Paris Hilton uses homophobic and racial slur on tape...
Send her to gayhab!
So here is them latest mess that Paris Hilton has found herself in: A video clip that was posted online this week shows the socialite and her sister, Nicky, at a party making homophobic and racist remarks.
In the video clip, which appears to be several years old, Paris repeatedly calls one person a "f*****t" as she is dancing with her sister.
At one point in the clip, Paris pauses dancing to Notorious BIG's "Hypnotize," walks up to the camera and says she and her sister "are like two n******."
The video clip is marked ParisExposed.com, the Web site which was selling many of Paris' personal items, including photographs, home videos, diaries, love letters, recorded phone conversations and phone numbers of friends and celebrities. All this stuff had been left behind at a Los-Angeles based storage facility. Hilton's spokesman says someone who was supposed to have kept up payments for the storage, didn't, so all that stuff was sold by a broker.
Maybe this will cause enough backlash that we will finally stop paying attention to Paris Hilton. I'm not quite sure why she is famous in the first place but I think it would be good for her (and the planet) if we just ignored her and she was left to actually do something meaningful with her vapid, self-absorbed life.
UPDATE: A reader sent this to me this morning and makes some good points:
With all the recent brouhaha surrounding Isaiah Washington’s use of the word “faggot� in the media – including in your column – I am completely shocked that little to no fuss is being made at Paris Hilton’s even more offensive
use of the word as evidenced by video seen recently on the Internet: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2818928. In the video at the provided link, Ms. Hilton is clearly shown and heard referring to different men as "fag" or "faggot" at least three different times. I would expect a response from you about Ms. Hilton's use of the word as a slur particularly because she has been acknowledged by the gay community as a supporter of gay issues,
including being deemed Grand Marshall of the recent CSW parade. A person who has received such recognition in the gay community should be held accountable for her disparaging use of anti-gay epithets and contributing to
the marginalization of gays.
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Comments
What the fuck is that capitalist, republican, heterosexual, hateful honkey bitch still doing around? Who let her out in public? Ha, ha! Go back to the freak show where you belong, you slut!
Posted by: Steve Grant | February 3, 2007 03:24 PM
I'm just wondering how she could possibly look more plastered in that picture without lying face down in a pool of vomit.
Posted by: Keith | March 9, 2007 04:36 AM
The article is right that there is, surprisingly, very little backlash at Hilton's remarks. But there is something else at work here: we, as a society, tend to forgive the inappropriate remarks of those with diminished mental capacity (i.e. children, the insane, the mentally ill, the developmentally disabled). Hilton has shown, on numerous occasions, that she probably belongs to this group and so her words do not carry much weight. Just my thoughts.
Posted by: Karl Chow | March 9, 2007 06:15 AM
The 1st comment and the 3rd comment work more to diminish any reaction someone could have to her dropping the n-bomb. Calling her a honkey doesn't help. Calling her a person of diminished mental capacity doesn't help either. The only way to approach it is to hit it as hard as Isaiah Washington got hit. Whenever a celebrity does something that is morally reprehensible, hit him/her hard and hit them quickly. We dropped Mel Gibson, we dropped Isaiah Washington, we can drop Paris Hilton. If anything, it should be easier to drop Paris, because nobody was captivated by her performance in Braveheart.
Posted by: Mike Kirkwood | March 9, 2007 08:53 PM
why should anyone care what paris hilton says? it's not as if the bitch matters to anyone besides her parents and sister--and maybe the photographers who are forever snapping her damn goose-necked pictures.
Posted by: carol-anna | March 9, 2007 11:48 PM
It is obvious that Paris Hilton's intelligence and looks are inversly proportional to her wealth, and I am being very kind in my language.
Posted by: Objective one | March 10, 2007 12:09 PM
Capitalist? At what business has Paris Hilton been successful? Inherited wealth is more directly associated with oligarchy and feudalism.
And since when is she associated with Republicans? I thought they decried her as part of the Hollywood left.
Maybe the other Steve knows something I don't.
Posted by: Steve W | March 10, 2007 02:27 PM
Hey ya'll, it seems like no one at Slate has noticed how many young whites use the N-word in reference to each other. I'm pretty sure that's what Paris was doing...you know "Ya'll R my *iggaz" is common in the hip-hop (i.e. youth) vernacular. In the movie "Shaun of the Dead" for instance, when the character Ed rolls up in an escape vehicle he says "What up my *iggaz?". Same context Paris was using. At any rate the usage of the word is frequent, and the context is in reference to friends or contemporaries that you love or respect. The writer of this article seems to not realize this context exists. I don't really care for it, but it's out there and that's what it means. And yes, if any of you used it, it would mean something completely different.
Posted by: obamafan | March 10, 2007 04:57 PM
You can't really be shocked that no one else is shocked at what P Hilton says. It's no more surprising coming from her than from Coulter, and much much less meaningful.
Posted by: aleks | March 10, 2007 09:13 PM
"At what business has Paris Hilton been successful?"
Paris Hilton has earned millions dollars of her own money from a variety of enterprises, including the television show "The Simple Life" in which she has starred for the past several years. She may really be an airhead and a slut, but she's turned that into a highly successful career, for which some props are due.
Posted by: Xenu Etrawl | March 10, 2007 09:58 PM
The first comment on here is asinine in the extreme.
Posted by: Cappy | March 10, 2007 10:09 PM
Wow, who the hell cares?
Posted by: David Girvin | March 11, 2007 06:37 AM
Why would anyone be surprised or shocked at anything that comes out of (or, for that matter, goes into) Paris Hilton's mouth? No matter how much inherited money she may have, she will never be able - on her absolute best day - to rise above the level of poor white trash.
Posted by: bill | March 12, 2007 10:28 AM
Just want to insert here that I, for one, wasn't "captivated" by Mel Gibson's performance in Braveheart.
His character in that film had more returns-to-life than Wile E. Coyote, and it reached the point of the ridiculous pretty promptly.
And that was my critical judgment long before finding out that Mel was also an ignorant slob in his personal life.
Posted by: Jerome Norris | March 13, 2007 01:53 PM