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April fools day has always been a day for college campus newspapers to spoof student body, and catch the public 
unwary, all to say later, “April Fools”! Over the years authors of the annual spoof have learned to tread lightly when it comes to discriminatory slurs.
unwary, all to say later, “April Fools”! Over the years authors of the annual spoof have learned to tread lightly when it comes to discriminatory slurs. Jeff Otte
Jeff Otte, who writes for the Advocate, the campus rag of the University of Colorado at Denver, smears his dirty thumb into the wounds of the sensitive culture of undocumented workers. His skillful use of double entendre’s may let him get by with hateful words legally. His skillful ignorance, on the other hand, wins him no fans with the Hispanic student body and those who despise hate speech where-ever they see it.
“Wait till you see the high taxes that OSAMACARE is going to get us and good luck paying them when you don't have a job that all the MEXICANS are taking see how much you “save” on “healthcare” then.”
So states Jeff Otte in his article titled “Enjoy obamacare if you like payin for illegal mexicans”.
Otte might better be known as “Otte-naught”, as in, this is one guy
Protesters
you ought-naught have on your editorial staff. His absolute lack of judgment will lose you readership, assuming his writing qualifies as legal speech to begin with. Yes, there is illegal speech, especially when it comes from a publication which is construed as being the voice of a state college.
Apparently, Mr... Naught was using ‘sarcasm’ while playing the role of an ignorant fool lamenting passage of the health care bill. After carefully hammering Muslims, Jeff launches into a series of ugly and derogatory slurs against those who come here from a foreign land, namely Mexico.
I get the professed ignorant reference to ‘amnesty’ as an April fools joke. Right wing opponents want to call proposed immigration reform “amnesty”. The truth is, the proposed legislation marginally advances the interests of undocumented workers while strongly advancing border protection and enforcement measures. That is hardly amnesty.
I get the amnesty joke, Otte puts the bamboo under the finger nail with his continual manipulation of words.
"Ternment wants you to think there not going to do it (amnesty) but they are you watch. You’ll be able to tell by the UNEMPLOYMENT LINES because tell be stretching AROUND THE BLOCK after the Mexicans take all our jobs.”
The word “Mexican” is used by a proud people from a spectacular and wealthy country south of the border. It has also been used as a racial slur, usually when the words “dirty little” are placed before it. Otte manipulates the word as he dances it’s meaning from “Mexican” (national) to the insinuated “dirty little” variety. One cannot say he is using the word as a racial slur because Otte also refers to undocumented workers in the sense of “Mexican Nationals”. That is pretty clever or pretty ignorant.
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Otte was wise enough to avoid discriminatory language based upon race which has landed editorial staff of other college papers in hot water. However, “Ott-naught” falls into the same trap many other Americans fall into. While one may complain about undocumented workers, who by chance, are fighting for their rights in Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend, April 10th, 2010, one cannot discriminate based upon national origin. The protected classes are race, creed, sex, age, in some cases sexual orientation, and always national origin.
Using derogatory slurs against someone because they are from Mexico is against the law when that speech comes from a governmental entity. While you can report on the news a “Mexican National shot a police officer in Denver, Colorado”, you can’t say the “Dirty little Mexican got away”. Can’t do it Vern. Don’t go there. The Advocate goes there by using the term “Mexican” as if it had the racial slur attached, but it is hard to tell.
We are now being told Otte was using sarcasm, not humor, to spoof red-neck fuckers (is ‘fuckers’ protected as free speech?) who are wholly misinformed about immigration issues and the plight of poor people in America.
The ones who come off as total idiots in the spoof are Otte and the editorial staff of the Advocate. Before the biting sting of hateful words and a slap in the face wore off, Advocate editorial staff issued a statement defending their right to speak out based upon the Constitution they just violated. This is a learning opportunity
“Our publication exercises the right to free speech…protected under court precedent for the freedom of the press, particularly regarding satire”
Satirical speech is protected under the Constitution, hateful speech is not.
The editorial response continues:
“As we have exercised this right, we encourage other students to use it as well, as they will in this protest Monday”
Translation? We if-up big time but we are not about to admit it. Then the staff goes on the offensive, a tactic of a guilty mind.
