Just wait until Jay Z hears this king of rappers thing
― pplains, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:29 (ten years ago) link
do you support Paul Deen?
― DJP, Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:48 (ten years ago) link
I think Jay Z is BILLIONAIRE King of Rappers.
There are tiers. You didn't know?
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 June 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
"Says n***** every other word on a daily basis"
Damn, his conversations must be confusing as hell
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
Well ...
― cardamon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
lol point taken
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
I could sympathise with an out of touch, confused person who didn't quite understand the difference between directly calling someone a n***** (when you're white) and general use of the word (e.g. in rap).
The reason I would sympathise would be that the message given out to kids and general public still seems to be 'using that word is wrong!' when in fact that's not what the issue is at all. It's that using any loaded word as a weapon against someone is wrong, and some words can be very loaded indeed.
Actually it's even more complicated than that.
But if I hadn't been taught about it in those terms, and simply told that saying n***** was wrong, I might feel hard done by at the sight of paula deen's downfall and rappers 'getting away with it'.
― cardamon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
But they are both successful media people with a lot of money and wtf is that meme coming from with 'the liberal media' making him king of rappers, etc, etc. It's a deeply stupid artifact.
But it's also easy - if you've, for example, studied linguistics and semiology - to understand that there can be radically different ways of 'saying a word'; and easy to forget that this is a pretty difficult concept to grasp and our default state is probably to think that 'saying a word' to someone's face = 'saying a word' in a song = 'saying a word' on a tv show and thus, if there's a stigma attached to 'saying a word' it should apply everywhere.
― cardamon, Thursday, 27 June 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
These Deenfenders... She said she would like to have servants for a party dressed as slaves. Even KKK assholes have to be, "That shit is weird."
― pplains, Thursday, 27 June 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
"politically" Correct
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 June 2013 09:19 (ten years ago) link
why do idiots always capitalize so crazy
― j., Thursday, 27 June 2013 09:33 (ten years ago) link
I aint sayin she a gold digger/ But she want some blacks dressed up as slaves to serve at her wedding dinner
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 June 2013 09:41 (ten years ago) link
I mean, I'm sure Kanye's done some other songs where that might even scan, but fuck it.
thats gotta be a troll
― max, Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:20 (ten years ago) link
Paula Deen "The N word" but Kanye says "nigger"
― Je55e, Thursday, 27 June 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNwd70MCQAAD3Nw.jpg
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 27 June 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
pauline hanson, media soundbite expert
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 27 June 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link
you know, if Paula Deen had asked for some "african american youths" to be dressed up as slaves at her wedding dinner, somehow I don't think that would be ok eithr
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Still loving "Paul Deen."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
Remember that weird GOP dinner in one of the Carolinas where they had African Americans in costume portraying slaves? AT LEAST THEY WEREN'T POURING SWEET TEA OUT FOR THE DINERS.
"We don't have much of a budget for the dinner? Well, what if we dressed the wait staff up like Holocaust victims. That way, folks wouldn't feel so bad about not having much on their plate!"
― pplains, Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Man, I don't know if I'm making this up or if I read it somewhere or if it really happened but I went to Model UN when I was in high school and there was a group dinner event and I swear students were encouraged to skip dinner as some kind of Holocaust remembrance thing? Or maybe it was a famine awareness gesture? It was tacky as hell, whatever it was.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
"I'm just going to skip dinner and go stand next to the kitchen ovens for awhile."
― pplains, Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
fb friend posted this
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7TEFQF/www.sooofun.com/wtf-is-wrong-with-americans
just a regular silhouette dropping some Nordic wisdom
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:42 (ten years ago) link
My internal reading voice went straight for "Ole and Lena Joke".
― how's life, Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Silhouette man unmasked:
http://mytornadoalley.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/swedish-chef.jpg
― MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS! (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 27 June 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1014310_582998541722602_1946393000_n.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Roog! Roog!
― kinder, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
The pic is nice. The text is just a slight variation on a very old joke.
― Aimless, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
I just...can't....Oh...my....
http://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/june13/cracker2.jpg
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
aaaaaahahaha
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 28 June 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Since when was cracker derogatory for Amish
― how's life, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
thought that was the lead in Pippin
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 June 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
tbh, I wouldn't hesitate to call that guy a cracker. Maybe we all have a lot of growing up to do....
― Moodles, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
I thought that was the lead actor in a Oberlin College production of The Hobbit.
― Aimless, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
there and crackergain
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 28 June 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
we can never grow as a people until we treat the least of our tumbler wites white folk with decency and respect.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
I've never heard the word cracker used except in the context of white ppl saying its unfair that they aren't allowed to use racial epithets without censure whereas anyone is free to use the word cracker against them
― Treeship, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
wait that is supposed to be funny right?
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 June 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
apparently it's becoming an issue bc of the trayvon trial
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Friday, 28 June 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
xpost being that it came from SomethingAwful, yeah. humorously, not everybody sharing it is in on the joke.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 June 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
Wow there are some stupid honkies out there.
― carl agatha, Friday, 28 June 2013 19:24 (ten years ago) link
my first thought on seeing that actually was that it had something to do with the band
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
I hear "cracker" solely from hip friends who boast about not owning any records that aren't world music or jazz.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 June 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1043856_10151543084939001_2075564380_n.jpg
― Romantic style in da world (crüt), Friday, 28 June 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
That's a strange twist, didn't see it coming
― Moodles, Friday, 28 June 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
sounds like a shitty game. goin out to do a pub crawl instead
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 June 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Let's guess what that blurry picture is of.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 28 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
i think it's the highway to hell
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Friday, 28 June 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TO PLAY-FIGHT.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 28 June 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
http://iambeggingmymothernottoreadthisblog.com/2013/06/24/twelve-habits-of-happy-healthy-people-who-dont-give-a-shit-about-your-inner-peace/
relevant
― cardamon, Saturday, 29 June 2013 10:43 (ten years ago) link