why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

If somebody blew up my cat I sure as shit wouldn't respond by selling t-shirts.

If the Internet continually makes fun of your wife for soliciting free labor for her profit-making enterprise, MAKE GOOD ART.

open goal, i'm gonna be the bigger man

shared by an old friend via facebook, but nsfw, as far as I'm concerned. also, "doing it wrong" as far as I'm concerned, but whatever.

ew

How redditors imagine sex

Because these things are clearly the same

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NO. EVERYTHING IS EQUIVALENT. THERE IS NO NUANCE. ALL CAPS FOREVER.

Well ...

Not that I agree with the meme as it is there, and I distrust the motivations and assumptions behind it. Putting something in a film does not = saying it to someone. Saying you should be able to put something in a film also does not = thinking it's fair to say it to someone/do it to someone.

But ... Tarantino as famous director of post-modern films does 'get away' with using the word nigger in his films, or using graphic violence in his films, culturally, in that there exists a demographic of critics, professional or just you and me, who wd see his stuff and think it was cleverly making a point, but see the same stuff elsewhere and assume sincerity.

South Park/Family Guy also. Also Roman Polanski if we want to stretch this.

Oh I wholeheartedly agree on THAT, particularly in Reservoir Dogs, and Pulp Fiction where the word is not only uttered but by him himself and is truly unnecessary in the context.

Only focused on the meme itself here!

I just hate false equivalencies, or people's insistence that you can't criticize X unless you also previously criticized Y, particularly if X and Y are false equivalencies. See also: response to ppl on the Internet calling out sexism in anything anywhere, my right wing family frothing at the mouth about the Chicago Machine any time I criticize GOP's position on anything.

A friend of mine (who is a very sweet young woman, a local performer) was expressing her horror at seeing a local Klansman, in full regalia, spreading hate messages outside a 7-11. Maybe something that you get desensitized to if you see it a lot, but she hadn't before.

Naturally, not 3 replies from friends goes by when a woman posts "Why weren't people up in arms when <some minority> was criticizing white people?". And later dropping gems like "I can't get a 'handout' as I'm not a minority".

Later I found out it was my friend's aunt, who later blocked her after she rightfully got a sea of criticism (mostly from me and 2 other folk). Sometimes family is rough.

Yup. And anyway, quite a lot of people *did* get pissed off/criticise Tarantino, right?

Yeah, I mean the commentary on why Tarantino seemed to believe he was allowed to appropriate the n-word for his own has been going on since the late 90s, really. albeit it tends to get buried amongst all of the other things people criticize him for.

Matt Drudge got really angry.

A friend of mine (who is a very sweet young woman, a local performer) was expressing her horror at seeing a local Klansman, in full regalia, spreading hate messages outside a 7-11. Maybe something that you get desensitized to if you see it a lot, but she hadn't before.

People have become desensitized to seeing in person members of the KKK dressed in their starched white sheets? I have never seen anyone like that IRL, would likely lose my shit if I did, and hell, I live in the home state of the KKK's national headquarters.

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that rainbow is so annoyed it's just fucking off into the sea

had to explain to someone why a Straight Pride Parade is a bad idea. Worse yet - this was someone who believes heavily in gay rights!

What about a Homepride parade?

During the worst times in your life, people will queue up to take advantage of you, hiding their true colours to a degree rarely attained during the better times of your life.

During the worst times in your life, people will take on demeanours of heightened monstrosity or loveliness, for the most part, undeserved, and projected by yourself. The result is often a spiral of worsening times.

now that's a hell of a meme

man what ocean has the water with words printed on the surface like the picture, must visit...

I wish I was god so I could make dumb words appear in the sky.

http://www.mennomail.nl/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/lion-king.jpg

how much does a skywriter cost again?

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Fuck u Furtick

that's narcissist talk, Furtick.

i think there's some truth behind that though. i spend so much time going through endless hours of my behind-the-scenes footage, editing, applying basic temp effects for a first screening, re-editing, trying to incorporate new behind-the-scenes footage (it never stops!!), on and on and on. and then when i pop in someone else's highlight reel, and the things they're doing are just so fantastic, the audio is so clear, the lighting always appears to be "the magic hour", the transitions are thought-provoking but never distracting - it makes me want to quit sometimes, it really does.

Once in the middle of a conversation among a few people, this one kid I knew said "If this conversation were in a movie, would you want to be watching it?"

He later became a very, very minor local media personality.

On the basis of saying that?

how did the conversation go after he said that? did everyone step up their game?

Probably didn't have a chance once the media circus arrived after he unleashed that amazing quote.

I think I just said something along the lines of "most of life is not something I'd want to watch in a movie"

he has shown up in magazine fob sections once or twice commenting on syle and I think he hosts shit at hipster clubs.

i suppose you could have just stared back blankly for the next several minutes and told him the next day that you're a big fan of warhol's screen tests.

Buncha Gene Siskel-come-latelies. (His famous benchmark was, "Is this movie more interesting than a film of the cast having lunch together would be?")

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MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS!

that meme got shouty and couldn't control itself when talking about kanye

Just wait until Jay Z hears this king of rappers thing

do you support Paul Deen?

I think Jay Z is BILLIONAIRE King of Rappers.

There are tiers. You didn't know?

"Says n***** every other word on a daily basis"

Damn, his conversations must be confusing as hell

Well ...

lol point taken

I could sympathise with an out of touch, confused person who didn't quite understand the difference between directly calling someone a n***** (when you're white) and general use of the word (e.g. in rap).

The reason I would sympathise would be that the message given out to kids and general public still seems to be 'using that word is wrong!' when in fact that's not what the issue is at all. It's that using any loaded word as a weapon against someone is wrong, and some words can be very loaded indeed.

Actually it's even more complicated than that.

But if I hadn't been taught about it in those terms, and simply told that saying n***** was wrong, I might feel hard done by at the sight of paula deen's downfall and rappers 'getting away with it'.

But they are both successful media people with a lot of money and wtf is that meme coming from with 'the liberal media' making him king of rappers, etc, etc. It's a deeply stupid artifact.

But it's also easy - if you've, for example, studied linguistics and semiology - to understand that there can be radically different ways of 'saying a word'; and easy to forget that this is a pretty difficult concept to grasp and our default state is probably to think that 'saying a word' to someone's face = 'saying a word' in a song = 'saying a word' on a tv show and thus, if there's a stigma attached to 'saying a word' it should apply everywhere.