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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:02 PM Original message |
Al Sharpton: Eddie Griffin Dropped for Dropping N-Bomb |
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Stand and Fight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good, good, good... |
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TheUniverse (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. This reeks of censorship. |
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tkmorris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The crowd obviously doesn't agree with you |
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TheUniverse (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Certain opinions carry more weight than others? |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Not censorship if it was a "private event". Plus he got paid -- just sent home early. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:17 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. You don't think that's censorship? |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. He wasn't cut off for the ideas he was expressing. He was cut off for obscenity. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. No, he was cut off for the ideas he was expressing. |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. He's paid to say what they want him to say |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I don't think censorship is ever good or useful. |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 08:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. Well, I mean, technicallly you can say he was censored. But if it was not an event open to |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Why, you anti-acidic Nazi! Clearly you hate our marching freedoms. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 05:21 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. If a principal at a private school... |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 05:25 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Right, because that is a case of censoring an idea in an academic environment. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 05:41 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. You just used the word "nigger" twice. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 01:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. and on purpose |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Amen. It's about context. Words don't matter. What can words do? Nothing. Fuck words! |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. It was a private event, and Griffin was a paid performer |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:28 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Uh, what? |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. Good! |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. Well that's really, really dumb. |
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NOLALady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. Great! |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. ! |
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AspenRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. Finally...the community is taking it seriously. |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-04-07 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
17. Did anyone bother to listen to Griffin's act before they hired him? |
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KaptBunnyPants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 12:36 AM Response to Original message |
21. Dumbass. |
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Flabbergasted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-05-07 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
23. "We ... will not allow our culture to go backwards..." Yes! |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
27. I thought Griffin's career was over after Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-06-07 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
28. surely these people knew his brand of comedy before they booked him? |
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