That’s not to say white folks shouldn’t watch the show. Quite the opposite. I am of the mind it’s important to ‘get’ that which is foreign to you.
I think it makes sense to 'get' the arguments behind the show, but not to spend hours watching some shitty TV just to say that you understand something. I don't watch Glee or... I don't know what people watch these days, Dancing with the Stars? Anyway, shit TV is shit TV. Who cares?
I saw the trailer and decided based on that. If it's widely recommended by people I trust, I guess I will give it a shot. And maybe it's one of those cases where the trailer does a horrible job of promoting the show.
But I think it's quite likely to meet my definition of 'shit'.
I write for that website you see posted above there because I think it's better to try and reach out to people like you and help explain the situation, and I get a lot of racist shit in return. I'm like, you are NOT helping.
I'm not white and I don't think you should be embarrassed. A title like that is INTENDED to trigger people. It's how the show is getting it's word out. I mean, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to.
The whole point is that stupid white people will get triggered for a title that is used ironically. It's great. It's working exactly like how Trump won the election!
Nah, I can see why you'd think that, what with the "Nao" being super close to "Mao" and all that. But what you have to keep in mind is that lots of spastic white forever-kids intentionally misspell shit under the misguided belief that being dumb means being cool.
It was total jibberish. My original post was random and didn't make any sense. I was just posting random drama memes for points. When he got triggered and responded to it, I thought it was hilarious and decided to post more random memes.
Just so we're on the same page, drama constantly posts
Mayocide
Kys
Reason Trump won
Although, I'm pretty sure this actual explanation is going to get me down voted to oblivion. I'm OK with that, bring it bitches.
Ehh, it was clearly a marketing ploy, the name. I'm more disappointed that people didn't see past that fact, and just fed more into our outrage culture.
Sam is a militant radio host who takes to the college airwaves daily to rant and rave and shout about what white people do wrong. In essence, she’s Rush Limbaugh.
What Sam does on her show is basically was Limbaugh does. She has good points but it's lost in rage and vitriol and condescension, ultimately limiting her point and her audience to only people who already agree with her.
Nnononono! You don't understand! He was purposefully unfunny, not because he was an edgelord hack, but because he wanted to challenge himself and then win the audience back, very brave and funny
"Oh, Bill. I wish your grandmother was alive to hear that new pussy eating bit in your act. When your glasses go all sideways, she would have lived that.
lol you expect the typical /r/drama poster to have knowledge of context or understand satire.
Man, it's mid-April. Half the posters in here are new users who are only able to post because their teachers have given up on them and if they're being shitty on the internet they can't be fucking up the classroom.
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what is it with people whomst call themselves "libertarians" now and being perpetually outraged on behalf of the "traditional" side in culture-war bullshit? like where does that come from?
I don't think I was communicating outrage, but Libertarians primarily come from conservative ideologies that think racism is 'over' and stuff like this show is just collectivist dreck. Which it's not.
Oh, I didn't read your article, I just assumed its content based on where it was submitted. Why the fuck did you submit it here, do you think this is the subreddit for, like, dramatic productions?
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n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
I'm confused
n/a newcomer_ts 2017-04-14
That's a why you posted the link.
n/a NGC_6960 2017-04-14
You can stop pretending my (((friend)))
n/a lesboautisticweeabo 2017-04-14
If the show is about black insividualism, then why is anoter race in the title?
n/a ImNotPayingFullPrice 2017-04-14
If the movie is about Ben Stiller, why's it called There's Something About MARY?
I think we're onto something here.
n/a lesboautisticweeabo 2017-04-14
That film weren't about Ben Miller, that guy just acted in it.
n/a 39flws 2017-04-14
This is a very good post. I would give gold, but I don't want to fund the tennis loving freemason shills behind reddit.
n/a lesboautisticweeabo 2017-04-14
I can't blame you. Reddit is for fags anyway
n/a ImNotPayingFullPrice 2017-04-14
Now that Roscar Obertson's triple double record has fallen, what's the next major sports record to be beaten?
Walt Chamberlin's 100 points? John DiMaggio's hitting streak? Bernie Sanders' rushing record? Probably Saul Young's win career wins, tbh
n/a walkthisway34 2017-04-14
I legit laughed out loud @ the Bernie Sanders one.
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-04-14
Because Black people define themselves on how White people view them.
n/a gary_bussy 2017-04-14
Every day I curse Yakub for creating white people.
n/a DoctorFahrenheit 2017-04-14
If only Moses had finished them off with that dynamite.
n/a cultish_alibi 2017-04-14
I think it makes sense to 'get' the arguments behind the show, but not to spend hours watching some shitty TV just to say that you understand something. I don't watch Glee or... I don't know what people watch these days, Dancing with the Stars? Anyway, shit TV is shit TV. Who cares?
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
How do you know it's Shit TV. It's not even on yet?
n/a cultish_alibi 2017-04-14
I saw the trailer and decided based on that. If it's widely recommended by people I trust, I guess I will give it a shot. And maybe it's one of those cases where the trailer does a horrible job of promoting the show.
