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pidunk 07:17 pm UTC 07/21/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Racist lyrics - Barclay 06:45 pm UTC 07/21/07 |
> > You've got to take into account that Jim is writing in > character. Besides, racism is probably one of the Joker's > least despicable crimes! Seriously though, concerning > character, you're not gonna hear a song that Jim has > written for Bonnie Tyler with lyrics about 'coons' and > whatnot. Character! Barclay, excellent post. More than character, we are dealing with message. The Dream Engine/Neverland Historians with ostensibly the same monologue between them, have a message of a socio-political nature in a politically rebellious theme. One must understand that there has been a proliferation of racism disguised as political correctness in this American society during the past decades, where there is hush tones to be heard between the races of those very things which members of those races unabashadly call themselves in their private or safe-zone company. The division between cultures is so that much more severe because no crossing of the line into blending of tolerances is found....the segregation continues, in the form of the neutral words to be spoken in polite company, and narry shall a non-member of a race say those nasty words to or about a race, because of historical associations of those words in those races' pasts, but notwithstanding, it does mete out a sense of recognition of a true racist who does not and cannot adhere to the tenderness of avoidance of these things. Meaning that, when someone can't be polite, they are definitely socially deviant, and social deviant is anti-social, and that opens up that envelope of descriptions as to what they may be. If someone can't suppress racial descriptive or racial associative and thus inter-racially offensive words, there is something wrong with them. Are they racist? Are they general haters who have too much anger to contain? If there was not "political correctness" in society, for all the flaws that "political correctness" has, there would be an overrunning of one race against another race in far worse measures than we see today, and but for the suppression of those inter-racially offensive words, there would be no measure of differences between someone saying good things, and someone saying bad things. There are two sides to the monologue by The Historian, but each one leads to one conclusion. Let us try to let go of the need for such differentiation and laugh together at the jokes that race members laugh to, (Ted Danson was told by Whoopie it was okay to dress in blackface at the Roast and then a terrible rant came by everyone else about it, and that was wrong. Obviously, some race-members have no problems with the humor about their cultures, having overcome pain themselves and able to see humor, but the couple indeed did not consider where they stood in a society rife with pains and divisions of this sort, and this was a public action and a mistake of judgement.) or, let us just be kind to others and remember why we have to be. Let the race members have their history, the bad and the good of it, to find good in the bad of it and bad in the good of it and all permutations of it, and let people remember why they were downtrodden, without suppressing that they were ever downtrodden at all. With neutrality, these inter-racially offensive words would lose their importance, and fade from the lexicon. Let the words fade from the lexicon. Jim is not any form of racist. He is someone who embraces humanity with a love that matches my own love of people. | |
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