Rick Sanchez got fired for anti-semitic comments. His sins appear to be:
- Saying Jon Stewart was bigoted. Which he later amended to “prejudicial”. He claimed the Stewart is bigoted towards people that aren’t from his wealthy suburban background.
- Saying that even though Latinos and Jews are both minorities, they are worlds apart in terms of their relative power.
I’m not sure I agree, but both of those are reasonable points. Neither seems particular bigoted to me.
(I can’t find the full transcript, but the first part is here, and the full video is here.)
Jon Stewart should be laying into CNN for their actions. It is sad that they don’t see a distinction between talking about minorities, discrimination, and power, and actual bigotry. Getting outraged about things like this takes away from outrage when truly bad things occur.