When Privilege Gets Incredibly Obtuse - Morning Joe and Redirecting Blame in the OU Incident
"Morning Joe Hosts Blame Rappers for SAE Frat's Racist Chants"
"After SAE brothers at the University of Oklahoma were caught on tape gleefully chanting racist slurs this weekend, you might have thought, who would defend these men? Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough answered that rhetorical question this morning by suggesting that rappers are actually to blame for SAE's behavior.
After first noting that Waka Flocka Flame has declined to perform at the University of Oklahoma because of SAE's racist behavior, Brzezinski preceded with the most outstanding performance of victim-blaming morning TV has ever seen. "If you look at every single song, I guess you call these, that [Waka Flocka's] written, it's a bunch of garbage," she said. "It's full of n-words, it's full of f-words. It's wrong. And he shouldn't be disgusted with them, he should be disgusted with himself."
Guest Bill Kristol then jumped in with this: "Popular culture becomes a cesspool, a lot corporations profit off of it, and then people are surprised that some drunk 19-year-old kids repeat what they've been hearing."
(The only thing SAE brothers were repeating, of course, was a chant passed down from bro to bro about how black people will never be invited to pledge their fraternity.)"
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http://gawker.com/morning-joe-hosts-blame-rappers-for-sae-frats-racist-ch-1690754211
This is what happens when exercising privilege to provide cover for bad behavior gets incredibly obtuse.
Yes, please stop gratuitous use of the "n" word in rap music, so we can expect:
(1) drunken college students that are members of a fraternity founded at the University of Alabama on March 9, 1856, to stop
(2) signing gleefully, and clapping in unison to, a remixed version of "If you're happy and you know it ..." using the terms "n*****" and a reference to lynching and
(3) specifically mention that said term used in (2) would never be in your fraternity.
Yes. Rap music is the reason those idiots chanted what they chanted on the bus.
Not the fact that they were likely taught the chant.
Not that it was likely routinely sung with the walls of the fraternity via tradition.
Not because of the place where the fraternity was founded and the era in which it was founded (the antebellum South).
Rap music's the reason.
Yeah. Right.
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