You’ll notice the title isn’t “Why I Blame All My Personal Failings on Hip Hop Culture.”
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No, but it's describing the story of how he "beat" his personal failings as "beating hip-hop culture"
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Did his “personal failings” appear out of thin air? I believe it’s describing the story of how he struggled with certain cultural norms and pressures he ultimately decided weren’t good or productive, in pursuit of ones he felt were better.
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Yeah, that's what I said
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Replying to @arthur_affect @StrangelEdweird and
He’s not allowed to examine his own cultural viewpoints and evaluate them?
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Replying to @SecularAnimaI @StrangelEdweird and
Not when it's attacking a whole bunch of other people and their "culture" as somehow being the cause of his own shitty actions
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He’s not attacking anyone. He’s examining his own upbringing and desire to adhere to the social and cultural norms he was surrounded by, which he found to be negative. That’s his experience. It’s a memoir. That’s the point of it.
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Replying to @StrangelEdweird @arthur_affect and
And it would be disingenuous to act as though you aren’t aware of those cultural and social norms and pressures he’s referring to. You know the behavior he’s talking about, and you know that it gets glorified. He’s not the first to point that out.
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Yes I know, I've listened to Rush Limbaugh before
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Have you listened to Barack Obama before? Because he has talked about the cultural incentives even he experienced, that reading and doing well in school was considered “acting white.” What did you think he was talking about?
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I think that I disagree with Obama on many things and this is one of them, but at least unlike people who've made similar arguments like Bill Cosby and Thomas Chatterton Williams, Obama is not personally a perpetrator of violence against women
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