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Cassius Clay

I found this interesting a while back.

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No, I'm not playing dumb. Your position was not as clear as you seem to believe. And regarding your last point, I suspect there is a dangerous conflation being made between self-defense/fighting back and retribution. And it's a conflation I've seen used to defend the status quo far too often. It's v...

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When I was 15, we were visited by a couple of my cousins from England...for the first time. Brother and sister. They were about 17 at the time(very close in age). Turns out my female cousin was extremely attractive(I had never even seen pictures of them previously..and barely even knew they existed....

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As long as oppression exists you can't look at people as individuals. Yes I can, and I will. The quotes provided by Cassius Clay justify it. If you want to prevent people from being raced, the solution is as unavoidable as it is difficult: eliminate racial hierarchy. The truth is, as long as there ...

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This is interesting, but long as fuck.

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Perhaps you should read my post again as I already gave that answer. The previous post. Well..."It depends" is a very broad answer. So, maybe I should ask a more specific question: What if a cop posts things like "black people should go back to Africa"? But, I have a feeling you...

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Da fuck was that?

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The dramatic trombone effects seem to be a slowed down version of the "kick" music by Edith Piaf used in the film. Time is slowed down in the dream, so when the music it's played it ought to be heard slower. So, the score reflects that aspect of the film logic by using a slowed down versio...

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I'm against the idea of horrible people loosing their jobs, on the same principle that i'm against the death penalty. As for the police comment again it depends of if the comments has something to do with their work or not. Changing peoples attitudes will not come from these kind of stances (in my ...

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Ptolemy_Banana wrote:And sometimes you're just an asshole.

Agreed. And sometimes irony can be a bitch.

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Yeah...that's an interesting political point that may be worth deeper consideration. But, I doubt that most that insist that "no one should be fired for being horrible" are coming at it from that angle.

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As long as white supremacy exists, treating white individuals as members of a group is necessary...as the second article explains. Then we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I believe the second article was saying that it's not good to treat people as a "stand-in" for their race. T...

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And I feel it might need to be clarified again, that not feeling sorry(or taking issue with the misguided sympathy) for people who get fired from their jobs for incompetence(like a PR person)...or because their employer does not want to be associated with them due to their infamous terribleness...do...

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Let me be crystal clear on my position. I don't care if these people are racists, sexists, on any ists in the world. Being a horrible person doesn't mean you shouldn't have a job or be ruined. The only reason you should loose your job is for not doing your job (or other internal stuff, downsizing f...

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http://www.shakesville.com/2015/02/the-falsest-of-false-equivalencies.html?m=1 http://www.contralbum.com/blog/2015/2/19/mourning-justine-sacco-is-missing-the-point http://groupthink.jezebel.com/i-dont-feel-sorry-for-stupid-white-people-on-the-intern-1685563608 Good articles. Especially the first tw...

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How typical and condescending to assume that people either took the joke too literally or knew she was joking and just didn't get it/were just being mean. No other options, huh? There are. I apologize for that. Clearly many people actually were insulted. My problem was that I had a hard time wrappi...

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and most of the responses on this thread - that I feel like I've suddenly stepped into the twilight zone. You stepped into the non-asshole zone. See, sometimes, insisting on being a "non-asshole" in a particular context actually makes you sort of an asshole. If this dude wrote about some ...

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http://www.shakesville.com/2015/02/the- ... s.html?m=1

http://www.contralbum.com/blog/2015/2/1 ... -the-point

http://groupthink.jezebel.com/i-dont-fe ... 1685563608

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Well...have fun at bible study.

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No well. I agree we all say horrible stuff in private. I've said horrible things to whitey, ogl and azzy. But they are my friends and they know how I'm like. But if someone else were to step in and crucify me for it, having them ruin my life and be public ashamed for it, of course I would feel is u...

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And I'm certainly not saying that she doesn't deserve to work, nor am I necessarily in support of her firing...but the tone deaf, simplistic, overly-sympathetic/charitable framing(downplaying the joke(s), making of false/offensive equivalences, shifting responsibility, lack of power analysis, gross ...

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phe_de wrote:
Cassius Clay wrote:And phe_de is correct. A white woman from a wealthy family getting fired from A PR JOB for PUBLICLY saying racist/ignorant things is just like lynching.
Good to see we agree.

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Y'all will love this blog. [none] It started last thanksgiving. I had mixed feelings about it at first. Then I asked myself, "why in the hell am I feeling sorry for bold racists, who are willing to post their vitriol on social media?" Even then I still felt weird about it, until I saw a co...

