The disagreement was obvious from the get-go. I figured someone would have a nuanced opinion that could shed some light on the subject. But here, as with everywhere, we're all wallflowers on one side of the dance floor or the other.

In general it's that we should have thicker skin to art, that the value of it isn't always how much it buttresses-up our own world view, but can be knowingly the exact opposite of that. I know that this is satire, so it's a bit of a grey area between art and journalism, but in my opinion the same truth holds.

Well, then we'll have to agree to disagree.

Hmm.

My argument was based on the assumption that someone would be defending that song, for the point of drawing a distinction. If they feel that both things are abhorrent and its use by white people for the sake of satire itself is, on its face, inexcusable, then there's really nowhere to go with the argument. You feel…

I think you're citing specifics of each situation, but those specifics have come long after the fact of rejecting its use by a white person in satire. I will take your criticism seriously if you can find one example of a white artist using 'nigger' for satire that you find appropriate. Why does it have to be a white…

I was talking about its general use and usefulness in satirizing inequality, but I'm glad good people like you can go around and test the ethics of artists, satirists and entertainers in the way they conceive & deliver their art.

How is his use of it any different than "Woman is the Nigger of the World"? Satirists use the ugliness of words & opinions to underline themselves. You should be upset.

Opie and Anthony fans have and built-in hatred for SiriusXM because of all the shit we've heard about the management, their deplorable customer service, their failure to help the show in the past. If not all of the people that are tweeting are actually going to follow through on their word, you can safely assume that…

Do you think they're vetting their customers? Dollars are dollars. SiriusXM isn't the Omegas from Animal House.

The market will respond whenever the investors become aware of the hit in subscriptions this has caused. It's possible that one of the trades will look at the @SiriusXM @ mentions on Twitter and see the massive amount of people who have already unsubscribed. If not, people won't be aware of the lowered value to…

Stock prices are based on the perceived and projected value of the company. When quarterly information tells you that there has been a massive loss of subscribers, people are left with a stock that is worth less than was assumed. The market corrects to that new valuation. The stock dips.

We'll have to see once the numbers flesh out.

Their listenership hovered around 1 million; I think tens of thousands of lost subscribers is quite a fair assessment. O & A listeners tended to be fanatics with multiple-car plans and multiple receivers (the refunds for contracts and the hardware returns alone are hitting up to $600 back for some disgruntled fans).…

THAT DON'T MAKE NO SENSE

There was not one threat from a single advertiser to pull money from the platform. SiriusXM just panicked and, as with most outrage-firings today, the issue never was even given a chance for any real free market verdict.

1 million listeners. See the volume of #CancelSiriusXM tweets (many from subscribers who are being refunded hundreds on multiple receivers) and get back to me on whether or not you think they'll notice.

The stock market responds to that, but hard numbers are stronger than a self-congratulatory .02 cent bump. And when the quarterlies come out that number will be quite hard indeed. Check the volume of #CancelSiriusXm tweets from once-paying subscribers (many of whom are getting refunded hundreds on multiple units) for…

Yes, but should you be able to be fired for your political opinion? What about your religion? There is a line that is being arbitrarily drawn.