Ban Rap Music?

[zappasguitar]

the left is running around solely accusing the right of using foul language, while ignoring the violence spewed in their ranks. the sheriff wants the vitriol to stop. so, do we just stop at political speech, or do go further and ban all hate speech?

makes all the difference in the world huh....no one starts a thread bashing it...i wonder why

go find me posts where the left is specifically calling out hate speech on the left since you think the thread is moving the goal post....i don't want a generalized "there is harmful rhetoric on both sides" i want a specific call out, because you obviously got so horny over trying to catch me in a lie, but you failed to understand the difference between a generic statement and a specific call out

try again, maybe someday you'll succeed

Hysterical.

You didn't make the distinction of wanting evidence of a Liberal STARTING a thread until I proved your first, GENERALIZED statement to be a big fat lie.

You got pwned again and subsequently you tried to move the goalposts rather than admit you were wrong.

 

[Onceler]

lol...if you look at the post zappy used for onceler, it is onceler only saying it exists on both sides AFTER i called him out for not saying anything about the left

just as i've always said, he will rarely, if ever, condemn the left until called on his partisan hackmanship....and he hasn't specifically called out anyone, just generally said it exists on both sides, but its the rights fault and the rights responsibility to change it

It's one thing to not be able to read at all, but to go around the board bragging about?

Not what I'd do, but hey, that's me...

 

[cawacko]

I haven't really seen anyone suggesting banning speech, either, and if they did, they're being bogus.

I do think political leaders should be more responsible w/ some of the images & rhetoric they use. But they certainly have a right to use crosshairs & urge constituents to arm themselves....

I hear you on the rhetoric thing. One word that is not as near dangerous in its rhetoric but gets used often is 'fight'. I believe it is taught in Politics 101 that every politician must tell voters they wil 'fight' for them. Of course people recognize they don't literaly mean they are going to start throwing blows though it is conceivable a mentaly insane whacked out person could literally go around fighting people thinking they are heading a politicians call. Of course fighting and killing are two different things.

But I'm with you in that rhetoric does seem to be turned up high. It does seem like going back in history we've always had some crazy political rhetoric though. I wonder if it can ever be controlled becaused politics is such a passionate issue?

 

[Phantasmal]

As a rap/hip-hop fan it hurts me to say this but is it time for rap music to be banned? After today's actions we know any references to violence cannot be tolerated. Rap music with its calls to murder police, women and white people can no longer be tolerated as freedom of expression. We know people take symbolic statements literally and seriously.

I have tears in my eyes as I type this. R.I.P. Hip Hop.

I have always thought that words have consequences and it is why I have always spoke out against music that promotes violence in any form. When I think of hip hop, I think of Justin Timberlake. When I think of gangster rap, I think of the old Wu Tang music.

I don't think you are getting rid of hip hop that easily.

 

[Phantasmal]

Yeah I was just screwing around writing that. I love hip hop it can't be banned. A few years back there was the guy who shot a cop in Texas when he got pulled over and he had 2 Pac in his tape deck and there was talk that 2 Pac's music led this guy to act like he did. I'm not claiming moral equivalence between political rhetoric and rap but the claim that certain rhetoric leads to violence is certainly not a new one.

There will be those mentally ill people who do listen to Tu Pac and act on his words, does that mean that we should ban all rap music or even Tu Pac's, I don't think so, because the majority won't act on his words. Do words have consequences, yes, I believe they do and that is why people in high places should be careful about what symbolism they use to tell a story or to make a point, because it could have consequences.

 

[Airstrip One]

What if only mentally ill people listen to TuPac?

 

[Phantasmal]

What if only mentally ill people listen to TuPac?

Ahahahaha, then I think there would be a lot more killin goin on then there was or is.