Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

I thought the article was great and the interviewer came off much worse than she did.

following up a bit about her support for farrakhan and accusations of anti-semitism with "hitler was a wonderful painter" while speaking to a jew is a bit gauche

If you claim to see some good in every human, Hitler is logical person to mention as an extreme you go to. She wasn't thinking of the larger scope or people cherry-picking this bit. Just backing up her claim.

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I found the interview to be a reasonable conversation between two people with different, but defensible, worldviews. I think this is causing a mini-uproar because most Good Internet People expect their heroes to think exactly like they do, and badu just doesn't. good for her imo

uproar around it is nonsense obv

tbh I thought your comment was similarly silly!

this is just who erykah is, nothing she said really surprised me. and tbh there was nothing I found particularly ~*~*~problematic~*~*~ either

btw here is the interview: http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/erykah-badu-in-conversation.html

kevin otm

she reminds me of every retired baby boomer ex-hippy i know and i just found the whole interview insufferable, made worst by the dumb hitler comment and like this bit: "Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me."

wanting to get facts...ugh insufferable!

wanting to get facts...ugh insufferable!

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:17 PM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you being deliberately disingenuous or just dumb? generally when someone gets shot in america and there is a march about it the person was murdered by a cop, but of course you know that.

guys it's Erykah Badu, she lives in her own world and I wouldn't have it any other way

I'm still not understanding your outrage?

"In that situation I want to know what really happened" /= "Eh, fuck these snowflakes *adjusts head scarf* "

lol

when you hear about an unarmed black man getting shot by the cops is your first reaction "i wonder what happened there, it could've been legit"? no it isn't.

i guess i will leave the stans to it.

Keep our head ringin, jim

are you being deliberately disingenuous or just dumb? generally when someone gets shot in america and there is a march about it the person was murdered by a cop, but of course you know that.

― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:18 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm being neither, thanks for the false binary. Of course I know that. And I would want to, you know, know as much facts about it as possible before I marched about it. ESPECIALLY if I was a celebrity.

"another black man was shot by a cop. we're going to march about it. you in?"
"hmm ok what exactly happened in this case"
"oh ffs you're insufferable!"

"another black man was shot by a cop. we're going to march about it. you in?"
"hmm ok what exactly happened in this case"

This is a weird response, though.

ya how bizarre to want to know about the incident you're going to march about

You're marching against police killing black people, seriously, what more do you need to know?

"Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened."

So no, she wasn't talking about "marching against police killing black people". She was talking about a hypothetical yet specific killing. To me, it's weird to not want to know about that specific killing.

She is clearly talking about a BLM march, GD...

because such and such got shot
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good lord the things you people will nitpick, always trying to paint people in the most negative light

I would imagine if people are marching it would not be very difficult to get some info unless she needs to comb over forensic evidence or some shit

it's a dumb way to say "I'm not an activist" but are you guys suggesting she's...pro-cop? anti-black? what?

Or she could just freaking ask the person who is calling her...

I think she's just trying to say that she resists group-think under all circumstances, even the most obviously righteous ones.

I agree. And in the process she underlines why that is a bullshit stance, imo.

seems like she is saying don't just march in the street cos your friends told you do, get educated

being informed is a good stance imo

I'm still not understanding your outrage?

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Before I interrupt a recording session or, god help me, my laundry, I'd like to know facts. Glad to know many of you white people wanna revive a thread to discuss banalities.

erykah rules

I’m on the side of I don’t see what was so bad abt this interview

It’s a good interview, and she makes a lot of sense.

revive a thread to discuss banalities
nbd

"Is anything being lost in how younger people absorb music?

You can’t roll a joint on the cover of a digital download."

Group-think isnt a bullshit stance?!

it is if I like it, it isn’t if I don’t

So there must be some offshoot of Godwin's law, wherein one cherishes an artist's work so much that not even their carelessly invoking the name of Hitler can alter one's affection.

some Nazis are good people

even Russians love their children too

They’re not, but Hitler was a better painter than I am.

People are in real pain. So I understand why my 'good' intent was misconstrued as 'bad'. In trying to express a point, I used 1 of the worst examples possible, Not to support the cruel actions of an unwell, psychopathic Adolf Hitler, but to only exaggerate a show of compassion.

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) January 25, 2018

Let’s be honest, anyone who doesn’t like Erykah Badu is, in fact, a Nazi

there's so much going on in the world right now, honestly i can't imagine caring about this

i'd never checked out hitler's paintings before, they were better than i thought they would be