re: B.R rapper Kentrell Gaulden lectured by judge, given probation in drive-by shooting

I never ever excused his behavior.

Not once. I just said hip hop isn't the reason for normalized violence in our society, especially how there are just as many or more instances of violence in the history of our entertainment.

These are just facts. I mean, we lionized confederate shitheads that spent many years post-reconstruction murdering, terrorizing and oppression freed people.

In our schools, American history is introduced to us throw the lens of colonist who used violence to get what they want. Violence to achieve ends has always been normalized.

I'm just not a bigot or going to pass the responsibility to hip hop. It's factually and intellectually dishonest

I'm not surprised trash revealed itself in the sumlin situation.

It never fails. Black coach doesn't do well, gets a trash racist fan mail, OP-ed,
Reprimand from alum, fans, board of trustees.

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yeah but if the probation officer shows up and violates him the judge enforces the suspended sentence 99% of the time unless there are really outlier circumstances

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This is just an OT mini rant but damn, it annoys me how criminals on probation will violate the terms of probation and then say the probation officer violated them.

It makes it sound like they are the victims of the probation officer. Instead of saying "I violated" they say "I got violated".

Just like when they blatantly commit a crime, they don't say " I committed a crime" or "i got charged with a crime".

Instead they say "I caught a case". Like they were just innocently living life and someone sneezed and they got infected with a murder charge.


It just sounds ignorant.

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These are just facts. I mean, we lionized confederate shitheads that spent many years post-reconstruction murdering, terrorizing and oppression freed people.

In our schools, American history is introduced to us throw the lens of colonist who used violence to get what they want. Violence to achieve ends has always been normalized.

I'm just not a bigot or going to pass the responsibility to hip hop. It's factually and intellectually dishonest

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You say stupid shite all the time, but I can't think of anything that wven comes close to this. You are equating the violence condoned by rap music (which I like by the way) to learning history. Yes, colonist used violence to achieve freedom, it's called war. How you even think that is remotely similar to someone rhyming to music about killing someone because they stepped on their Jordans is beyond me.

No I'm saying hip hop didn't normalize something that was already normalized.

Those are facts

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Nothing gets a white guy fired up and ready to frick someone up like reading about The Battle of Bunker Hill.

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Not me, man. Gunfight at the OK Corral is my personal trigger (no pun intended).

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It just sounds ignorant.

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Because it is, a culture that glorifies ignorance

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No I'm saying hip hop didn't normalize something that was already normalized. Those are facts

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And it doesn't get anymore ignorant than this

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Because it is, a culture that glorifies ignorance

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Like the culture of fake news and trumpology ?

Violence in our media was normalized well before hip hop.

You just like the conveniency of

1) not critically thinking
2) blaming everyone's fav scapegoat

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Violence in our media was normalized well before hip hop.

You just like the conveniency of

1) not critically thinking
2) blaming everyone's fav scapegoat

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Very few mediums truly glorify violence on a regular basis like rap which is extremely influential with a certain culture. You can keep saying "normalize" all you want. We get it. You don't know what it means.