Absolutely no one who is giving you shit would be giving you shit if the point of your book was that popular hip-hop acts have a problem with misogynistic imagery and lyrics Everyone fucking knows that https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1286255987767357440 …
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It's shit It would still be shit if we subtracted the racial element (although, let's be clear, the racial element obviously matters a fuckton)
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If a white guy wrote a memoir sneering indiscriminately about "redneck culture" being inherently self-destructive and anti-intellectual and credited his embrace of Great Books and elite values with helping him overcome his background unlike his benighted peers, it would also suck
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A white guy did write that book His name is JD Vance, the book is called Hillbilly Elegy, and it sucks and he sucks
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It arguably doesn't suck *as much* because the race thing is in fact a really big huge important thing, and "rednecks" and "hillbillies" really are not in the same crosshairs as Black people in our society But it still fucking sucks
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Every conservative take about how poverty and oppression are a group of people's own fault "because of their toxic culture" fucking sucks
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And, yes, to entertain the whole "SJW hypocrisy" argument - no "SJW critique" of bad media is intended as some kind of escape hatch from criticism for your own actions
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Nobody who argues about the powerful impact racist stereotypes in media have on society would actually argue it's okay for a racist cop who assaults a Black suspect to blame his actions on watching too many racist cop shows
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None of them would praise someone writing a memoir saying that I wouldn't, anyway
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Like, has he listened to a Digable Planets record???
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