You take Dick Cheney seriously?
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Serious as a heart attackâŚor a dozen heart attacks. I mean, he was president for 8 years, after all.
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Iâve quit a couple of jobs in less-dignified ways, so Iâm okay with her decision.
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I love it. I wish her the best. Any time someone takes the reins like this, I support them.
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Thatâs one way to deal with a conflict of interest! If sheâd been less blunt about it (no pun intended) it probably wouldnât have gotten as much attention.
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If youâre the sort of person whose support or opposition on this issue are decided by one pot grower swearing in public, you either donât feel this issue is particularly important â in which case, youâre not much of a supporter â or youâre not thinking through the important aspects of the question â in which case, you may become an opponent the next time your left nostril itches.
Either way, appeasing your sensibilities isnât and shouldnât be an important goal.
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Oh I would. Iâd like to discuss that very much!
Officially Baller!
Scratch that officially the biggest baller!
Thanks for that interesting bit of cross-cultural insight.
Just a data point for comparison:
Here in Austria, legalization hasnât happened yet, and support for it is probably still short of 50% (I have no sources), but probably stronger among the younger demographics. Just like most other places, the left is more likely to be in favor of legalization than the right.
However, Iâd guess that only the most conservative 10% of the population would be offended in any way by this level of âbad languageâ (allowing for translation thoughâŚ). And those people would be in the âimpossible to win for legalizationâ category anyway.
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Iâm thoroughly confused by your âYouâresâ and âYousâ I think you me âThemâ and âTheirsâ
Appeasing my? ( i canât tell) sensibilities⌠no, should not be the goal.
Anyway, I find it odd that in a space where folks go all torches and pitchforks over âclick baitâ her cheap attention getting (among her legit and worthwhile message) is celebrated.
Iâm not entirely sure what I me, meself. But I definitely meant you as in @CannibalChicken, since you were the one stating that you (unless you were using a different meaning of âIâ) were offended by her use of the word âfuck.â
As far as whether her use of the phrase was cheap, that entirely depends on whether one gets all pitter-patted over the use of âfuckâ in public. I donât, so I donât consider her use of it as somehow cheapening the message.
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âFuck it,â on a news broadcast that youâd expect to be on a delay, not okay? âDirty fucking hippie,â in an Internet comment, okay?
She has no more responsibility as a âhighly professional, educated black woman,â to conduct herself according to standards she doesnât subscribe to than you do. Stephen Colbert said âFuck itâ on the air in the last week, and highly professional, educated White Catholic man is going to host a show that will pay him tens of millions of dollars. (See also: Lee Atwater.) The extent to which swearing is used as a punchline even in âfamily friendlyâ films and shows makes it pretty obvious that our obsession over language rather than than the content of the language is absurd and we are only uncomfortable about it because we think weâre protecting some reputation in our community of neighbors who all say âshitâ and âpiss,â too then judge each other for it. (What does the word âpeeâ stand for exactly?)
Also, I think that her being categorized as âBlackâ and/or âwomanâ makes even âliberalâ scrutiny of this pretty outrageous. The prejudices in her society towards her do not justify any notion that she hold herself to higher standards. It was stupid when Jackie Robinson was given that âhigher expectationâ and itâs even more stupid 50 years later.
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^THAT^
It would appear youâre not really into the whole âjokeâ thing.
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