Showing posts with label rap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rap. Show all posts

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Distinctions


Much of our world's problems arise due to our inability or unwillingness to make distinctions ... often due to lazy thinking combined with purposeful misdirection. For instance note the following items that are often conflated ... quite often on purpose:

Illegal vs. legal immigration

What people say vs. do

Religious fervor vs. zealotry

Hyperbole vs. lying

Rap vs. music

Free speech vs. sedition

Satire vs. mockery

Economic self interest vs. greed

Refinement vs. preciousness

Mental illness vs. mental retardation

Compassion vs. grandstanding

Just war vs. aggression

Pro choice vs. pro abortion

Colonialism vs. outreach

News reporting vs. advocacy


Can you see where we go wrong with just these few?

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Pimpin'


Author Heather MacDonald (see: Wikipedia Entry) was on the Howie Carr Show today pointing out the hypocrisy of the Democrat Party pols, some of the Republican elites, the media sycophants ... and their White House enablers. She said in order to rate Donald Trumps locker room comments, we should look no further than the popular Big Pimpin' lyrics from Jay Z ... who, with his squeeze, Beyoncé ... are frequent honored guest of the Obummers. Take a gander at these lyrics and compare and contrast them to what Trump said to Billy Bush on that bus in 2005 ... see: Play Google.

How this "rap artist" said what he said about how to treat women can be overlooked seems as clear an indication of the double ... nay triple standard that exists in our glitzy yet super sleazy society. The English language does not provide the words to condemn sufficiently such tut tut talk by those who then feel free to condemn Trump's comments that appear lily white by comparison.

I have reproduced just a small snippet of these lyrics below ... try to imagine them being performed at a White House gala to a fawning audience of famous fatuous in-crowders. The ghosts of past presidents must be hanging their heads in shame that their once noble home has been so sullied by its current residents:
You know I thug em, fuck em, love em, leave em Cause I don't fuckin' need em Take em out the hood, keep em lookin' good But I don't fuckin' feed em First time they fuss I'm breezin' Talkin' bout, "What's the reasons?" I'm a pimp in every sense of the word, bitch Better trust than believe em In the cut where I keep em 'Til I need a nut, 'til I need to beat the guts Then it's, beep beep and I'm pickin' em up Let em play with the dick in the truck 
Are your cheeks burning? Mine are. ... I think "grabbin' pussy" doesn't seem quite so bad ...