The internet was a-buzz yesterday when the news spread that Snoop Dogg was in Truro for some reason… turns out that reason is that he’s a TPB superfan (and did try to use his star power as leverage for the NS film industry tax credit) and is shooting with the Sunnyvale gang. But the internet was also talking about Snoop Dogg for another reason, he (or his social media manager) reposted Cleveland Cavaliers’ J.R. Smith‘s (or J.R. Smith’s social media manager’s) vile post calling Caitlyn Jenner a “science project.”
Is there not a way to celebrate Akon‘s amazing contribution—setting up solar street panels and solar panels in over a million homes across 14 African countries—without being horribly transphobic?
Truro, please keep your good weed for someone a bit more tolerant.
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Y’see, it’s stuff like this that makes me think a rad-left, SJW revolution isn’t going to be quite the Orwellian nightmare that I’ve imagined. Watching the various sects devour each other in post-revolutionary ideological infighting is going to be a shitlarf.
Keep it up comrades. we don’t need Daniel Tosh after all. heh heh heh
I can’t understand why we can’t say anything negative about Bruce Jenner in countries where veterans won us freedom of speech. This who we must love crap is very selective.
Maybe Snoop was a tad harsh in his execution, but the man makes a really valid point. Men become women and vice versa everyday… but it’s not everyday that someone promises to bring electricity to 600 million people across a continent!
You guys do know that the news can cover more than one thing right? The argument that Akon’s charity didn’t get press because of Caitlyn Jenner is ridiculous and only serves to take the focus off the real reason that it may not have gotten press: mainstream media’s racism. Tearing down another person doesn’t really get to the root of what we should be talking about at all. Plus, a “science project” is a pretty horrible thing to call a person.
Agreed, Gloria. These sort of memes are *exactly* what our veterans fought for. If you go to any war museum you can see tanks and planes with slogans of liberty written on them, such as “women are unfunny” and “trans women look like men” that our brave boys wrote on them in their struggle against femi-Nazism. It’s a shame that things have come to this.
Free speech doesn’t mean you can say whatever the hell you want anywhere without criticism or consequence. Free speech just protects you from going to prison for saying what you want (with the exception of threats, hate speech etc). Calling a transgender woman a science project is disgusting and disrespectful. Sure, snoop has a point, but he could have made that point without being transphobic.
Honestly, what he said could have been worded and handled differently, but going all hate speech and SJW is kind of uncalled for. I’m excited Snoop’s in my town, filming with Trailer Park Boys, he’s a pretty chill guy. What people say sometimes, well it’s just shit happening really, why give a shit if it doesn’t effect you ya know? People get butthurt way too much, I mean, people have told me to pick a gender and stick with it, but I’ve never really gave a shit, and I think people need to start learning not to be so sensitive.
I find it funny how people suddenly think more highly of Bruce/Caitlyn now, as if being transgendered is an accomplishment of some kind.
Lots of people who couldn’t care less about Bruce this time last month, are suddenly applauding Caitlyn as a hero. Why? Is a transgendered person really more valued or special than anybody else in society? I guess surgery really is the answer to all life’s problems!
But hey, she’s getting big money offers for interviews now, and everyone’s already forgotten about the vehicular manslaughter incident earlier this year.
Hilarious. – This has provoked the biggest crisis in the whole “Intersectionality of Oppression” debate since that time I asked an anarcho-feminist why she didn’t spell Emma GoldMAN with a “Y”
Laughing all the way to the re-education camp.
When did the coast become shit?
When did “The Coast” become shit?
Whn dd cosat became shot
SophiAmk, “Free speech doesn’t mean you can say whatever the hell you want anywhere without criticism or consequence.”
One person uses free speech to say something unpopular, another uses free speech to criticize what they’ve said. That is how free speech works, you see?
As for ‘consequence’ — If the ‘consequence’ to somebody saying something that you don’t like is simply that you get offended, self-righteous and indignant about it, then that’s totally fine. Because you have the freedom to express that. If the ‘consequence’ is a bunch of SJW doinks ‘disliking’ a comment or even writing to the coast to take the comment down (to spare the delicate feelings of today’s youth), then so be it.
But as soon as that ‘consequence’ is CENSORSHIP – then you no longer have free speech.
I’m sorry kids but some people are always going to think differently than you, believe different things and/or say things you don’t like. That is life here in reality. Sometimes when someone disagrees with you THEY are wrong, sometimes it’s a matter of opinion, and sometimes you might find yourself to be in the wrong (though I am sure you can still be morally superior in some way, don’t worry). As long as nobody is inciting hatred agains anyone or any group of people (Snoop’s commentary was not doing this, it was expressing his own opinion) then people need to be allowed to speak. BUT DON’T WORRY – you can always tell them you don’t like it. Sort of like I am doing now.
Unless of course you think every post on the internet should be some variation of something you agree with? Sounds kind of fascist though.
I see you’re deleting comments Stephanie Johns. Fake it ’till you make it, baby!
Hey Drew,
I delete the comments, not Steph. Mostly when there’s a personal attack against another commenter or if something is racist, sexist, transphobic, et. cetera.
There’s probably some sarcasm I’m missing here, but I don’t really understand why comments (on The Coast’s mobile site here) are credited for their number of dislikes? When I “like” something why doesn’t it show up?
If Snoop didn’t use the term science project, it once again would’ve been news no one knew about. This actually gave Akon the publicity needed to teach the world once again about what is truly important. A man changed into a woman who just had a case of vehicular manslaughter doesn’t deserve front page for being a hero.