight man a faggot or a straight woman calling a straight man a faggot. I know you can’t choose the fact that you’re gay; but you can hide it if you choose to. There’s no choosing to be done in one’s race and there’s usually no hiding it either, unless you are Michael Jackson, so I just don’t see how faggot is comparable to NIGGER.

]]> hunh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661493 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661493 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:21:52 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways no, it was Michael K Williams (Omar)from the Wire who was nominated...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661510 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661510 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:24:41 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways can we combine these hateful words to unite our communities: 'naggot'? 'figger'?

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661518 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661518 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:26:08 -0800 Comment by Fnarf What is it about the double-g, anyways?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661545 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:34:35 -0800 Comment by buy it #16,

Are you saying everything is fine if gays hide that they're gay? The fact that people feel they need to hide who they really are (making them feel second class) is why it IS comparable. Seems obvious to me, and I'm straight.

Everything would be fine if jackasses would just hide the fact they are jackasses.

]]> buy it http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661558 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661558 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:39:08 -0800 Comment by -B- So it is ok to call a straight man something that implies it is derogatory to another group. So If we say a straight man is just a "Bitch woman" then it is ok. Too many women probably not.
Open season on Straight men I guess.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661665 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661665 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:26:11 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi They also gave an award to R. Kelly after the child porn/statutory rape incident. So fuck 'em.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661688 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:37:37 -0800 Comment by Sargon Bighorn Remember folks, faggot was the bundle of sticks used to burn alive those people that dared speak their love out loud. #16 you ask how are the words comparable (Nigger vs Faggot), they're not. Faggot is MUCH MUCH worse because it's been around long before Nigger was used as a pergorative. FAGGOT was used in Europe (in any number of languages) long before the Europeans even knew there was an Africa with people to steal out of it. When the word faggot is used, it harkens back to a Genocidal attempt by societies to "cleans" themselves by fire. Nigger does not suggest genocide against a group the same way faggot does.

]]> Sargon Bighorn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661690 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661690 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:40:10 -0800 Comment by monkey hunh @ #16

"I know you can’t choose the fact that you’re gay; but you can hide it if you choose to."

I didn't come out of the closet until I was 29 yet from about age 7 on up through high school I was called "faggot", "faggot" was etched into my locker more than once, one day at high school "faggot" was spray painted on the parking spot where my car was parked. I heard "faggot" directed at me far too many times all while trying to HIDE something that I didn't even know I was at the time.

I don't know how a black person feels about being called "nigger", I'll give you that, but I do know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a slur that technically is true. It pisses me off.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661693 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661693 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:42:06 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways the whole 'my minority is more oppressed than your minority' is sooo tired and stupid...

I have a friend who is part black, Asian, Hispanic, white, Jewish, Catholic and gay....does he win the prize for most oppressed and can we give him a crown?

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661887 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c661887 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:58:24 -0800 Comment by jane doe I noticed that after the Michael Richards debacle the NAACP issued a statement that proclaimed this to be something all whites were somehow guilty by association for. This was around the same time when a faux civil rights leader whined that arabs, jews and korens were robbing black americans through their hard work, I mean, bad produce selection from the markets they owned. And it was around the same time as the Isiah Washington gay bashing comment. NAACP didn't mention either even though that faux civil rights activist was affiliated with them. Why is it so painful for them to criticize a black person? Why is it I'm responisble for what some white guy I've never met does yet they don't hold a black person responsible for their own actions? I think the NAACP sucks, and has turned from being a civil rights organization into nothing but a lobby group that cares nothing about justice and equality.

]]> jane doe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662116 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662116 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:25:11 -0800 Comment by jane doe I noticed that after the Michael Richards debacle the NAACP issued a statement that proclaimed this to be something all whites were somehow guilty by association for. This was around the same time when a faux civil rights leader whined that arabs, jews and korens were robbing black americans through their hard work, I mean, bad produce selection from the markets they owned. And it was around the same time as the Isiah Washington gay bashing comment. NAACP didn't mention either even though that faux civil rights activist was affiliated with them. Why is it so painful for them to criticize a black person? Why is it I'm responisble for what some white guy I've never met does yet they don't hold a black person responsible for their own actions? I think the NAACP sucks, and has turned from being a civil rights organization into nothing but a lobby group that cares nothing about justice and equality.

]]> jane doe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662117 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662117 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:25:29 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew michael strangeways @ 25,

A tiara, please...

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662181 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662181 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:51:16 -0800 Comment by golob @17

Michael K Williams was the competition and he *lost*?

Oh man. On a show with really fantastic acting, he is about the best.

]]> golob http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662525 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662525 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:46:27 -0800 Comment by DS Sorry to go off on a tangent, but why do Washington and Michael Richards get criticized (rightfully) but Rosie O’Donnell gets practically nothing for her incredibly racial slur against Asians?

]]> DS http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662568 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662568 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:06:25 -0800 Comment by hunh? faggot v. nigger, "faggot way worse" and @23... keep reading, faggot may have been around longer, if it came before the Spaniards came up with a name for black, negro, which nigger is derived from in some form. Faggot was not used pejoratively towards gay men until Americans used it that way. Look up the history of faggot and look up the history of nigger. Not the same or even comparable. Nigger resonates with blacks back to slavery or circa 1619. Faggot was first used in print around 1914 to refer to a gay man. Enough said.

]]> hunh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662588 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:18:35 -0800 Comment by hunh? @ 24 and 24

Again, you can't hide the fact that you're black. Try as you might. A straight kid might be called a faggot too growing up for whatever reason, but usually not too many other people other than blacks are referred to as Niggers.

]]> hunh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662593 Hetero Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:22:08 -0800 Comment by monkey I'm gay, not black. Nobody dare call anyone "nigger" in my school lest they get their ass kicked.

"Faggots", however, don't fight back because... well... they're fags.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662921 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c662921 Hetero Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:57:30 -0800 Comment by michael The NAACP has done this constantly with other awards going to people that they believe have done them no injustice. The unjust things that are done to other minorities seems to have acctually promoted some of their winners in the past.
This organization should have been closed years ago in the same way that labor unions are no longer needed as what they provide now is only the promotion of thier continuance and not the people they are supposed to serve.

My thoughts only.

]]> michael http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c675471 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c675471 Hetero Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:29:58 -0800 Comment by michael The NAACP has done this constantly with other awards going to people that they believe have done them no injustice. The unjust things that are done to other minorities seems to have acctually promoted some of their winners in the past.
This organization should have been closed years ago in the same way that labor unions are no longer needed as what they provide now is only the promotion of thier continuance and not the people they are supposed to serve.

My thoughts only.

]]> michael http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c675472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/isaiah_washington_total_fag#c675472 Hetero Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:30:06 -0800