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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
well i disagree with you, music is free to reflect subcultures even if you don't like it. you are free to your opinion and criticism but anyone is free to criticize it
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Right. I'm free to feel how I feel about this. You're free to challenge me and tell me I should respect gang culture. I'm free to say that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You're free to misinterpret my message and tell me I'm basically not qualified to not respect gang culture because I haven't experienced gang culture. I'm free to tell you that you've one-upped yourself on the whole "stupidest thing I've ever heard" front. I'm free, you're free. We're all free.
But just because we have the freedom to do something doesn't mean that thing should be done. For instance, some part of you knows that what I'm railing against is SES-related youth and minority violence, black on black crime and murder, and the longstanding gangland tradition of recruiting children into a world of drugs and violence and death.
I'm sure you realize this on some level, even though you love to argue with me.
You have the "right" to — for some reason — fight with me about what I'm saying (again: gangs bad, violence bad, encouraging violence bad), but WHY? Is this a right that you *should* exercise? Playing devil's advocate for Bloods and Crips? Sure, you can do it. You can take all kinds of umbrage at my disapproval of minority and child violence and you can cook up some rationale for why I'm, like, wrong to have a problem with this.
But Jesus Christ. Really? Is that really something you feel you need to do? Because it seems like you're making a case in favor of the Bloods and Crips (because Culture!!). Of course you can do it, but I have a hard time belie being that you even really want to. I think you just want to have an Internet beef and remind everyone for the thousandth time that you're from LA, and therefore must school anyone who mentions LA or anything related to LA.
Dood.