Kanye vs. Taylor Swift: Dumbest beef of all time

Christina Amphlett

it's a fine line

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very tasteful curtis

everybody wanna boooo me but I'm a fan of real pop culture

http://harryallen.info/?p=5154

I wonder if the idea of Blondie singing "I Touch Myself" is based on Debbie Harry's "I Want That Man" more than anything else.

harry allen: discovering there are idiots on twitter

i dont think thats his point

Great piece.

Not that any of these are excusable, but I wonder what percent of those tweets break down in these three categories

1. Genuine hateful assholes
2. Clueless idiots who don't know how offensive words are
3. 4chan 17-year-olds/Vice mag 20-year-olds/cankles 30-year-olds trying out racial slurs to amuse themselves and shock others

1. 40%
2. 50%
3. 10%

i'm more thinking

20%
30%
50%

Most racists are cowards and don't take it anywhere where their name is. Also "internet"

idk man, those tweets seemed dead serious to me, lots of 14 year old white kids who think that just because katt williams says "niggas are ruining it for us niggers" that it's okay for them to differentiate between the two which is a lot of what those tweets are about

i thought chris rock's "i love black people but i hate niggas" was still the earnest self-justifying racist's best friend, did katt supplant him?

tbh i couldn't remember if it was katt or chris (because i am a racist) but since i've seen much more katt stand up in my life than rock i just went with katt. i'm really not sure tho. i'm sure it's possible that katt did the same bit.

yeah that was a chris rock bit from like 15 years ago. I remember dudes in my '90s high school using it to justify they're own weird racism. I had a friend who said Michael Jordan was a black person and Shaquille O'Neal was, uh, the other.

lol jordan

i wonder if chris rock feels bad that a nation of white fucktards use his bit to excuse their bullshit prejudice

that's why chappelle went bonkers apparantly

yup, and the skit that sent him overboard was pretty fucked up

yeah that was a chris rock bit from like 15 years ago. I remember dudes in my '90s high school using it to justify they're own weird racism. I had a friend who said Michael Jordan was a black person and Shaquille O'Neal was, uh, the other.

― ENBB Otter's Pug Band Christmas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude, if u knew people like this growing up why is it a surprise that maybe ppl on twitter -- perhaps even 90% of ppl dropping n-bombs on twitter -- might genuinely be 'being racist'?

xpost - what skit was it?

the 'racial pixies' one

oh i see

Also looking forward to REAMS of critical dialogue about culture wars and incipient racism and o god kanye i blame you for so much
― That is awful. I am sorry. Help it up. That is mean. (forksclovetofu), Monday, September 14, 2009

yes, kanye is a black black guy. yes, taylor is a white white girl. yes, kanye is kind of a dick. yes, racist assholes will take advantage of kanye's dickishness to try to make some badly formed "point". but taking an informal collection of twitter searches for "kanye+nigger" and offering it up as proof of a trend has the same level of journalistic thoroughness and integrity that the NYT shows with it's frequent "Guava Jelly shows up in 4.3 million google searches".

I dunno; this all seems really predictable and sad and tired and i'm not sure i see it as much more than "harry allen: discovering there are idiots on twitter" excepting the reasonable but obvious point that outright racism truly ought to be at least as repugnant to any right-thinking person as threatening someone with direct violence. Claiming that this is noteworthy because we're "living in postracial times" is silly; Allen knows as well as anyone that nobody spread pixie dust post Obama. Shit's getting more and more racist on the daily with all this "not my country" nonsense. What am I missing in that piece that has greater import?

ok i'm rambling on the kanye thread must be 2am

The internet is a sewer basically.

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ok that was funny

wins prize!

(unfortunately I just tried it, it's not true, still though...)

CNN with the dope headline:

Kanye West's 'Fame Kills' tour meets swift death

In an infamous moment, after losing, Wu-Tang Clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard interrupted Shawn Colvin's Song of the Year acceptance speech to protest the loss in the Best Rap Album category, saying that he spent a lot of money on an expensive suit with expectations of winning, and proclaiming "Puffy is good and all, but Wu-Tang is better ... Wu-Tang is for the children".

odb otm

I'm trading this guy off my Madden team as soon as I get home.

I only just now learned what the meme was in forks' joke GIF post upthread ("Has anyone ever really been far even as decided to do more look like?"). not sure if it helps or hampers the classic LOL

at least partially feeling all conspiracy theory because (and this may tip my hand as being ignorant of popstuff - but...) i'd never heard of Taylor Swift until this incident, and informal polling around the office this morning has confirmed I'm not the only one.

now she's a household name.

― rentboy, Monday, September 14, 2009 10:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Could you imagine how fucking ridiculous you'd feel if the president of the united states called you a jackass.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:52 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Here's a post that didn't age well

lmao!

sad LOLs

it's now an endless parade of sad TinyPics wallpaper

Could you imagine how fucking proud you'd feel if the president of the united states called you a jackass.