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Meryl Streep is totally a racist
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:45 am
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:45 am
Triggered! 
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A week after notable humanist Meryl Streep distanced herself from the word feminist in her Suffragette interview with Time Out London, photos have begun to circulate of the cast wearing T-shirts with a quote from Emmeline Pankhurst, the woman Meryl portrays in the film. The T-shirt, which says, "I'd rather be a rebel than a slave," is meant to inspire women to fight for the right to vote. Here's the complete wording:
"Know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion. I would rather be a rebel than a slave."
In a bubble, it's a nice sentiment. But we're not in a bubble. We're in America, and as has been pointed out online, the terms rebel and slave have a much different connotation within the context of our national history.
Clearly the intention was to honor Pankhurst's words and not to make an allusion to the Confederate States of America and slavery; but people are going to see what they're going to see, and people saw that connection pretty quickly. It's unfortunate that no one involved with the film or Streep's team did.
Somebody call the PC police!
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A week after notable humanist Meryl Streep distanced herself from the word feminist in her Suffragette interview with Time Out London, photos have begun to circulate of the cast wearing T-shirts with a quote from Emmeline Pankhurst, the woman Meryl portrays in the film. The T-shirt, which says, "I'd rather be a rebel than a slave," is meant to inspire women to fight for the right to vote. Here's the complete wording:
"Know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the dangers, so long as there is a woman alive to hold up the flag of rebellion. I would rather be a rebel than a slave."
In a bubble, it's a nice sentiment. But we're not in a bubble. We're in America, and as has been pointed out online, the terms rebel and slave have a much different connotation within the context of our national history.
Clearly the intention was to honor Pankhurst's words and not to make an allusion to the Confederate States of America and slavery; but people are going to see what they're going to see, and people saw that connection pretty quickly. It's unfortunate that no one involved with the film or Streep's team did.
Somebody call the PC police!
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Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:47 am to RockAndRollDetective
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:50 am to RockAndRollDetective
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Meryl Streep
Stopped reading.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:54 am to RockAndRollDetective
Words.
You have too many of them.
You have too many of them.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 8:00 am to VetteGuy
Didn't read it that way at all.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 10:18 am to JEAUXBLEAUX
Meryl Streep can do no wrong. She is perfect.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 10:21 am to WPBTiger
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Meryl Streep
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Stopped reading.
+1
Posted on 10/6/15 at 10:25 am to RockAndRollDetective
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but people are going to see what they're going to see
The intent wasn't racist, so how these idiots interpret it isn't her problem....it's theirs.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 10:32 am to member12
Saw pic stopped reading moved on.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 10:51 am to RockAndRollDetective
I enjoy when these idiots are eaten by their own, especially when it's new generation sjw morons finding offense with old generation hippy morons- who are effectively their forbears.
This post was edited on 10/6/15 at 10:53 am
Posted on 10/6/15 at 10:54 am to RockAndRollDetective
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In a bubble, it's a nice sentiment. But we're not in a bubble. We're in America, and as has been pointed out online, the terms rebel and slave have a much different connotation within the context of our national history.
Ban the use of words that have meanings! Slavery has only ever been perpetrated on black people in America! Nowhere else in history did this happen! There is only one type of rebel, and that's a confederate rebel!
Posted on 10/6/15 at 11:19 am to Peazey
If we didn't have the English language, there would be no such thing as the word "slavery," thus it wouldn't exist. Boom- SJW'd.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 11:58 am to RockAndRollDetective
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Meryl Streep is totally a racist
SO was Abraham Lincoln, no law against that.
Tldr
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:00 pm to RockAndRollDetective
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We're in America, and as has been pointed out online, the terms rebel and slave have a much different connotation within the context of our national history.
Except the quote wasn't given in the context of American history pre-1965.
These people are literally retarded.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:01 pm to RockAndRollDetective
Being racist is just part of getting old..
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:48 pm to RockAndRollDetective
What do you call "racist"? Look it up.
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