You must be fun at parties.

The fact that he's go nothing to do with this tells you a lot about the people making the comments.

Any time anyone mentions Foucault, ever, my eye twitches so hard that people ask if I need medical attention.

BUT THE PANOPTICON AND STUFF

Having spent the past decade working in Africa and Latin America, bringing a variety of subaltern populations and organizations to prominent international policy debates...yeah, I feel obliged to reiterate the central claims and complaints of my constituency. Regardless of my own views, these are the views that I've…

Rich people. With their well-mannered violence.

I always love it when people who have clearly not been in a band say shit like: That would be a fun(ny) band name!

Well, given the massive amounts if environmental destruction posed by a single person in Western society - the simple fact of birth and life absolutely and directly lead to the death of many living beings, including the death and injury of human beings due to environmental and climate disasters. Seven billion people…

There are literally tombs of psychiatric and psychological studies that prove the exact opposite.

I 100% agree with your comment. However, I would suggest that the link between poverty and sexual assault is located within the impoverished and violent male. While it is vital that we support the victims of sexual assault within impoverished families (the violence is the effect), we need to allocate an equal or…

One day, you'll get it. Rap isn't a black thing, so they styles associated with rap are:

All good points. But I'm not conflating the two points you mention, and certainly wasn't attempting to do so. I am, however, troubling the validity of each (historical expertise and personal experience) as being capable of representation. There are problems with both, and I'm unwilling to privilege one over the other.

I'm commenting on the black indignation in response to the white woman's indignation. That's equally important within this scene, and within this ongoing debate.

Tell us how culture works, please.

Hey lightbright, I'm black. And given our divergent opinions on this matter, I think my point is well proven: no single individual is representative of a large and diverse group. And I'm often surrounded by people of my own race and others that think they have the right, or the information, to do so. It's wrong. It's…

True, but those experiences do not make you a representative of a group. Nor do those experiences exist uniformly within a certain group. They only provide the perspective of an individual within a diverse group of varying experiences.

Thanks for your comment, and for the most part, I agree. The problem is, and always will be, the fact that no single person can speak for a diverse group (we see this problem all over the recent news). The only thing nuance does to an opinion or perspective is add to the experience of an individual.

How is she pretending to be 'black'? Is that because rap is black? Because that's some racist shit. Rap culture cannot and should not be segregated and racialized as 'black', despite its origins. That is not how it exists as a global artform today. You might as well yell at black people for using computers, since…

We learn to speak through multiple influences, including the music we listen to and are intimately involved in making.

All of their voices are 'affectations'. Every single one.