“Students and other Advocate readers have posted intimidating and threatening comments in response to the story…threatening a news reporter—one who has consistently written columns and stories promoting the rights of the groups he is now said to have injured—does not promote safety or unity on this campus”
Threats, of course, are inappropriate. However, I doubt there were tangible threats. On the other hand, when you write the kind of trash Otte-Naught wrote, what do you expect?
Then the Editorial Staff says:
“The Advocate's staff view removing newspaper and threats to news writers as acts of censorship. Removing papers both deprives Advocate staff of their First Amendment freedoms and Auraria campus students of their right to read their campus newspaper. And threatening a news reporter—one who has consistently written columns and stories promoting the rights of the groups he is now said to have injured—does not promote safety or unity on this campus.”
I Just don’t get it. These bone-heads need to censor themselves. They don’t have a clue what is offensive and what is funny. This comes at a time when the is negative press about undocumented workers and immigration reform. RIFA Reform Immigration For America, is making huge headway for immigration reform. This kind of garbage helps naught! In fact, Colorado CIRC, Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition is busy with it’s Welcome to Colorado program. The plan is to counter this kind of rot-gut and help us identify with undocumented immigrants by thinking about our own roots and our gradfathers who came here as immigrants.
I go along with student demands to terminate the executive editor of the Advocate. She refuses to remedy a mistake in the paper. This kind of irresponsibility leads to student division, possible lawsuits and is against the schools mission to integrate the diverse student body.
Students march on campus to protest. Certainly, some of these same students will be thinking about the hate speech from the UCD April Fools issue of the Advocate when they march in the Rally called the Manifestion massiva and hosted by RIFA In Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday, April 10th at 12:00!
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April fools day has always been a day for college campus newspapers to spoof student body, and catch the public unwary, all to say later, “April Fools”! Over the years authors of the annual spoof have learned to tread lightly when it comes to discriminatory slurs.
unwary, all to say later, “April Fools”! Over the years authors of the annual spoof have learned to tread lightly when it comes to discriminatory slurs. Jeff Otte
Jeff Otte, who writes for the Advocate, the campus rag of the University of Colorado at Denver, smears his dirty thumb into the wounds of the sensitive culture of undocumented workers. His skillful use of double entendre’s may let him get by with hateful words legally. His skillful ignorance, on the other hand, wins him no fans with the Hispanic student body and those who despise hate speech where-ever they see it.
“Wait till you see the high taxes that OSAMACARE is going to get us and good luck paying them when you don't have a job that all the MEXICANS are taking see how much you “save” on “healthcare” then.”
So states Jeff Otte in his article titled “Enjoy obamacare if you like payin for illegal mexicans”.
Otte might better be known as “Otte-naught”, as in, this is one guy
Protesters
you ought-naught have on your editorial staff. His absolute lack of judgment will lose you readership, assuming his writing qualifies as legal speech to begin with. Yes, there is illegal speech, especially when it comes from a publication which is construed as being the voice of a state college.
Apparently, Mr... Naught was using ‘sarcasm’ while playing the role of an ignorant fool lamenting passage of the health care bill. After carefully hammering Muslims, Jeff launches into a series of ugly and derogatory slurs against those who come here from a foreign land, namely Mexico.
I get the professed ignorant reference to ‘amnesty’ as an April fools joke. Right wing opponents want to call proposed immigration reform “amnesty”. The truth is, the proposed legislation marginally advances the interests of undocumented workers while strongly advancing border protection and enforcement measures. That is hardly amnesty.
After the amnesty joke, Otte puts the bamboo under the finger nail with his continual manipulation of words.
“The government wants you to think there not going to do it (amnesty) but they are you watch. You’ll be able to tell by the UNEMPLOYMENT LINES because tell be stretching AROUND THE BLOCK after the Mexicans take all our jobs.”
The word “Mexican” is used by a proud people from a spectacular and wealthy country south of the border. It has also been used as a racial slur, usually when the words “dirty little” are placed before it. Otte manipulates the word as he dances it’s meaning from “Mexican” (national) to the insinuated “dirty little” variety. One cannot say he is using the word as a racial slur because Otte also refers to undocumented workers in the sense of “Mexican Nationals”. That is pretty clever or pretty ignorant.
