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Looks to me like Feldman wanted it both ways. He wanted to be the bad boy. He wanted to push the envelope. But he got slapped for it, and now he wants to say he didn't mean anything bad by it. Well, tough. That's not how it works. With racial issues in this country, sometimes when you start pushing people's buttons, they push back. He's going to have to deal with it now.
And with regard to the fact that this video was "exclusive" and never meant to be seen on V-CAST -- that's not the point, either. The point is that Verizon had made a distribution deal with a guy whose best known work to date was a five-minute blackface routine called "TechNigga." Someone figured out that this was bad P.R. for the company and pulled the plug. That's how it goes.
Oh, and can we stop the Carlin comparisons, please? TechNigga's more on the Andrew Dice Clay level.
* The TechNigga videos were never on VCAST. It was to be exclusive content.
* Therefore there was nothing to protest.
* That didn't stop Project Islamic Hope from protesting. They're a professional protesting group.
* They protest easy positions, they have no guts to stand up for tough cases.
* PIH is essentially cultural political correctness patrol.
* That's bad.
* Loren wasn't making fun of black people.
* Loren was making fun of bloggers.
* I agree with the George Carlin angle.
* PIH is playing the part of the Catholics in the Catholics vs. Opie and Anthony and Jack Thompson in Jack vs. Grand Theft Auto.
* People are hypocrites for not calling these protesters on this.
The only problem is, it isn't politically correct, so no one is going to get behind it. If only Loren had picked on Republicans, he'd still have a Verizon contract.
LOL wow -- care to explain that one?
Like I said, I didn't find it a particularly hilarious video, and the only reason I've analyzed it is because of the controversy, not the humor value. If he spent a bit more time writing the jokes, his point might have been better made.
I don't think Loren's truly a racist though. It just doesn't scan.
I'm currently writing my own rant on this as I want to make myself clear and use all the words I want to, on my own blog :)
Yeah. And they say I'm unduly cynical.
Of course that moron had the right to make a racist "TechNigga" video, but activists have the right to lobby corporations not to promote that sort of garbage. Why do you have a problem with the latter but not the former?
Maybe that Jew Feldman has learned a much-needed lesson.
are you calling me the asshole here?
If tha tis the case then you'd better take a minute out of your self-rightous life and re-read the post again because I did not suggest that and really who's being the racist here you pompous twat.
You mentioned "the hypocrisy of the very people moaning about the loss of someone like George Carlin and the need to push boundaries but who in turn get pissy over Loren’s bluntness about the fallacies within social media," which amounts to a false charge of hypocrisy as well as a repetition of an inane comparison.
You did, in fact, suggest such a comparison with your above statement by putting Carlin's boundary-pushing in the same category of Feldman's hatred and you should be ashamed about it. READ IT AGAIN.
And anyway anyone who lowers themselves to blogging about this on their own site is, like you, an asshole.
As for the name calling I'm not the one who resorted to the racist style continatation of Jew as a way to denigrate a person as you did with Loren - I just called you a pompous twat which you continue to prove yourself to be.
So now, are you saying that you don't agree with his view, even though you bothered to mention it the way you did in your post?
You are spreading misinformation and stupid arguments. Don't you feel a little responsible for that?
And what do you mean by "pompous twat?"
Do you hate women? Otherwise why would you use language like that, even to refer to someone who was making you look stupid?
As for spreading misinformation and stupid arguments it is too bad that you missed what the article was about in the first place but then I guess that shouldn't be a surprise considering you hide your real name and think it is okay to use racial innuendo to insult a human being.
In regards to looking stupid - na I don't think so. You have a long way to go to do that but you are doing a find job of showing yourself in that light.
You didn't answer; I will ask again, do you hate women?
All those 15 years prove is that you are old.
And as he himself is saying: ” It’s not insulting an ETHNIC group, but a SOCIAL group, in this case: rappers/ganstas.” I am in a complete agreement with him here, and have a hard time understanding where the racism comes in, or is it just the fact that a white man used the ”N-Word” and that where not social accepted? Well if that is the case then we are not talking about racism but just different standards of what people is ”Allowed” by the social norms to do, and as I said before it is the comedians job to push the limited of that social norm.