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Disrespectful to whom?
by scohesc 6y ago
Disrespectful to whom?
- happytoexplain 6y agoCan you elaborate? The parent didn't say it was disrespectful toward individuals, though they may have meant Cain, since he was black. But regardless of whether that intention is true, the parent's point (that making a pun explicitly about chain gangs to label your social/political group is disrespectful) seems like a reasonable opinion, that you may challenge specifically.
- adrianmonk 6y agoI have no opinion on whether it actually is disrespectful, and I'm not weighing in on that. However, as a point of conversational order, if someone states that something is disrespectful, it's better if they say who they think is being disrespected. Otherwise, the statement is so vague and ill-defined it's hard to know whether to agree or disagree. In other words, if you don't know what is actually meant, how can you challenge it specifically? The only way I know is to guess at all the possible meanings, then address all of them case by case, which seems a little silly.
- rchaud 6y agoTo Cain, obviously. He is a Purdue MS Comp Sci graduate and worked in the Navy in a civilian capacity. He has no criminal record, and was a successful entrepreneur, something that is highly under-represented in media and popular culture portrayals of African Americans. Depiction of criminality however is far from under-represented, and linking his name to forced labour in prison camps is just beyond tasteless.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoPity he will always be remembered as the idiot who chose not to wear a mask and embraced it in his tweets and died because of it.