Otte was wise enough to avoid discriminatory language based upon race which has landed editorial staff of other college papers in hot water. However, “Ott-naught” falls into the same trap many
Not impressedother Americans fall into. While one may complain about undocumented workers, who by chance, are fighting for their rights in Las Vegas, Nevada, this weekend, April 10th, 2010, one cannot discriminate based upon national origin. The protected classes are race, creed, sex, age, in some cases sexual orientation, and always national origin.
Using derogatory slurs against someone because they are from Mexico is against the law when that speech comes from a governmental entity. While you can report on the news a “Mexican National shot a police officer in Denver, Colorado”, you can’t say the “Dirty little Mexican got away”. Can’t do it Vern. Don’t go there. The Advocate goes there by using the term “Mexican” as if it had the racial slur attached, but it is hard to tell.
We are now being told Otte was using sarcasm, not humor, to spoof red-neck fuckers (is ‘fuckers’ protected as free speech?) who are wholly misinformed about immigration issues and the plight of poor people in America.
The ones who come off as total idiots in the spoof are Otte and the editorial staff of the Advocate. Before the biting sting of hateful words and a slap in the face wore off, Advocate editorial staff issued a statement defending their right to speak out based upon the Constitution they just violated. This is a learning opportunity
“Our publication exercises the right to free speech…protected under court precedent for the freedom of the press, particularly regarding satire”
Satirical speech is protected under the Constitution, hateful speech is not.
The editorial response continues:
“As we have exercised this right, we encourage other students to use it as well, as they will in this protest Monday”
“As we have exercised this right, we encourage other students to use it as well, as they will in this protest Monday”
Translation? We if-up big time but we are not about to admit it. Then the staff goes on the offensive, a tactic of a guilty mind.
“Students and other Advocate readers have posted intimidating and threatening comments in response to the story…threatening a news reporter—one who has consistently written columns and stories promoting the rights of the groups he is now said to have injured—does not promote safety or unity on this campus”
Threats, of course, are inappropriate. However, I doubt there were tangible threats. On the other hand, when you write the kind of trash Otte-Naught wrote, what do you expect?
Then the Editorial Staff says:
"The Advocate's staff view removing newspaper and threats to news writers as acts of censorship. Removing papers both deprives Advocate staff of their First Amendment freedoms and Auraria campus students of their right to read their campus newspaper. And threatening a news reporter—one who has consistently written columns and stories promoting the rights of the groups he is now said to have injured—does not promote safety or unity on this campus.”
"The Advocate's staff view removing newspaper and threats to news writers as acts of censorship. Removing papers both deprives Advocate staff of their First Amendment freedoms and Auraria campus students of their right to read their campus newspaper. And threatening a news reporter—one who has consistently written columns and stories promoting the rights of the groups he is now said to have injured—does not promote safety or unity on this campus.”
They just don’t get it. These bone-heads need to censor themselves. They don’t have a clue what is offensive and what is funny. This comes at a time when the is negative press about undocumented workers and immigration reform. RIFA Reform Immigration For America, is making huge headway for immigration reform. This kind of garbage helps naught! In fact, Colorado CIRC, Colorado Immigrants Rights Coalition is busy with it’s Welcome to Colorado program. The plan is to counter this kind of rot-gut and help us identify with undocumented immigrants by thinking about our own roots and our gradfathers who came here as immigrant
I go along with student demands to terminate the executive editor of the Advocate. She refuses to remedy a mistake in the paper. This kind of irresponsibility leads to student division, possible lawsuits and is against the schools mission to integrate the diverse student body.
I go along with student demands to terminate the executive editor of the Advocate. She refuses to remedy a mistake in the paper. This kind of irresponsibility leads to student division, possible lawsuits and is against the schools mission to integrate the diverse student body.
Meanwhile, students march on campus to protest. Certainly, some of these same students will be thinking about the hate speech from the UCD April Fools issue of the Advocate when they march in the Rally called the Manifestion massiva and hosted by RIFA In Las Vegas, Nevada, Saturday, April 10th at 12:00!
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