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I was sort of specifically responding to the post directly above mine, that discussed the "restraints" placed on music. If the only restraints are market - like fewer people want to buy Prussian Blue records than gangsta rap - I don't think her comment makes any sense at all. Like surely she can't be arguing that all the people who buy gangsta rap should be forced to buy Prussian Blue as well?
Interesting, I don't think gangsta rap is all that acceptable. I think whenever a misogynist, violent artist breaks into the mainstream there is all sorts of controversy. Like Eminem. A lot of people spend a lot of time talking about how bad it is. It doesn't change the fact that it has a different social context. Like you don't need to be embracing sweeping affirmative action goals to acknowledge that a shirt that reads "Black Power" just means something integrally different than a shirt that reads "White Power." Insisting that we look at these things in a social vacuum is just foolish.







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