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Hip Hop Made Him Do It!

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And the idiots begin to blabber:

The older brother who was killed and suspected in the Boston bombings was deep into hip hop, and it appears he belonged to a fan website that touted that genre of music. Tamerlan Tsarnaev has an email associated with the website, “Real-hiphop.com.” The site provides information about hip hop artists and upcoming DVD releases. What’s interesting … hip hop lyrics are notoriously violent and often degrading to women.

Given that I’m older than Tsarnaev, I have had more time to listen to hip hop of which I’m a great fan. It is a wonder that I am yet to blow anybody up.

Let’s see how soon video games will be made part of the discussion.

Jeez, tabloids are so predictable.

34 responses to “Hip Hop Made Him Do It!”

  1. Roberto Severino Avatar
    Roberto Severino

    I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and can even appreciate much of the hip hop made between the late 1970s and even the early 2000s and I’ve never had any desire to blow up buildings or people. That’s just as stupid as saying that old cartoons like the Looney Tunes have made children drop anvils on other people and just a weak excuse for censorship of history and political correctness or thinking that people will take the racial stereotypes seriously without realizing the historical context of which these films were made.

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      Yes, like this ridiculous attempt to censor Mark Twain! That was an instance of intense idiocy.

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  2. David Gendron Avatar
    David Gendron

    METAL MUSIC!

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      MARILYN MANSON!!

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      1. David Gendron Avatar
        David Gendron

        SUBLIMINAL LYRICS!

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        1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
          bloggerclarissa

          CONDITIONED BY SOCIETY!!!

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      2. thevenerablecorvex Avatar
        thevenerablecorvex

        SATANIC BACKWARDS MESSAGES!

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        1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
          bloggerclarissa

          YOUNG PEOPLE THESE DAYS ARE HOPELESS!!!

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      3. David Gendron Avatar
        David Gendron

        IT’S ABORTION! WE KILLED SO MUCH BABIES, SO LIFE IS DEVALUED!

        http://www.shakesville.com/2013/04/abortion-and-boston-bombings.html

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      4. David Gendron Avatar
        David Gendron

        M. I. T.= MASSIVE INSTITUTION OF TERRORISM!

        I found it!

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  3. Leah Jane Avatar
    Leah Jane

    Excuse me while I yawn at their banal predictability and stupid generalizations and go blast Cakes Da Killa, Mykki Blanco, and Lil’ Kim to calm down.

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      How do they manage not to get bored with repeating the same boring explanation bizillion times in a row?

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      1. Leah Jane Avatar
        Leah Jane

        It’s comforting, like a security blanket, if the threads were woven from complacency, laziness, and intellectual dishonesty.

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        1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
          bloggerclarissa

          “It’s comforting, like a security blanket, if the threads were woven from complacency, laziness, and intellectual dishonesty.”

          – Wow. This is really brilliant. You are a very very brilliant person.

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      2. Benoni Avatar
        Benoni

        People never get tired of having their opinions reinforced. Reporters are more than happy to provide this service for them. They might be bored of repeating the same boring explanation again and again, but I bet they’re not bored of picking up the paycheck.

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      3. David Gendron Avatar
        David Gendron

        M. I. T.= MASSIVE INSTITUTION OF TERRORISM!

        I found it! 😉

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  4. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    This is, of course, incredibly stupid… just as the bomber himself was (honestly, he was a loser seven ways to Sunday, his life was nasty, brutish and short…. and let’s be thankful for the last at any rate)

    But I’ve gotta say, I’ve never been able to get into hip hop post …. 1992? (give or take a few months). Most of it sounds like attempts to make music with dentist drills and the incredibly nihilistic and dehumanizing lyrics make me hate the world.

    I totally get the attraction to dark/non-harmonic music and/or soul cleansing aggression but prefer classic (or early 80’s American) punk (in carefully controlled doses) for that.

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  5. djiril Avatar
    djiril

    Isn’t hip-hop one of the most popular art forms in the United States?

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    1. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      art? (dismissive sniff)

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      1. djiril Avatar
        djiril

        I knew someone would say that. I’m not exactly a fan of the genre, but I do have some fond memories about some of my High School classmates who would sometimes start rapping in the halls about whatever was on their minds.
        I do not think any of them have become terrorists yet.

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  6. David Gendron Avatar
    David Gendron

    I hope this is a fake…

    Actual 4th grade science test from a school in SC

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      This one is even better: http://imgur.com/a/pPJmj#1

      I think it’s a fake, though. Maybe some homeschooler came up with this crapola.

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      1. djiril Avatar
        djiril

        Pretty sure it’s real, and we have this guy to thank for it:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Ham

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    2. David Gendron Avatar
      David Gendron

      http://i.imgur.com/5DdXi8z.jpg 😉

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  7. N G Avatar
    N G

    Actually let’s blame household appliances. With all the discussions on pressure cookers this week with respect to the Boston bombings, Macy’s has grasped the promotional moment with a special on pressure cookers.

    http://observer.com/2013/04/boston-bombing-macys-pressure-cookers-daily-news-star-tribune-cape-cod-times/

    God bless advertisers – Mad Men all.

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  8. thevenerablecorvex Avatar
    thevenerablecorvex

    Obviously it’s exposure to ambient electromagnetic fields in modern society which is CAUSING OUR CHILDREN TO FLIP OUT AND BECOME BLOODTHIRSTY MURDERERS.

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    1. David Gendron Avatar
      David Gendron

      😉

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  9. David Gendron Avatar
    David Gendron

    Shame on you, Rand Paul!

    http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/22/after-boston-bombing-rand-paul-suggests?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29

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  10. musteryou Avatar
    musteryou

    The passive model…not even dialectical: an outside force made me do it.

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    1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
      bloggerclarissa

      Good point. People like hearing these explanations because they offer an opportunity to avoid responsibility for their own actions in a similar way.

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      1. musteryou Avatar
        musteryou

        Modern types are not ashamed of being very passive. I haven’t fully got to the bottom of why that is. I think part of it is the danger of acting in a morally and socially ambiguous situation. That must be a large part of it. Along with this is the fact that the strongest position a person can have in a capitalist society is that of consumer. Being a consumer is definitively passive. Also, there is the metaphysical tradition of associating goodness with inactivity and evil with activity. In relation to this, the less you do, the less culpable you are of “sinning”. Finally, there is the psychological fact that it is easier to take the line of least resistance than to go in any other direction. Consequently, passivity becomes the norm, and taking responsibility or choosing one’s own way is unusual.

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        1. bloggerclarissa Avatar
          bloggerclarissa

          The highest level of activity for many people is choosing a collective identity and then allowing that identity to dictate their behavior in every way. To themselves, they look highly active and resourceful.

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          1. musteryou Avatar
            musteryou

            Yes, I think you are right. Actually it’s one of the first things I noticed when I migrated here. I’m currently making a chain of videos, for the sake of archiving my knowledge about previous ways of doing things. Most people simply have no idea that there are, or have been, other ways of thinking/feeling/behaving than those they have embraced.

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  11. David Gendron Avatar
    David Gendron

    http://www.infowars.com/alert-spider-man-linked-with-boston-bombers/

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