Conservative commentator Bill Kristol said on Wednesday morning that white University of Oklahoma frat members who were recently caught on video singing a racist chant were parroting the language they had learned from rap music.
“When popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot of corporations profit off it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they’ve been hearing,” the Weekly Standard editor, who is white, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
He made the comments after co-host Mika Brzezinski, who is also white, criticized the rapper Waka Flocka Flame, who is black, for canceling a concert at the university despite using the N-word in his own songs.
“If you look at every single song, I guess you’d call it, that he’s written, it’s a bunch of garbage, full of N-words, full of F-bombs,” Brzezinski said. “It’s wrong. And he shouldn’t be disgusted with them; he should be disgusted with himself.”
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Oh My Goodness yes! The N-words and F-bombs! Now were getting down to the real source of racial friction in America! Dark people are using foul language, and normal white people are listening to that rock music and their culture is being corrupted! The real blame here lies with Liberals and their government schools!
“repeat what they’ve been hearing”
Really? Which song was that and who was the artist? I’m pretty sure there’s a total of zero rap songs out there in which some black guy raps about hanging himself and other black dudes and then rejoices in the existence of institutionalized exclusionary discrimination. But hey, Bill Kristol is clearly the expert here on black culture and its victimizing effects on white youth, so maybe I’m wrong.
I’m sure that makes perfect sense in Kristol’s narrow little cubbyhole of a world. But the fact is, they weren’t singing along with a popular song, they made up their own song which included references to lynching people.
Kristol career establishes that American punditry is completely idiot-proof. No amount of being wrong, no amount of dumb ideas, not amount of victim-blaming can remove his seat at the pundit table.
meanwhile I await the many examples of rapper sampling “if you’re happy and you know it.”
I have argued within the LGBT Community that, if you don’t want people using a particular word, you don’t get to use it either.
Or if a word is bad- it’s bad for everyone.
But that doesn’t excuse what these frat boys did. Quite frankly, what they did was disgusting.
Of course, I “love” the fact that they’ve been punished more harshly than 99% of the rapists on college campuses. Reminds me of the Catholic Church…kick those who support same-sex marriage out of the Church, but keep the pedophiles.