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I'm so overwhelmed by the obscene amount of tone deafness here - the original joke, the selective/specific narrative and agenda the article attempts to advance as truthy fact, the absurd equivalence to Adria Richards, the selective/misguided "compassion", trying to style an ironic racist t...

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I've probably been in about 10 physical fights or near fights in my life. Thankfully, no fights as an adult(Maybe one close call where some piece of shit grabbed my girlfriend's ass so hard that his fingers almost penetrated her vagina...but I was too drunk to comprehend what was happening, and actu...

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So, I was watching Gone Girl, and there is a scene where Ben Affleck puts a woman's breasts in his mouth . And I was like, whoa. Seriously, what's the deal with film nudity and sex-simulation. You are really putting a strange woman's breasts in your mouth for the sake of a film? While you've got a w...

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lol you bastards

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Thanks to British colonialism, Nigerians pronounce it "zed" as well. If you're going to force English on us, at least at least make sure it's not bizzaro English.

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One of the other issues I tried to bring up with my friends(which expands on one of Liszt's points about the humanity of the US soldiers) was that the Muslim people were used to prop up and center the humanity of the main character. You did not see the same kind of nuanced humanity and depth in the ...

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Yeah...I think I vaguely remember him in Soldier. Fingers crossed for a comeback!

And 'The Princess Bride' was randomly on tv last night. And, yes, I watched the whole thing. I'm not ashamed.

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And 'The Esctacy of Gold'

Epic scowl by Eli Wallach at 1:30. Eastwood's got nothing on that.

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Dr_Liszt wrote:Jason Scott Lee was attractive and I don't usually like guys like him. I only remember him in the Bruce Lee movie, then it's like he never existed at all.

That movie and this jungle book are two of my childhood favorites. Don't know what happened with him. Hollywood be racist.

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aels wrote:So you just want to fuck him?

I just now realized...yes

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I like Elwes too. But I don't want to make love to him.

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Sweeney Todd

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Splinter consoles Raph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkiDVRIdZI Raph loses his shit upon discovering that Splinter's been kidnapped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8k-obRa90k Fighting Shredder [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yClEXBNSTsg&spfreload=1[/youtube] First Turtles movie was ...

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Didn't anyone watch this movie as a kid? You bastards!

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Lol..yeah, there's that too

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And I want to point out that I didn't pay for the movie. We got free movie tickets somewhere.

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I'm not sure where I got the impression that Eastwood is a right-wing nut. He just strikes me as the kind of old white man that longs for the good old days when men could be men and yada yada. Maybe I'm just confusing him with the character he played in 'Gran Torino'. Or maybe I assumed he shared so...

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I don't exactly have an issue with someone trying to empower and organize oppressed people. It depends on how it's framed. I specifically have an issue with oppressed people being blamed for their own oppression.

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Regarding the topic of privileged people talking down to oppressed people that defend the status quo. I tried to point out that the oppressed are coming from a completely different place that privileged cannot appreciate, and therefore have no business mocking them. A lot of the time, that place is ...

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The idea that education is the answer to oppressive beliefs is a liberal myth. Education is only helpful when your racist belief is purely based on ignorance. I think we should know by now that's not often the case. And I'm not shitting on education. It just annoys me that people insist on holding s...

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My girlfriend and I were dragged to the movie by some friends of ours (a married couple). And they both have military family. The guy's stepfather is a high-ranking officer, and the girl's family is at least 3rd or 4th generation military. The guy is a white latino and the girl is black(part Native)...

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Hmmmm....I think I understand better where you're coming from now. For me, it was a scene that unexpectedly added a lot of emotional depth to the character...in a way that ties it all up with the beginning. I wasn't watching big bad batman climbing out of the pit...I was watching the little boy fina...

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I probably wouldn't have thought of that as blackface....but since we live in an anti-black world where black skin is denigrated, I wouldn't be surprised if some folks are taken aback or suspicious of it. Have people been calling it blackface?

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Nah. I don't believe you. If you really appreciated and/or deeply understood what was happening, the moment would not have come across as over-the-top, emotionally indulgent, or out of place in any way. It's one short, lone moment in an entire trilogy , spanning a decade...a moment honoring the spir...

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@sikax You should have posted it anyway. Screw the haters that can't appreciate the depth(symbolically, thematically, etc) of that whole sequence!! @everyone else Shut up! But, for real, even if you put aside my personal interpretations, and the things that hold personal significance for me. Like wh...

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Shut up!

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