M.I.A. flips bird during Super Bowl halftime show

tha Professor wrote:

<quoted text>Using suppression of free speech to pay down the debt? Somehow I doubt the Founders would have approved.

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Yet it's not ok for people in this public forum to post their racist comments? Just because the comments are "inappropriate" doesn't mean they don't have the right to say them. Yet it's perfectly ok for this no namer to flick the bird on national tv?

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tha Professor wrote:

<quoted text>Racism isn't OK with me, no. Flipping the bird during the SuperBowl halftime show was pretty cool, though.

No idea what you think the two have to do with one another.

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tha Professor wrote:

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YOU were at the point of making the false and rather offensive claim that she was "flipping the bird to children." She may have done it thoughtlessly, but it's simply dishonest to assume that she was doing it "to children."
Trying to obfuscate your own distortion won't make it go away, any more than her gesture will (unfortunately).

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guest wrote:

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I don't think either are ok and they have nothing in common. I was actually referring to your previous quote about impropriety and 1st amendment rights, using the racist remarks as an example. Would take too long to try to explain to you and even then, no guaranteeing you would understand, so just disregard.

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Allofursheep wrote:

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Yes, my CLAIM was offensive, not her flipping off children.... That is most definately hilarious!

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tha Professor wrote:

<quoted text>IOW, you don't know what they hell you're even talking about. Understood.:)

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guest wrote:

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You're absolutely right! How dare I even try to challenge your faulty logic!:-p

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tha Professor wrote:

<quoted text>Why bother, when you can just say it and pretend it's true, huh?

Much easier for you.:)

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Morisson wrote:

America, one foot in a very uncertain future, one foot in the middle-ages. There are a lot of things you people should worry about, but not a middlefinger. I wonder when the land of the brave will ever become the land of the mature.

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Allofursheep wrote:

<quoted text>You're quite welcome and while correct in that most children know what flipping the bird means, and do it to each other and what not, does one condone it, or condemn it? I believe one's answer to that determines how I might judge that person, to whatever small degree it may be. It's much like when I saw Wu Tang Clan performing "Dangerous" (or whatever the title is to that particular song) to a bunch of 6 to 10 year olds on Nickelodeon years and years ago. It was INAPPROPRIATE!=-) I believe that the time and place for kids to start being exposed to "inappropriate" behavior starts just a little bit in Jr. High, building up through High School, then reaching an apex in college. It's how I did it, and it is the correct way!

tha Professor wrote:

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It's pretty funny when you simply repeat the same offensive comment and pretend that now it's somehow "true."
There's not one shred of evidence that she intended to "flip off children." By your, uh, "logic," if someone flips off another person in the street and is seen by a child, that means he was "flipping off the child."
Utterly idiotic.

Say what wrote:

Why can't black women get on stage to perform without showing a boob, or their crotch, or flipping people off, or swearing? Is it because they have very little talent, and have to create a scene to get attention?

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No, I think it's because they have so little talent and self respect, they have to do something to get attention.

Ngalungalu wrote:

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Black people have no talent? That just shows you have no brain.

see the Light wrote:

<quoted text>Don't think that person was saying Black people have no talent. Just that person was trying to get attention by doing what she did. You automatically grouped all people with one not the person who commented.

Say what wrote:

Why can't black women get on stage to perform without showing a boob, or their crotch, or flipping people off, or swearing? Is it because they have very little talent, and have to create a scene to get attention?