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US PoliEra 2019 |OT7| It's happening
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Jesus just don't say the N word if you're White. People know what you mean when you say N word. I never bought the "it's ok if it's for a factual and historical impact or effect". Any effect you are looking for is lost because the people that really feel the word are Black people, not White people, and all they are feeling is a White person using it.
This actually came up in my MA thesis.
A character, notably a fictional black NFL player, from Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk drops the slur with obvious vernacular changes (-er to -a) in a quote that was perfect for the close analysis I was conducting, but it definitely made me consider for some time whether to include it. I felt it was removed enough by being a quote, but when I presented the chapter in a truncated form for academic conferences where I, a white person, would have to speak it aloud I reconfigured the section for obvious reasons.
Of course, again, this is a quote of a fictional character and not me using the term. And even then I sweat that inclusion like crazy and always wonder whether it should have been included. I could not imagine going the extra mile of flat out using it in my own writing voice.
Eddie Murphy did an incredibly homophobic show that was socially acceptable in the context of the 80s but is not now. Do you think that was okay? Lol.
Nah, it's different. There's an excuse for everything with that guy. It's like his flaws aren't accepted as flaws, being Bernie and all.
Note, the episode was fictional and presented as a way to interrogate the term's meaning, rather than used directly by the writer or actor in their own musings.
Almost as bad as getting Mariah stans to admit she shouldn't have gone to Saudi Arabia.
Context matter. Should he have said the n-word ? Naw. But am I going to get worked up by it about naw because what he's saying is basically what white Southerners say all the time that is there motto.
(Not aimed at you in particular, but...)
Ugh.
Ugggghhhh.
You mean this whole time I've been vehemently against Bernie Sanders because I haven't looked him up?
You don't have to "coddle the rich" to have blinders to the Black. And unfortunately Bernie's gaffes seem to all fit this pattern.
They are not flaws that turn people away from voting for him, but that doesn't mean that they don't want him to self-reflect and make improvements. Flaws aside, he's still light years ahead from the competition in terms of policy and rhetoric. You can acknowledge that a politician has flaws, and still wanting to support them.
I mean Bernie not Biden so the conversation so course of conversation will be different.
True, one has a cult of personality the other barely has any fans on the forum.
that's just politics 101. you support the candidate you like flaw and all. Just the nature of the beast brother.
The thousands of people flocking to see her disagree.
The kids still singing "Obsessed" ten years later - I heard it with my own ears today - disagree.
The hordes of people who stream "All I Want Christmas Is You," a veritable modern classic, disagree.
My children are also obsessed with Fortnite. There's no accounting for taste.
Does singing to yourself in the shower really count for this? Really?
Hell, I don't listen to Mariah and even I'll say "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is the single most joyous Christmas song ever put on a record.
I meant my
See, adam387 sis, even the heterosexuals know.
We have always had heathens who shun the warm embrace of the holy spirit.
I admit I got unnerved by the Mrs. Robinson teas Mariah served in that video.
Option. Singular. Warren is the only good alternative. The fact that all the others are polling at less than 10% tells you where the voters' head-space are at. This will simply come down to Biden, Bernie, Warren, and most likely Harris. Everyone else may as well drop out now.
It must be the weekend, the Mariah stans have emerged from their tastefully bedazzled cocoons to sip the sweet nectar of adulation for their Queen.
Omg what is wrong with you.
Come at the Queen, you best not miss. Now this?
Trash.
I'd rather discuss Mariah than listen to strange people excuse old white men using the N-word because they stand up for the ~~~working class~~~.
Because no clock can measure the length of time she's been alive?
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