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Originally Posted by Elspode
What I find heartbreaking is that anyone would defend aggression, misogyny and lawlessness as an even remotely valid cultural expression. Act like an ass, and people are going to parody you. It doesn't matter what race you are. Gangsta posing is crap, encouraging drug use, violence and illegal activities as an acceptable way of life. The way I see it, it is a way of death. To suggest that this sociological aberration is in any way exempt from parody and mocking, simply because its practitioners are members of a minority group, is laughable.
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I totally with you there. I wonder if white students had held a Trailer Trash Party would it also have been condemned? Is it only wrong to mock a stereotyped way of life if you are crossing skin colour lines?
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"They weren't really celebrating hip hop culture. They were making fun of African Americans, and that's what really concerns me," he said.'
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I agree that the majority of the party-goers probably weren't celebrating hip-hop culture, but were making fun of it. I don't see why that is wrong - the outward trappings can stand mockery and in my opinion deserve it. I also don't believe that making fun of the gangsta culture is making fun of African Americans (although I'm also wary of the padded butt part).
As an aside, I was walking in behind a woman the other day. I was admiring the way she has squeezed her backside into her trousers and thinking if mine was that round I wouldn't mind what size it was either. As I came closer I could hear what she had on her walkman/ iPod and I don't know why but it really surprised me. It was the usual business - something about I'll throw her down on the bed and take what I want etc (wish I could remember - the words were quite clear). I can understand listening to it on the radio, or at a party, but to walk into work (as a woman) with that in your ears.... I just don't get it.