normalizing rape and racism with jokes

Hey everyone

So 2016 has obviously sucked. Badly. And there's a few things I want to say that have been on my mind since the election and afterwards.

Some of you know I was a big Beastie Boys fan back in the day, and I was incredibly saddened by the death of Adam Yauch. So you can imagine how upsetting it was to hear that Donald Trump supporters had vandalized his memorial with "Go Trump" and swastikas. Adam Yauch was Jewish, and a very spiritual man who cared about social justice.

And tonight Neo Nazis are doing the Nazi salute and yelling "Heil Trump" at their official gatherings.

We now have as a president elect, a man who was bragging about grabbing women by the pussy, and walked in on teenage girls in their dressing room. At his last rally, he had Ted Nugent up there with him, a man who wrote a song about raping a 13 year old girl. And Trump himself was accused of raping a 13 year old girl, but the girl got too many death threats and dropped her charges.

How did we get here? It's not like America suddenly turned into a bunch of racists, nazis and people thinking rape is okay. Those people were always there. Many people are saying "but now they have a voice".

But this all brings me back to the exact reason that this and other blogs were started, over 9 years ago, and that was because one band who always said "We hate racists and sexists and bigots", completely changed their tune and started behaving racist, sexist, and bigoted because they hooked up with Mindless Self Indulgence. I talked about this once before, it is called "Hipster racism" and "hipster sexism". When you are pretending that you're above racism and sexism and bigotry, but you are still writing songs called "F*ggot" under the guise of irony.

The people who put Trump into office always had a voice, and part of that voice, and part of the reason people are waving off these horrendous things, is because they are NORMALIZED in our society. They are thought of as funny for some people.

And why is that? "Ironic hipster racism" and rape jokes are a big part of the problem. White people who think it's "not fair" that white people aren't allowed to use the N word. White people who are "ironically" doing nazi salutes because it makes them seem "edgy." (Again MSI but those videos have been taken down.)

And obviously, adult men making songs about "Five Year Old Panty Shot" and lyrics like "cause my momma said to rape the very best one".

Obviously they are not the only band doing things like this, or profiting off using slurs in a "funny way" and making jokes about child rape. But they ARE the band that got this blog started so it all comes back to square one.

Well thanks, everyone who thought those "jokes" were funny. Because now they are real, and this is actually happening in America. We should not be surprised.

Usually I end by saying that I hope everyone is having a good year or will have a good year. But nothing good came out of this year at all so all I will say is that I sincerely hope we all survive, and that we will all maybe learn something from this.

Hipster racism

"If you have a problem with the word n*gger, please get on your telephones and call Method Man at his agency, at (redacted,) and when his agent and/or secretary therein picks up, I want you all to say 'I came to bring the pain...'"

Jimmy Urine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHQ8f1WuRs

The typical racist, "Well black people say it so that means it's okay if I do" argument.

Except no.

When a non-black person says the N-word, one of the top excuses given is that since black people use the slur, others should be able to as well. 

Why Black People Can Use the N-Word: A Perspective

That African Americans (and some Latinos) are able to use the N-word freely while others are not is, I take it, an obvious fact.  In one particular form, the N-word carries connotations of camaraderie.  The expression is used, as rapper Q-Tip has pontificated, “as a term of endearment.”  However, it is also widely known that this use is typically not available to non-black language users.  



White People Can Use the N-Word
White People Can Use the N-Word

 the real reason I don’t get the urge to slap a black person every time I hear them say the “N-word” is that the image of them holding a whip and screaming at me to pick cotton doesn’t pop into my head when they say it.  I don’t get the image of them telling me and “my kind” to go to the back of the bus.  If you’re white and you’re really wondering why so many blacks are against you saying the word, blame your ancestors.  They fucked it up for you.
And again, I’m now saying that you CAN say the word.  Just realize that saying it could come with consequences.  I have a group of female friends that call each other “Bitches.”  I’m smart enough to know though that if I walked up to one of them and said “Hey bitch”, I might get a knee to my nuts.  Same thing with white people who are hoping for the ability to use the N-word.  You can use it.  Use it as much as you want.  Go to downtown Baltimore wearing a “Nigga Please” shirt.  But after you get beaten to a pulp, I don’t want to hear you crying about a damn thing.



Jimmy Urine also uses the argument that he's "racist against white people." You cannot be racist against white people. Racism is about institutionalized oppression. he will just never get it. After all this time, what I still can't believe is how ignorant and yes, racist this band is.

And that's just the one song, mind. This says nothing about "F*ggot" and "Bitches" and "Five Year Old Panty Shot."

He (and his racist friends) can excuse this all they want. They are still all a group of ignorant, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic assholes.