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i hear she lost her job over it too.

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Simply frightening.

Total disconnect between who she says she is, and what we saw and heard 24 / 7.

And if I have to hear or read that she calls herself "a good person" one more time, I think I will poke pencils in my eyes.

Thank you, Jackie! Great commentary and link to the full interview. I believe it will be my last peek into Amber.

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I listened to that yesterday on Buddy tv and I thought "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME ???" right ? that's an apology to the jewish community.

If I was Jewish, I would be sooooo insulted. Her apology is just as bad as her initial comments. So now she is lumping every jew in NYC as one type of person...oh boy..that must be loving that in New York.

Nothing better to make one prejudicial comment and then apology with 3 more.....

Hmmm...stupid is as stupid does...isn't that what Forrest Gump would say ?

You can't expect a moron to craft an intelligent apology..although..YOU MIGHT have thought CBS or "Somebody" might have helped her craft an apology instead of what appears of her being left to her own devices.

I love her "I'm not prejudiced, butttttt ALL jews in NY are money motivated, goal oriented.." ..

UGHHHHHHHHH

oh but really what can you expect from her.

stupid is as stupid does

Dan
Southern Cali

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Jackie, I agree with your take on Amber's so called defense. There is no way to justify a racist comment.

Amber spoke these words in the heat of the moment and most folks tend to say how they truly feel when their emotions are stirred - in her own defense Amber states, "I was me in the house, everything I did in that house was who I was." Enough said.

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If EVERY past contestant from BB US hadn't disappeared into thin air after their respective season(s), I'd be more concerned about this bigot receiving a forum to try and alter perceptions about her anti-semitism.

Hope she really did lose her job...Ceaser's Palace has got to have an HR problem with her blatant prejudices.

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Whenever you lump a group of folks together as a whole and speak of traits on a whole, you're being ignorant

What Amber said was obviously hateful and disgusting, but this is a pretty bold statement, and one I think a lot of culture and/or gender scholars would disagree with pretty strongly. Without cultural typifications, Deborah Tannen would be out of a job.

Being able to analyze cultural traits on a macro level, without placing a value judgement in either direction, is a pretty basic aspect of human nature and a pretty essential skill to have when living among people of diverse cultural backgrounds. To deny cultural differences (ie, saying: "People are people, no matter the area or religion, whatever" or "Folks in the New York City area and Jewish people are just like everyone else in the world") is an insult to culture in general and can lead to a lot of needless misunderstandings.

For instance, many children who grow up in urban poverty are raised to treat looking someone directly in the eye as a sign of disrespect, something that is confusing to someone born and raised in a middle class suburb, where it means the exact opposite. Not understanding or denying this pretty clear cultural difference will only lead to a whole mess of confusion and needless cultural clash.

Saying all cultural categorization is ignorant is pretty, well, ignorant.

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Wow, Dave.

If I were Jewish and heard her describing how she worked with money-hungry Jews and how she can tell a Jew by their nose, I wouldn't be comfortable working in that environment. And I'm pretty sure Jewish customers wouldn't appreciate it either.

Which culture or social strata teaches people that making gross generalizations about an entire group is acceptable? That seems to be one area that any articulated position agrees is inappropriate...particularly after you've been on the wrong end of it.

Your example about looking people in the eyes seems a prescient one, but I wonder about your defense of Amber's specific comments. How is her "cultural categorization" NOT ignorant?

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Oh woa, no no, Amber is a racist bigot and likely a terrible terrible person...that's why I prefaced the comment with "what Amber said was obviously hateful and ignorant." She has no defense.

I was pointing out that the blog post above was misguided in it's whole "there are no macro cultural differences" argument, misguided in a way that is dangerous. Noting cultural differences should be an essential, no detrimental, aspect of living in a diverse society.

Calling people "money hungry" and "selfish," well that's just straight-up ridiculous racism.

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If you watched the whole season of Big Brother 8, you'd know that Amber doesn't know the meanings of some pretty common words. When she appeared on "The Power of 10", and Drew Carey asked her how it feels to be scrutinitzed, Amber said, "I don't know what scrutinized means". Hopefully, now she knows. She's a sad, uneducated, ignorant girl.

