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To: epicure who wrote (36208)	4/14/2007 9:07:45 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541544

I'm of at least seven different minds about the Imus affair and can argue both sides with each of those minds. I'll sort it out over time but it's definitely not yet sorted. But I have few thoughts I expect to stick with. 1. The gender part was far more important than the race part. Both are big parts of Imus' language history. 2. The language of race in this country, at the moment, is distinct, in general, from the emotions, sentiments of classical, old fashioned racism. Not to say there is more than enough of the latter; just that the use of the language is disconnected from the emotional passions. 3. Imus was/is an enormously complicated language guy. While that particular moment was bad, and while it's not the only such moment for him, all that sits at an odd angle with much of the rest of his show and his life. I won't even try to sort it out. 4. I'm not happy with the future image of language watchdog groups using the power of advertisers. Lots of complicated, crosscutting, and contradictory issues to sort apart, however. 5. I think this is a story with several more chapters. We are, most likely, going to hit a fairly serious backfire as the next one. But who knows.