I still don't agree with you.
Why would you get banned for this? I don't see how.
That's okay. I don't agree with you - at all. I explained why a bunch of times, no need to repeat myself.
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heard that line plenty of times! about dental floss. Have you heard "is everything you watch on Wide Screen?"That's okay. I don't agree with you - at all. I explained why a bunch of times, no need to repeat myself.
I think Rogan's full of shit (we've gone over the fried chicken thing), & yet, I still think you're a good dude. I don't hate you & certainly don't think you should be banned for anything you posted. And, overall, I think you're a good poster. We just don't see eye to eye (although it's tough when the mutherfucker you disagree with can be blinded by dental floss
For what's worth, I'm mixed (brown mom, white Latino dad who you'd never guess was Latino) which I think I mentioned before.
I can live with that. I hope you can, too.
I don't really have much more to say, my fren.
idk bro. these days you have to be real cautious of what you sayWhy would you get banned for this? I don't see how.
I said it before and i'll say it again, i highly doubt Joe had any malice in his heart. He's a comedian, and comedians like to make people laugh. I've inadvertently crossed cultural boundaries in my life before. Unless a person is extremely sheltered, i'd venture that most people have. It doesn't make you a racist.
Those people that would say that there is no cultural stereotype for fried chicken and African Americans are deluding themselves however. A simple Google search would show them how wrong they are.
Good on any culture that strives to better themselves, 100% homie.
No man, but I get shit all the time cause I'm a brown dude who hates spicy food. I think I heard the dental floss thing from that great humanitarian Andrew Dice Clay, in the 80's.
You stated your opinion, which is more or less an 'up by your bootstrappers/rise above' point of view, in a direct way. You didn't say anything like 'black people need to put down the watermelon & get over it'. To me, that's crossing the line.idk bro. these days you have to be real cautious of what you say
idk bro. these days you have to be real cautious of what you say
Seconded.
@Tang
I was in ESL class and didn't finish college bro. I kind of get what you're saying but not really. I guess you are educated in this field. Not going to argue with you over black-white history in America but my sources are usually my own experience. I'm not saying I have a special privilege to speak on these issues because I'm non-white, but as a person who experienced extreme racism, I think it's silly to call Racist over every little thing. I've lived in Montgomery Alabama, have some close black friends from the military, and used to do community service (fix up and paint houses) in Compton, CA and fully aware of what their suffering is. Fine, maybe Rogan was being unintentionally racist with Fried Chicken comment but I still think certain black people complain waaaay too much over something that could be just passed as a joke. I also think Dada's family was just mad at Rogan over other comments too like (Dada didn't even train, He was in no shape to be in Main Event,) and they just used the Racist card to try to get back at Rogan.
Immigrants (I am the child of two, who came here with nothing) aren't remotely in the same boat as people descended from slaves, and inheritors of all the strategies of power that have been in play during and since slavery to keep the power structures that created slavery in play. If you don't know that they're in play, it's because you're ignorant of history, not because they're not in play.
Those same strategies affect you, and all non-whites, but not in the same way as Americans descended from slaves, or who were raised in communities themselves primarily consisting of the descendants of slaves. That I can even say that last part and that it makes sense to your brain, that there should be such a thing as "communiites primarily consisting of descendants of slaves" should be a wake up call to your rational mind, in and of itself, laying there dormant in your very own head.
I used to waste a lot of time discussing shit like this in forums, because I felt like the best place to do battle is someplace where the enemy exists in the greatest numbers, and because this was an area of (formal) study for me -- useless in most daily life unless used, in some way, in life daily. But II'm old and lazy now. I could give a shit. People are ignorant because they want to be. Better to spend my leisure time handicapping fights or applying my brain to some puzzle that has a material outcome.
But...the idea that because you're both not-white, you have some extra-special ground to speak on black-white history in America is straight up delusional, if you are just as ignorant of that history as the rest of unread, white America. Do you know who John Hope Franklin is? If you want to make me wrong, you could start there.
And what Rogan said was racist. It's just not obvious to most non-blacks because they haven't known enough black people, or perhaps really any, except divorced from black communities. And it doesn't matter whether Rogan intended it as racist (I'm sure he didn't), or whether it offends you or not. A thing's being racist or not isn't a function of whether you find it offensive. The statements and humor-base of "chicken and kool ade" or "grape drank" themselves are racist. Forget for a second what your own desires are, whether you get pleasure from those jokes or not, and it's pretty obvious that the content is racist. It just shows how stupid we are, as humans, that it's so easy to kid ourselves about it.
Dada and his entourage are just as likely to be into urban farming and other stuff you might not imagine as going to Popeyes or whatever stereotype based imaginings. If you're a racist, what I just said probably just struck you as outlandish. But it's a fact. There's all kind of grassroots shit going on in "neighborhoods" that privileged people don't know about, and would prefer not to know about, because the view most people who aren't black and "from neighborhoods" get a lot of pleasure from the imagining the world is just like they enjoy imagining it to be.
Yeah ok buddy.