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As much as Dick disgusted me, had Amber somehow managed to win BB8 I would have been even more repulsed. Nobody knows which reality tv players are bigots and for all we know, Mike Boogie, Chicken George, and Howie could be the most prejudiced people in the world, but Amber's stupidity in revealing her hatred makes her a double threat in life---ignorant AND a bigot.

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I do not underestimate the remarks that Amber made while being a houseguest. I am curious as to why this houseguest is being chastised but not Richard who was crass, vile, course and did this in the name of 'game'. What I find curious is that his son posted that Jameka apologized to his grandmother for calling her a *B* while being verbally attacked by Richard, yet no apology is forthcoming from Richard. I understand that it is not politicaly correct in your country to form individual opinions (seems to be a fairly straight forward - mass mentality) but isn't it rather hypococritical of you to condone verbal abuse against women and the general public? What about CBS playing clearly sarcastic music everytime a Christian prayed? I hold Amber in contempt for her obvious bigotry but I hold the American viewers who condone Richards behaviour and the interviewers who do not press him in regard to his own hostilty more to blame for not stepping up to the unbiased plate. The world will never understand Americans and their sense of fairplay or/and one sided violent, aggresive, holier than thou attitude. Feel free to bomblast me, it is in your nature.
Peace

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@Dave White: Thanks for clearing that up...and you're right about being upfront about Amber's specific comments.


@William: Have you renamed "Dick" "Richard"? Because I don't remember him being called Richard (or even "Rich") in the house and he certainly didn't introduce himself as such to anyone I saw.

Perhaps you're talking about another show and are confused(?)

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Jackie -- I like your point... it came from a bad place INSIDE HERSELF. I am all for accountability. It takes courage and character to take responsibility for your words and actions....even if you didn't MEAN to do something, or REALIZE what you did or the ramifications. If one does this, in most cases, people can be forgiven or grow beyond where they were and learn, which really is the best we all can do and that which few actually do in these situations.

I can't believe I'm going to add this, but for all her talking in circles and what a mess Amber truly is, she did indeed say these words:

"I can’t stress to all of you out there how sorry I am I said that. I have friends from all walks of life, and I really wish I could individually apologize to every single one of you out there that I offended. "

That's a decent apology within all her deliusions. We gotta give her credit for at least coughing up these words amid the sea of the rest. Whether she understands any of it... well, I'm not sure about that part.

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I think the problem is that she doesent realise she made a hatefull comment.. in a live episode they had a "Best of Amber" montage where you saw some of the stupid things she says, and that was only 1 min. long but i can imagin her just blurting out stuff without really thinking about what she really says

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William I was about to confront your anti-american BS, but I'm pretty sure that as soon as you read the word William, you've already surrendered and crawled into a fetal ball.

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Dick was the biggest asshole ever to play the game. I thought he was cool for all of one week, then he turned into the biggest PRICK ever to be on reality TV.

Amber is just a simpleton. Dick knows better, and he is still the biggest asshole of reality tv.

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Mr. O- many people call Dick "Richard" instead. After hearing Dustin call him that one night, that's the only name my father will refer to him as when speaking with me about the show, forcing me to use it to out of the awkwardness of how it would sound if I told my dad that 'I love Dick!' LOL.

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William: You come to this discussion not as an honest participant but one whose agenda is to spew venom on Americans. Any vehement reply to you is merely an expression of what is in our "nature." And then you have the chuztpah to end your post with "peace." Talk about holier than thou.
From northeastern Dan

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What happened to freedom of choice (as to whom we "like" or don't....and freedom of speech in speaking our feelings. Perhaps Amber has issues that go beyond what any of us can and will ever know. How dare we attack her for her opinion? Seems that everyone can speak their mind and opinion openly and freely, unless you are a white, middle-class American these days. And Dick is an A-hole? Isn't that somehow prejudice toward people of his kind? (whatever that "kind" is....: ) Let's all vent and not keep it bottled up! You can only heal an illness if you can open up a wound and let it out!

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E.D. is the biggest asshat to ever be seen on BB.

Worst season ever.

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