After she hits on the doob at 2:47, all heck breaks loose
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I never said, or thought. that the video is racist. i never even said WE were being racist. but some of us were mocking it. and our reasons were largely cultural. Smoking from a hookah isn't the same as getting high, and its not as though she literally was doing it. the piece is telling a story. and that gesture added to the characterization.
so, I'll restate. I never pulled the racist card. though i reference my concern that this could become racist, if we were not careful in our comments.
and I don't see a reason to make a thread for that video. other than to mock it.
since no one here seems to have any interest in interpretive dance.
And yes, I think this lady has lovely eyes.
And since I found out I can change my name at will... I may very well abuse the option! xD!
so, I'll restate. I never pulled the racist card. though i reference my concern that this could become racist, if we were not careful in our comments.
and I don't see a reason to make a thread for that video. other than to mock it.
since no one here seems to have any interest in interpretive dance.
And yes, I think this lady has lovely eyes.
And since I found out I can change my name at will... I may very well abuse the option! xD!
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Hiphoptimus Rhyme said:
Regardless of everything else, if you can't maintain an identity, you're going to be sorry. No threat intended or implied, I'm just saying you'll be sorry. Few things in the world are as valuable as trust. Many might say it's the only valuable thing, along with honor. Fidget with those qualities at your own peril.
I'm not sure what you think you accomplish by changing your name, but I'm sure it's not worth it. It doesn't afford you the anonymity you think it does, and if you're not going to own up for your beliefs, how do you do anything else? It's ok to change your beliefs - that's not the problem many think it is - but you do have to own up to them. Otherwise, you lose trust and credibility, and nobody wants to talk to you anymore. That's just death.
Yeah. one would have to be very stupid to change their name, yet keep their Display picture, their HUMOROUS display picture. that most everyone here knows is MINE.
And to keep posting in a manner that is characteristically mine.
its clearly a Joke.
thinking its anything different. is paranoid.
which really makes everything you just told me totally irrelevant. in a mass of many people changing their names to humorous things, I Discovered I could do the same. and then changed it so something so odd, that when combined with it being my avatar, how else could it NOT BE ME.
As for changing my views? how did I do that? I didn't do that. plain and simple.
I don't "get" the Video, I don't enjoy it. but on the same token I know if I put all the work she has into her performance into something I had done. and I knew that people were mocking it. I'd be a bit hurt.
And to keep posting in a manner that is characteristically mine.
its clearly a Joke.
thinking its anything different. is paranoid.
which really makes everything you just told me totally irrelevant. in a mass of many people changing their names to humorous things, I Discovered I could do the same. and then changed it so something so odd, that when combined with it being my avatar, how else could it NOT BE ME.
As for changing my views? how did I do that? I didn't do that. plain and simple.
I don't "get" the Video, I don't enjoy it. but on the same token I know if I put all the work she has into her performance into something I had done. and I knew that people were mocking it. I'd be a bit hurt.
its pretty clear I'm not having fun, I asked if we could leave mocking this woman alone. and everyone started competing for who could feel the most righteous. I'm not trying to win. but I am made uncomfortable by people mocking this woman. And all I asked is if we could not.
everything was Read into what I said. not read from what i said.
this thread seems to have been started ONLY to mock this gal, this gal is not the Wenge Mutilator. she's different, not stupid. and I feel uncomfortable.
Now I'm going to go change my name back. I don't feel too funny right now.
everything was Read into what I said. not read from what i said.
this thread seems to have been started ONLY to mock this gal, this gal is not the Wenge Mutilator. she's different, not stupid. and I feel uncomfortable.
Now I'm going to go change my name back. I don't feel too funny right now.
this will be my last post in here, because i really don't mean to turn anything into an argument (or uncomfortable discussion), but i think you're looking at it the wrong way. i think if anything is being mocked it's her mocking drug use (if that's what she was implying in the dance). if i were watching this in person i probably would have loved it, but i think it made for a boring youtube video. that's all i meant by my comment. i'm pretty sure that's what everybody else was saying too, but i won't speak for anybody else
I wasn't to bothered by your comment, I was just originally worried that this thread would go to a bad place, and instead of my comment pushing this thread away from that. it plummeted into it a breakneck speeds.
she's smoking from a hookah, thats what she's Miming. and its something thats socially acceptable when given context.
she's smoking from a hookah, thats what she's Miming. and its something thats socially acceptable when given context.
I really hate the whole righteous attitude that certain members get around here. Hopefully someone will ask some technical questions so that those guys can rattle off some specs or techniques to feel relevant and not have to resort to scolding and trying to impose some sort of biggotted views on people.
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back2thefutre
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I smoke hookah :headbang:
AGWAN-O-MATIC said:
Actually I think your stance is a little more on the self defense side of things. I was glad to see your post because this thread did kind of come off as a " look at this chick doing some strange cultural dance. Let's trash it because we don't get it". I'd like to think I got what you were saying. The hookah is part of her culture and to turn her gestures into an act of simulated illicit drug use would be disrespecting her heritage.
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back2thefutre said:
I do too, and I love many of the flavors of shisha they make for the hookah, especially blackberry.
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