Who doesn't have hip-hop in their library?
Moreover, the whole of their [Sasha Frere-Jones and Jessica Hopper] sustained attack against Merritt is founded on the dangerous and stupid notion that one's taste in music can be interrogated for signs of racist intent the same way a university's admissions process can: If the number of black artists in your iPod falls too far below 12.5 percent of the total, then you are violating someone's civil rights.
Personally don't care for hip-hop myself. Although, while recognizing that it is some bizarre outward expression of material wealth (or whatever), I find the autos (regardless of who is driving) that slowly drive by going BoOOOOom-BoOOOom-BoOOOm with the twenty-seven inch chrome spinners quite amusing. It's a real spectacle, but only in an absurd sort of way. It seems like a waste of ear drums and time... maybe it's just me.
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Yeah, this forced equivalence/egalitarianism is idiotic. Steyn wrote recently about this dumb idea that all cultures are equally 'valid'. The nicest counterexample (which he doesn't mention) is the Jews, I think. Before about 100 years back, where were the Jewish physicists?
Another friend of mine suggested that anyone who embraces this image is guilty of propogating the stereotype.
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