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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Yeah, the reason they're not realistic is because it wouldn't work. Why? Because 1) People wouldn't do it on a large scale and 2) people wouldn't follow through with a large scale boycott.
Thus, because not enough people within the community would be willing to act upon it, it likely wouldn't work. That doesn't eliminate it from the double standard category, that displays a double standard within the society as a whole. If you can get a significant base to act in a dedicated way regarding one problem, but they won't do the same in another, what is that?
I think the impossibility excuse is just that. Until the record companies and advertisers hear from black culture as a whole, not just a sliver of the community, of course they'll be able to ignore it. Don't you have to start somewhere (once again, this is all hypothetical, I really don't care)? Also, if anyone knows about how to succeed in uphill battles, its the black community. Sorry, I'm just not buying the "well, maybe we'd do it if it would work" argument.
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In order to argue for a double standard, you cannot implicate "the Black community" or "Black culture as a whole", because
the people who protested Imus are a VERY small segment of the Black population as well (And were mostly only among the Black elite, whom you argued don't represent the whole). If every last one of them wanted to protest every single offensive hip hop artist on every single label and every single radio station playing them spread out all over the country, there would be nowhere to start. Furthermore even if they did, they would represent a "sliver" of the 20-30% of hip hop consumers who are Black.
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