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they could always test the plausibility of the hypothesis by hitting him themselves and seeing how he reacts

I am very game for this experiment. In fact I would like to participate.

My bro was saying it's easy for ppl to forgive chris brown cuz beating women plays in the macho narrative of the hip-hoppers he's aligning himself with.

I promptly told him he was offtm and that beating women is been long considered a sucker move by hiphop (cf. "Posse On Broadway" et al).

But then he asked why everyone is so quick to forgive chris brown and I didn't have an answer.

This is all a long way of saying, why is #teambreezy so quick to forgive chris brown?

Like seriously dude still has an enormo fanbase? Why exactly isn't everyone telling him to fuck himself?

money?

wait do you mean fans or artists

Cuz Rihanna ain't Tina Turner and Chris is cuter than Ike

Fans

they liked him before and still like him now. maybe are also in denial. just really want there to be a big popular male R&B act? idk man

or they don't think of Rihanna as a real person

Fans do generally let musicians off the hook for heinous things, I mean, Vince Neil got Hanoi Rocks guy killed and fans stuck by him.

Fans use the overplayed and reductive "He made a mistake, he's human" trope too.

it's the music, man

not that he's done anything worth touting in a minute

i've absolutely loved him on at least 3 tracks the past year, plus another i think i'm forgetting

you're being pretty kind to hip hop based on one sir mix a lot lyric whiney.

What's more relevant? Mix a lot or biggies verse on get money?

whiney you should read this thread where ppl like lilsoulbrother outline why the black community & also young black girls have been so quick to forgive chris brown

astonishing how whiney can blunder into a thread and go WHUH WHAT WHY I DON'T UNDERSTAND after like 50 posts discussing exactly that

Short answer: Didn't read whole thread

ASTONISHING

try it!

I'd like to read Lilsoulbros post but last 50 posts have been miccio lols at cb's mom iirc

I don't have Internet today and have been reading it on my phone. Someone link me

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let's just go easy on Whiney for now and be ready to remind him about this the next time he goes ballistic on somebody for posting on a thread without being 100% up to speed in, oh, two days.

point taken

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/10-horrible-things-chris-brown-fans-said-to-robin

oh yeah, his publicist dropped him

did she not hear he paid his debts?

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brainwasher may each punch to a bitch's face be a salve to your sore laden weenie

― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n)

I turned on SNL last night, saw Chris Brown mugging at the camera in one of the quick asides they do during commercial breaks, then turned off SNL.

say what you want but the man was born to mug

and lisp

and not read

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I think another angle that contributed to this Chris Brown fiasco is black nationalism. When the Chris Brown/Rihanna fiasco came out, I heard and saw a lot of anti-Caribbean talk coming out of a lot of black American's mouths. Chris Brown is seen as "one of us" meaning he is a good ole southern black boy who is misunderstood and trying to do right. Even though in his music and public appearances that $#%^ hasn't shown any humility at all.

Rihanna is the exotic, Caribbean girl who "has to be unstable because all Caribbean girls are" so black Americans just can not believe she is totally innocent. Since she is "not one of us" she has to be evil and deceiving.

This is probably why I support Amanda Knox, to be honest.

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don't worry Chris, Rosie's got yr back!

"he's a victim too" dontcha know

not really clear on who's victimized him, myself

his dad beat him iirc

may just have beat his mom in front of him, i dont remember

"it is not a simple discussion – layers n layers."
^ but brown seems bent on playing the heel here

I can understand why fellow psycho celebs would be sympathetic to guy, but they don't seem to grasp that the kid needs HELP more than he needs people to shower him with praise and ignore his self-pity/violence.

Esp since this is a guy who seems to pick high-pressure, high profile moments (the night before the Grammys, backstage of Good Morning America) to go fucking apeshit.

trying to think about any abusive celeb who totally got their shit together after counseling and drawing a blank

so i guess people should just politely ignore their violent episodes, then?

And I'm guessing abusive celebs who get their shit together tend to fly under the radar better than those who don't

xp not my point at all, just musing out loud

this guy has like 38 singles on the radio right now

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