Imus Fired

[cantdog]

And I suppose that's a clever remark to pass about it, the third rail thing.

There may indeed be a whole landscape in the universe of racialist discourse: protected zones, as perhaps black athletes; free-fire zones, as for instance gay agendas and muslims. But I don't myself want to become an expert on when and where to call people silly names. I don't need a map of that landscape for anything, since I don't plan to do any of that.

Imus may have needed a better map, or whatever. It doesn't signify. He was not worth having around, and now he isn't around, unless he sets up on XM or something. The world is a better place without him. And the whole thing was done without government interference, which suits me even better.

Sic transit Imus.

 

[cantdog]

now, is this case different from a nazi making a CD with speeches (or songs) against kikes and 'niggers'? there is a difference of market: in the first case black people and would be 'gangstas'. in the second case, the nazi aims at other nazis and at people who might convert.

the second and crucial difference is intent: entertainment, including of whites, in the first case. in the second case, the nazi is trying to bring about the enslavement or elimination of a group; he is perhaps entertaining other nazis.

Thanks for getting out the chisel to make that split, pure.

Imus was entertaining other nazis, too, but likely didn't want to enslave anyone right off. Just hate em.

Sort of an aid and comfort thing to the real nazis.

I don't think hip hop sets out to amuse nazis.

 

[rgraham666]

Thanks for getting out the chisel to make that split, pure.

Imus was entertaining other nazis, too, but likely didn't want to enslave anyone right off. Just hate em.

Sort of an aid and comfort thing to the real nazis.

I don't think hip hop sets out to amuse nazis.

Hell no. your average Nazi has an aneurism just thinking about hip hop.

 

[cantdog]

It reminds me of the discourse of high schoolers, once they figure out the clique system. "I'll tell you what reality is, it's the geeks doing this, and the freaks doing that, and the jocks, doing this, and the wannabes doing that..."

Relatively childish stuff. Only 'what reality is' if you skew your head sideways enough to see it like that. All the same, hip-hop has taken up prison culture to a degree, and that sort of crap only goes to justify the hate parade. For my part, I can't play most of it on the radio because of the lyrics, and I don't listen to it or buy it, myself. I'm a one-man boycott, but i haven't made it a cause, and I guess I don't intend to.

Fundie megachurches looking to drive a "Christian Nation" into being, on the other hand, this seems more like a problem to me.

 

[ChristopherMaxwell]

Hell no. your average Nazi has an aneurism just thinking about hip hop.

I hope that doesn't make me a Nazi, mate. I'm not too favourable to hip hop or ganster rap, either. But I don't judge the former for others.

 

[rgraham666]

My parents felt the same way about the heavy metal and punk I listened to when I was your average rappers age.

Plus ca change and all that.

 

[CharleyH]

Hell no. your average Nazi has an aneurism just thinking about hip hop.

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[CharleyH]

It reminds me of the discourse of high schoolers, once they figure out the clique system. "I'll tell you what reality is, it's the geeks doing this, and the freaks doing that, and the jocks, doing this, and the wannabes doing that..."

Relatively childish stuff. Only 'what reality is' if you skew your head sideways enough to see it like that. All the same, hip-hop has taken up prison culture to a degree, and that sort of crap only goes to justify the hate parade. For my part, I can't play most of it on the radio because of the lyrics, and I don't listen to it or buy it, myself. I'm a one-man boycott, but i haven't made it a cause, and I guess I don't intend to.

Fundie megachurches looking to drive a "Christian Nation" into being, on the other hand, this seems more like a problem to me.

And then there is us .. Cant. I am betting you did not fit a crowd like me, yet fit into every crowd
like me ...