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Atlantic Records boss steps down over black face

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  • 17-10-2019 1:36pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50067203

    amazing really how this can result in someone being essentially forced out of their job.

    "Come as your favourite musical icon"
    "Cool, I love Run DMC plus they have a distinctive style, I'll go as one of them"

    ****7 years later****

    RACIST!!!!!!!!

    Trudeau really managed to weather his own storm. Sad that others cant.


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    begsbyOnaTrain
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    The only reason I clicked on the link was to see the guy in blackface. Disappointed.


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    Omackeral
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    I hate everyone in these situations. The dopes who do it knowing people will get offended and the dopes getting offended at it. Fcuk sake.


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    jimgoose
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    Hmm. That "Cardi B" one looks like a Ladyboy.


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    Immortal Starlight
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    Stupid to leave his job because of this. He should have shown a bit of backbone and stayed.


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    Weepsie
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    He's seemingly partly responsible for the success of Ed Sheeran and the ever increasing rewarding of mediocrity . I'm okay with this sacking


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    Your Face
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    Limp-wristed apologies in these situations annoy me.
    Just own it.


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    blinding
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    Immortal Starlight wrote: »
    Stupid to leave his job because of this. He should have shown a bit of backbone and stayed.
    Should have taken a Black Boner to Atone .


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    DavidLyons_
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    I hate everyone in these situations. The dopes who do it knowing people will get offended and the dopes getting offended at it. Fcuk sake.

    +100. Bunch of w@nkers. I was delighted Trudeau was made to sweat when he did it because @ssholes like him are usually the ones flapping their gums in outrage when someone does things like that.

    Stormzy demanded your man be sacked apparently. Absolute thin-skinned tw@ts.

    On the plus side, this git is responsible for Sheeran’s rise. Good riddance to him before he does any more damage to the music business. Pity he couldn’t take Stormzy with him.


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    4068ac1elhodqr
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    Time to check the halloween photos from 20yrs ago incase it somehow hinders the next 20yrs.


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    biko
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Trudeau really managed to weather his own storm. Sad that others cant.
    Socialists always gets away with it.
    Their voter base is extremely stupid forgiving


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    Bigbagofcans
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    Cultural appropriation y'all.


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    biko
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    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Cultural appropriation y'all.
    Saw a Japanese guy in an Irish pub playing the bodhran

    Had to rip it from his grasp.
    So incredibly racist!


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    Fart
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    Robert Downey Jr. next?


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    Bigbagofcans
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    biko wrote: »
    Saw a Japanese guy in an Irish pub playing the bodhran

    Had to rip it from his grasp.
    So incredibly racist!

    How dare he!

    I wore cornrows recently cos the '90s are back in vogue and I got my hair pulled :(
    (not really. Cornrows aren't my thang.)

    We have so much freedom these days but yet we don't and have to watch everything we do or say in case someone gets offended.

    I'd be more liberal than conservative, but this getting offended by everything is really annoying.


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    Thelonious Monk
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    I honestly think it's people getting offended at people supposedly getting offended who aren't getting offended in the first place that is the problem here


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    JohnnyFlash
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    It’s safe to say we’ve all gone blackface at one stage or another over the years. When’s this witch hunt going to end?

    One of my good friends dressed up as a Nigerian woman in Aldi for a Halloween party a few years back. Had a little miniature trolley, two cushions shoved down the arse of a massive pair of jeans, and kept going around the party saying ‘move out of my way’.

    The dude is now a TD. Will his career be over if and when the video of this is released?


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    MetzgerMeister
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    On one hand I think he should have stood his ground and not left his job. The perpetually offended are a bunch of entitled social justice warriors and millennial w@nkers. They are anything but social.

    On the other hand, Atlantic's main stream of income is more than likely from these people given the artists on the label and there would be boycotting of their releases if he didn't step down.

    As Rage Against the Machine said - The land of the free? Whoever told you that was your enemy


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    Thelonious Monk
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It’s safe to say we’ve all gone blackface at one stage or another over the years. When’s this witch hunt going to end?

    One of my good friends dressed up as a Nigerian woman in Aldi for a Halloween party a few years back. Had a little miniature trolley, two cushions shoved down the arse of a massive pair of jeans, and kept going around the party saying ‘move out of my way’.

    The dude is now a TD. Will his career be over if and when the video of this is released?

    Don't think it would end his career in Ireland, it would in UK or America though. Bit of a stupid racist costume though, no need for it.


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    MetzgerMeister
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Bit of a stupid racist costume though, no need for it.

    It seems that it's not ok for a white person to dress up as a black person but the other way around isn't an issue.

    How many times has anyone heard anything about the film White Chicks being racist??? Not even once I'll bet.


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    jam_mac_jam
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    biko wrote: »
    Socialists always gets away with it.
    Their voter base is extremely stupid forgiving

    Go and look up socialist in a dictionary as you have obviously not a notion of what the word means.


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    Thelonious Monk
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    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    It seems that it's not ok for a white person to dress up as a black person but the other way around isn't an issue.

    How many times has anyone heard anything about the film White Chicks being racist??? Not even once I'll bet.

    Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin. If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it. White people dgaf about black people whiteing up, and that's fine.


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    punisher5112
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    Such load of rubbish.....

    It's like saying if father Ted were still alive he would have to do the same for doing the Chinese impression.


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    punisher5112
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin. If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it. White people dgaf about black people whiteing up, and that's fine.

    They did to their own of course though....

    Also I've come across many a racist black person...

    Also us Irish owe them nothing but many seem to think we do....


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    MetzgerMeister
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin. If blacking up is offensive to them you probably shouldn't do it. White people dgaf about black people whiteing up, and that's fine.

    So every white person alive today has to pay for the sins of the people who enslaved black people?

    May aswell make all Austrians and Germans pay for the sins of Hitler in that case.

    What you've said there is a double standard.


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    Omackeral
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Black people don't have a history of enslaving and treating white people like vermin

    Neither does my family but my cousin dressed up as BA Baracas in 1992. Is he scum? I pity the fool who says he is.


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    Ready4Boarding
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    It’s safe to say we’ve all gone blackface at one stage or another over the years.

    The thought of wearing blackface has never even crossed my mind.


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    kwestfan08
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    Like seriously, how hard is it to not black up? At no point when you're putting the face paint on do you not think, maybe no, maybe I dont need to be doing this.


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    Omackeral
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    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    So every white person alive today has to pay for the sins of the people who enslaved black people?

    Imagine making your kids grow up doing this.

    lifeline010.jpg?w=1000


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    punisher5112
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    kwestfan08 wrote: »
    Like seriously, how hard is it to not black up? At no point when you're putting the face paint on do you not think, maybe no, maybe I dont need to be doing this.

    Free country and mostly a free world I see it as a non issue as is wanting to dress up as someone say you may idol ...

    Skin colour is just that a colour and the human being behind that skin is exactly that so I see them as equal as I do Asian, Eskimos and German....


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    Thelonious Monk
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    Neither does my family but my cousin dressed up as BA Baracas in 1992. Is he scum? I pity the fool who says he is.

    No, but this is Ireland and we didn't have such a globalised society in 1992 we were more insular and there were no black people here. I probably wouldn't do it in 2019 though.
    Some black people might be offended by it, so probably best avoided to black up, who cares, I don't know why people are so offended by not being able to do this without a bit of a furore.


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