INTENSITY²
Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: McGiver on April 13, 2007, 08:02:08 PM
-
i am not sure if the people outside of america have been following the Don Imus story.
in short:
he made a comment about the Rutgers female Basketball team. he called them, "Nappy haired Ho's."
Don Imus is a radio personality, who, imo, is an idiot. however, btween his radio show and tv show on MSNBC he generated roughly 50 million dollars each year in advertising revenue.
Jessy Jackson and Al Sharpton made a call for his job. and they got it. Don Imus was fired....for words.
where was Jessy Jackson or Al Sharpton when a black man made these comments on C-Span:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN5StQAr7n0
it is interesting to me that people are slowly losing their rights to free speech, unless they are people of color, or even women.
why should free speech be selective?
as far as i am concerned, Don Imus' words are a minor inconvenience in the double edged sword that is, free speech.
-
I don't approve of what Don Imus said at all, but you can hear the same slurs in most rap music, so if they are going to fire Imus for saying something sexually and racially insensitive, shouldn't they also ban all rap music referring to women as "Hos" or "Nappy-headed" to be consistent?
-
There was a Swedish weather girl losing her job on TV4 for posing for semi-nude pics in a magazine. That's incredibly ridiculous and double moralistic, since they can show authentic sex scenes on Swedish TV on daytime. ::)
-
Unfortunately, the vocal minority will always win over the rest of us. Its not who´s right, it´s who´s the loudest and most sensitve who controls what is allowed and what is not. Should he have made that comment? Probably not a good idea, but, its no worse than anything else being said now days. Imus is also calling for Sharpton to apologize for slamming the Duke students who were cleared of rape charges, but I don´t see that movement picking up steam anytime soon.
-
What was said in the youtube video? I'm too lazy to register.
-
What was said in the youtube video? I'm too lazy to register.
it was a black college professor who on C-Span said, "that the only solution to black problems is that the white people should be exterminated."
he actually made a call for white peoples heads.
if this was a middle easterner saying that, then i bet we launch a full scale war against their country.
like i said, free speech is a double edged sword. i would agree that this man has the right to say what he wants. but so should everybody.....equally.
jonathon is right. we cater to the most sensitive.
what a phony, boring world we will live in when we wake up one day and everybody is blowing sunshine up everybody elses arse. or not saying anything at all for fear of offending somebody.
-
what a phony, boring world we will live in when we wake up one day and everybody is blowing sunshine up everybody elses arse. or not saying anything at all for fear of offending somebody.
Sweden is heading that way -- quickly. :(
-
There was a Swedish weather girl losing her job on TV4 for posing for semi-nude pics in a magazine. That's incredibly ridiculous and double moralistic, since they can show authentic sex scenes on Swedish TV on daytime. ::)
She didn't lose her job.
-
Probably the radio company was just looking for an excuse to kick his ass for saying that shit. He'll get another show, I have no doubt, with a less stuffy radio company. Howard stern played hardball with radio companys for practically his entire career.
-
There was a Swedish weather girl losing her job on TV4 for posing for semi-nude pics in a magazine. That's incredibly ridiculous and double moralistic, since they can show authentic sex scenes on Swedish TV on daytime. ::)
She didn't lose her job.
Didn't she? ??? Well, it was ridiculuos to even make a comment on it, considering the policy on nudity and sex in Swedish TV.
-
They didn't let her on camera for a while, but she was on last week.
-
Hypocrites. They have low life soap operas and shit like Bingo-Lotto and they have the stomach to ban a weather girl for posing for semi-nude pics of her job.
-
She's hawt.
-
Hypocrites. They have low life soap operas and shit like Bingo-Lotto and they have the stomach to ban a weather girl for posing for semi-nude pics of her job.
whenever someone tries to impose rules they are usually based in hippocricy.
-
Hypocrites. They have low life soap operas and shit like Bingo-Lotto and they have the stomach to ban a weather girl for posing for semi-nude pics of her job.
whenever someone tries to impose rules they are usually based in hippocricy.
I know. That's why rules usually piss me off that much.
-
that's why i believe that rules are decreed by those that the rules most advantage.
but for me, rules are shunned or manipulated to satisfy my particular needs.
-
There was a Swedish weather girl losing her job on TV4 for posing for semi-nude pics in a magazine. That's incredibly ridiculous and double moralistic, since they can show authentic sex scenes on Swedish TV on daytime. ::)
She didn't lose her job.
Didn't she? ??? Well, it was ridiculuos to even make a comment on it, considering the policy on nudity and sex in Swedish TV.
You sir are an arse.
-
jesse jackson and al sharpton are both clowns that are niggers
-
jesse jackson and al sharpton are both clowns that are niggers
Lol, you said nigger.
