Buck's Sin of Synergy

He went way too far and should have been kicked off the team, out of school and he should have had a visit from the Secret Service. This is not about freedom of speech or just innocent tastelessness. This is not about one word--even if it was the N.... word.

He wrote in his Face Book page, "All the hunters gather, there's a N.... in the Whitehouse." Sorry that is not a tasteless comic using the N.... word. That is not even about an ignorant racist. The combination of the N word and the invocation of hunters to gather is a clear threat--each part of which makes the other stronger and more obnoxious and dangerous. His sin was in the synergy of using the N.... word along with hunters. Hunters usually carry guns--although sometimes knives, or bows.

If the question is if we would react if it were aimed at another ethnic group, well, it depends. If a Catholic had been elected and he had written, "Where's Lee Harvey Oswald there's another Catholic in the Whitehouse?" Yeah. Off the team. If a Jew had been elected and he had written, "All SS gather there's a K...in the Whitehouse." Good bye again. If a woman had been elected and he'd written, "Let's assemble the serial rapists from Rwanda, Bosnia and around the world, there's a B...in the Whitehouse." Any doubt, he'd be gone?

Slurs plus violence ought to have consequences.