Rewriting, Washing, Scrubbing American Culture

[Songbird]

No, I referenced a line from a bygone era in a time where it's no longer allowed to reference that movie.

Here you used it to be offensive and thought it was ok because you were referencing a movie.

You're right, that's exactly how I used it because that's what's happened on this board for 20+ years ... real time saucy, blue, edgy, WTF connections between past and present.

Sorry if I missed the national memo stating that it's no longer OK to reference movies like that.

Before this "Me love you long time" Sticks Around For A Really Long Time I didn't know there was blowback against that line.

That said, I look forward to your hall monitoring of everyone else here.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

No, I referenced a line from a bygone era in a time where it's no longer allowed to reference that movie.



You're right, that's exactly how I used it because that's what's happened on this board for 20+ years ... real time saucy, blue, edgy, WTF connections between past and present.

Sorry if I missed the national memo stating that it's no longer OK to reference movies like that.

Before this "Me love you long time" Sticks Around For A Really Long Time I didn't know there was blowback against that line.

That said, I look forward to your hall monitoring of everyone else here.

Who stopped you from referencing it?

You were just told it was a racist stunt. Now you're throwing a fit because people won't allow you to be a racist kunt without blowback.

 

[Batman]

What about other American movies? TV shows? Books. Songs?

Based on the genesis of this discussion, I'm guessing 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" is out.

 

[Songbird]

Referencing that song makes you a kunt.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

LOL people tried to ban that from the moment it came out. A since disbarred prosecutor filed obscenity charges against them three decades ago. Good example.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Take your L and your meds, bro.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I love Full Metal Jacket. It's one of my favorite movies.

But if I went up to my black neighbor and said, "You won't like my house because we don't serve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis!", I'd be an asshole.

 

[Azrael]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...oman-jobseeker-love-you-long-time/1619777001/

An Asian-American woman in Chicago said that, upon confirming a job interview, a vice president of a local recruiting firm sent her an email containing a commonly-known racist phrase.

"Me love you long time," reads an e-mail that Connie Cheung said was accidentally sent to her by Jim McMahon, the vice president of Chicago Search Group.

 

[BTExpress]

I love Full Metal Jacket. It's one of my favorite movies.

But if I went up to my black neighbor and said, "You won't like my house because we don't serve fried chicken and watermelon on a daily basis!", I'd be an asshole.

Then I guess "Put a n***** behind the trigger" is off limits?

 

[Azrael]

How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian-American Women (Published 2021)

Sung Yeon Choimorrow, the executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, an advocacy group, said that when she first came to the United States to attend college in 2000, she was "stunned, dumbfounded, horrified" by the way she was frequently approached by male strangers who professed to love Korean women.

"It is the 'Me so horny, I love you long time,' in like weird accents, and 'Oh, are you Korean? I love Korea,'" she said, adding that she began to wonder if American men were crazy. They would "go into this whole thing about how they served in the military in Korea and how they had this amazing Korean girlfriend that was just like me. And will I be their girlfriend?"

The men, she said, ranged in age from the very young to the very old, and seemed never to understand that their attention was not flattering. "I've experienced racism. I've experienced sexism. But I never experienced the two like that as I have when I came to the United States."


She said many Asian-American women viewed Tuesday's shooting rampage as the culmination of this racialized misogyny.

 

[Batman]

LOL people tried to ban that from the moment it came out. A since disbarred prosecutor filed obscenity charges against them three decades ago. Good example.

Although I think that soundbite was pretty far down the list of reasons they were trying to ban it.

 

[Azrael]

I think the bigger question/issue is do we even have a "shared" American culture?

For better or worse, we don't.

Maybe that's not a bad thing … for many years, a lot of us were left out — often for things we had no choice about. Because who we are isn't considered "American" enough.

Regarding the original question of this thread: art, books, music and movies have offended and entertained people simultaneously for a long time. Personally, it takes a an awful lot to offend me or to be worthy of editing/censoring.

I think Americans share a "culture," but that culture is incredibly dynamic and constantly changing.

This thread is a pretty good example of that.

Something you said with impunity ten years ago or ten days ago or ten minutes ago may suddenly be off-limits.

It's hard to keep up.

That said, this thread is also a reminder the failure of any individual bad joke doesn't necessarily mean the entire culture has collapsed.