-
:clap:
-
jesse jackson and al sharpton are both clowns that are niggers
Lol, you said nigger.
NIGGER O0
-
how do you see a nigger at nite? you can only see him if he opens his mouth or eyes
-
Yawn, nigger jokes. Call me when the burning crosses are off the lawn again. ::)
-
interesting that that video was posted by someone called "BNPBloke" (BNP is british far right national front party)
not a fan of those ngger jokes really- not a patch on south park's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Apologies_to_Jesse_Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Apologies_to_Jesse_Jackson)
-
I fucking hate the BNP with a passion. Set of cunts. :finger:
-
She's hawt.
... post one.
-
never had much involvement with them and they seem pretty ineffectual. goes without saying that they're cunts.
-
you'd think so wouldn't you? unfortunately the bastards keep getting seats around here. :puke:
-
I got my fill of senseless unjust censorship in 7th through 10th grade. I got pissed enough at it during those years to last me the rest of my life. Now, i just can't spare the rage. Not that I wont eagerly vote against censorship bills, and vote for more freedom of speech bills, it is just that it has become entirely clear to me that besides that, there is almost nothing I can do. I argued with people for years, and changed like a handful of minds. So at least by arguing and indignation, i have seen no results.
Most of the minds i've seen changed were due to somebody appealing to a particular persons bias, and telling them something about the people they were originally siding with that offends them even more than the people they were siding against. And try to make it as out of context as possible, and hope they don't have any counter arguments. But even then, a disturbing proportion of people pick a side, and their loyalty(and desire to not be "proved" wrong) prevents them from reconsidering their position.
But nonetheless, in my experience, that cheapass tactic is worth dozens of more effective votes than arguing, and it requires far less pistivity.
-
oh ;( where's here?
-
Yawn, nigger jokes. Call me when the burning crosses are off the lawn again. ::)
i take it you are a nigger
-
You take it I am mixed race. I take it you are a fuckwit.
-
how do you see a nigger at nite? you can only see him if he opens his mouth or eyes
your speech is a small inconvenience for me to keep my right to speak freely.
freedom runs the gammit.
with absolute freedom you get the best of the best.
and in richards case, the worst of the worse.
-
hey man call me a fucking racial slur for white people then. i dont care
-
hey man call me a fucking racial slur for white people then. i dont care
neither do i.
i use racial slurs sometimes as well.
they come from a place of intolerance within me.
i view them as a minor inconvenience.
-
i find its only niggers who get upset if there called any names. i dont know any white person who gives a rats ass if they get called one
-
too sensitive perhaps.
maybe, with reason.
but i really think that it makes them (black people) look insecure. which makes me wonder why....
-
hey man call me a fucking racial slur for white people then. i dont care
No need, I already returned the insult. You're not a proper racist anyway. :eyebrows:
i find its only niggers who get upset if there called any names. i dont know any white person who gives a rats ass if they get called one
Maybe cos 'honky' or 'cracker' sound fucking stupid. Is that supposed to be an insult?
-
i believe that there will come a time in america when someone will get fined or arrested for using the word nigger.
then it is just a matter of time before people will have to meet in private to speak ill of the government.
-
i believe that there will come a time in america when someone will get fined or arrested for using the word nigger.
then it is just a matter of time before people will have to meet in private to speak ill of the government.
hahaha
-
i believe that there will come a time in america when someone will get fined or arrested for using the word nigger.
then it is just a matter of time before people will have to meet in private to speak ill of the government.
hahaha
i'm not joking.
it seems that all legislation is written to:
1.) think for people
2.) protect peoples sensitivities
3.) appease the loudest 2% of the population
-
nah first they'll ban the word nigger-guy (http://www.tv-links.co.uk/link.do/2/157/656/10410/17957)
-
i believe that there will come a time in america when someone will get fined or arrested for using the word nigger.
then it is just a matter of time before people will have to meet in private to speak ill of the government.
hahaha
i'm not joking.
it seems that all legislation is written to:
1.) think for people
2.) protect peoples sensitivities
3.) appease the loudest 2% of the population
you missed off, make rich people that little bit richer.
-
i believe that there will come a time in america when someone will get fined or arrested for using the word nigger.
then it is just a matter of time before people will have to meet in private to speak ill of the government.
hahaha
i'm not joking.
it seems that all legislation is written to:
1.) think for people
2.) protect peoples sensitivities
3.) appease the loudest 2% of the population
you missed off, make rich people that little bit richer.
that is actually most legislation. what i should have written is most other legislation.
i agree that the rich are advantaged through the use of cleverly concieved laws.
-
She's hawt.
... post one.
This is the one that got her banned...
(http://i6.tinypic.com/14nied5.jpg)