But I think it's quite likely to meet my definition of 'shit'.
n/a Crackertron 2017-04-14
That's why I listen to gangster rap.
n/a ur_mom_IoI 2017-04-14
be careful with that
n/a Crackertron 2017-04-14
Oh man that hits way too close to home.
n/a Ennui2778 2017-04-14
Damn, you would have been super cool in 2008.
n/a cultish_alibi 2017-04-14
Wait til you hear my controversial opinions on Justin Bieber.
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
I'm embarrassed to be white when other white people act like triggered faggots over a tv show name.
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
RIGHT?!
I write for that website you see posted above there because I think it's better to try and reach out to people like you and help explain the situation, and I get a lot of racist shit in return. I'm like, you are NOT helping.
Blarg
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
Are you Paul Meekin, reformed liberal?
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
Still a Liberal but a little more open-minded than I once was.
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-04-14
Stop writing, cut off your hands and pull out your tongue
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
I don't think I can pull out my tongue with the bloody stumps my hands used to be.
Can I go tongue than hands?
n/a CucksLoveTrump 2017-04-14
GOOD point
You can keep your tongue but you gotta lose the eyes
n/a joncash 2017-04-14
I'm not white and I don't think you should be embarrassed. A title like that is INTENDED to trigger people. It's how the show is getting it's word out. I mean, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to.
The whole point is that stupid white people will get triggered for a title that is used ironically. It's great. It's working exactly like how Trump won the election!
I mean, mayocide nao!
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
If you're not white why should I care about your opinion?
n/a joncash 2017-04-14
Because I was speaking ironically. Obviously you should kys.
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
You use the word irony a lot for someone who doesn't know what it means
n/a joncash 2017-04-14
Actually I was using it wrong intentionally the second time to see if I could trigger the white grammar Nazi in you. It worked!
Mayocide Nao!
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
Fuck you must be Asian
n/a joncash 2017-04-14
Lol, your racism is showing. Check yo privilege!
n/a khanfusion 2017-04-14
Nah, I can see why you'd think that, what with the "Nao" being super close to "Mao" and all that. But what you have to keep in mind is that lots of spastic white forever-kids intentionally misspell shit under the misguided belief that being dumb means being cool.
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
Actually I said it because only an Asian can trick a white that's just science
n/a khanfusion 2017-04-14
But white people can also trick white people, like now when this white dude tricked you into thinking he was Asian.
Checkmate.
n/a Sober_Sloth 2017-04-14
I'm Jewish. I was never fooled.
n/a Time_to_Drink 2017-04-14
This but un-ironically
n/a khanfusion 2017-04-14
Wut
n/a joncash 2017-04-14
It was total jibberish. My original post was random and didn't make any sense. I was just posting random drama memes for points. When he got triggered and responded to it, I thought it was hilarious and decided to post more random memes.
Just so we're on the same page, drama constantly posts
Mayocide
Kys
Reason Trump won
Although, I'm pretty sure this actual explanation is going to get me down voted to oblivion. I'm OK with that, bring it bitches.
n/a Akilroth234 2017-04-14
Ehh, it was clearly a marketing ploy, the name. I'm more disappointed that people didn't see past that fact, and just fed more into our outrage culture.
n/a newcomer_ts 2017-04-14
What?
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
What Sam does on her show is basically was Limbaugh does. She has good points but it's lost in rage and vitriol and condescension, ultimately limiting her point and her audience to only people who already agree with her.
n/a newcomer_ts 2017-04-14
This Rush Limbaugh?
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-04-14
People who get their opinions from comedians are even dumber than people who listen to talk radio. Also Bill Hicks wasn't funny.
n/a 420megabro 2017-04-14
Nnononono! You don't understand! He was purposefully unfunny, not because he was an edgelord hack, but because he wanted to challenge himself and then win the audience back, very brave and funny
n/a newcomer_ts 2017-04-14
Well, he never claimed he was.
n/a JohnTheOrc 2017-04-14
Only a white person would think that's a good defense
n/a Prince_Kropotkin 2017-04-14
Some of his bits were actually pretty hilarious. The Gulf War stuff...
n/a Saul_Panzer_NY 2017-04-14
"Oh, Bill. I wish your grandmother was alive to hear that new pussy eating bit in your act. When your glasses go all sideways, she would have lived that.
n/a absolutedesignz 2017-04-14
A lot of people fail to realize that "Dear White People" is the name of an in universe radio show. The movie isn't a letter to white people.
n/a khanfusion 2017-04-14
lol you expect the typical /r/drama poster to have knowledge of context or understand satire.
Man, it's mid-April. Half the posters in here are new users who are only able to post because their teachers have given up on them and if they're being shitty on the internet they can't be fucking up the classroom.
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
I would point out having written the article I am aware of the show within the show :)
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n/a EvanHarper 2017-04-14
what is it with people whomst call themselves "libertarians" now and being perpetually outraged on behalf of the "traditional" side in culture-war bullshit? like where does that come from?
n/a ANTVGM64 2017-04-14
I don't think I was communicating outrage, but Libertarians primarily come from conservative ideologies that think racism is 'over' and stuff like this show is just collectivist dreck. Which it's not.
n/a EvanHarper 2017-04-14
Oh, I didn't read your article, I just assumed its content based on where it was submitted. Why the fuck did you submit it here, do you think this is the subreddit for, like, dramatic productions?
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