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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
I'd like to see the context he said it in before I pass judgement.
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Yes context is great. In many aspects of life(architectural context is something that many people seem to ignore in my experience), but ehhh, I don't think too much context is needed here. He just flat out said it. I would still like to see the context but this is a pretty blatant statement here. If Leonardo DiCaprio said this about white people, or....I dunno, Michael Fassbender, they would be ****ed.
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Originally Posted by blastingas10
Well I think that's bull****. Black people can be every bit as racist as white people, I have black people who will attest to that.
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Yeah **** that. I don;t like pretention, and I don't like racism, and this was racism. It is racist to actually ignore the racism in the statement. Weirdly enough.
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Originally Posted by AwwSugar
Okay we can disagree on that but it wasn't racism.
He wasn't saying **** ALL YOU WHITE PEOPLE AND LATINOS BLACK PEOPLE ARE BETTER YOU ****ERS.
He was just kind of... I don't know delusional about black people and their talents.
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Lol, never said he was saying that. What he was saying is something more level headed, and thus something that he actually believes and isn't just a mad rant. Its as bad as a white person saying that white people invented everything great.
So a delusional white racist can't be excused? Because it is pretty clear that they are delusional.
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Originally Posted by blastingas10
He can be racist all he wants, that's fine. I just think to double standard is a bunch of ****. I'm not convinced there isn't one.
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Exactly, but the fact that he( a celebrity, not some lunatic racist ) is making these statements to the public, he is alienating his "white" fans to a certain degree and encouraging racism in his "black" fans to a certain extent