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NPR rates a song, and the rightwing goes crazy, shrieking "Defund! Defund!"
Just keep listening to Toby Keith and watching Newsmax TV. The adults are in charge now.
BTW, Cardi B is trash, and so is her song, but I noticed TIME also rated it one of the top songs of the year. Perhaps they rate this based on popularity, I don't know, nor do I really care.
Prepare to be adulted into a depression, new wars, curtailing of free speech and a sycophantic media telling you it's all good.
You hit the nail on the head. They get to decide what is offensive now. They are essentially taking away our rights.
In the end, we all decide personally and communally what is offensive and what we choose to do about things that offend us.
But let’s remember what “offend” means.
The dictionary defines offend as a verb:
To cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful.
Ex. "viewers said they had been offended by bad language"
To cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful. Nothing in the Constitution about that, and there is no law protecting you from being offended except your own personal filter and the people with whom you choose to associate. If someone or something offends you, you have the choice not to be in contact with what offends you and surround yourself with what comforts you. That’s what I mean when I say we decide personally and as a community what offends us, and avoid those things as much as possible.
No one is taking away your rights because there is no right to not be offended.
What about the proud credo of the right: “F your feelings?” Or is that only when it’s the libs being offended?
Why can't NPR stand on its own? Are you afraid of ads?
I hate ads, but that's besides the point. Ad-based media aren't in the business of making media content, they're in the business of making predictable, targeted audiences for the ad buyers. When you listen to them, you're the product being sold. This is the reason 24/7 newschannels are so incredibly abysmal.
I think it's a terrible pick for #1 personally, but not because it's somehow offensive or 'misogynistic' (neither of which are true). It's just not a very good song and is far worse than any other of Cardi B's previous hit singles. A lot of the music critics these days are just going for what's culturally relevant rather than what's actually good.
You're comparing the WAP song to the Toby Keith lyrics and video. I don't think you can find 10 lines or more than one minute of video in WAP that wouldn't be [Bleeped] on this site.
You're comparing the WAP song to the Toby Keith lyrics and video. I don't think you can find 10 lines or more than one minute of video in WAP that wouldn't be [Bleeped] on this site.
I was responding specifically to this:
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Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd
I do enjoy Toby Keiths songs of good times, slices of American life and Patriotism. What I don't enjoy are "songs" like this NPR top pick that objectifies women and enforces the theme of women using their bodies and sexuality to get what they want.
This song is Toby Keith offering a woman money/perks in exchange for having sex with him.
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