Originally posted by PrincessAli
Personally, I think his music is hilarious....I mean he even states that he is not serious about half of the crap he says anyway.
I think it is a good way to push the freedom of speech futher 
GO EMINEM!:sohappy:
Yes, it’s just too bad that his biggest audience is an incredibly impressionable one and that he knows that they are and completely doesn’t care. In all honesty, I doubt his biggest audience has a true understanding of what freedom of speech really means. I know a lot of young people who don’t understand it’s limitations (lord knows we run into young ones on this forum that think they have the right to say whatever they want to whomever they want and then get really, really angry when people push back).
As Eminem would say “All women are _________” I guess that makes you one, too… Just joking. Do you respect me for saying that and does saying that I’m just joking make it ok? How would you feel if your father said that to you?... How about your boyfriend/husband?... Or some day your son?
For what it’s worth, hate propaganda is not protected under the first amendment and our good friend walks a pretty fine line when it comes to that. The phrase “just kidding” may get him past censors for the time being but I feel true pity for a society that views that as a good thing. There are still people today that consider what the Nazis did to be art. Does that somehow justify it and make it acceptable to the people that lived through it? You may think I’m blowing this totally out of proportion. Sure, he’s just talking about his life and what happened to him and so on. Yep, he had it rough. So did someone else:
http://www.kawvalley.k12.ks.us/scho...2002_holocaust_projects/02_ribelin_hitler.htm
I challenge you to follow the link and look for similarities both in personal histories and in beliefs and attitudes.
People like Eminem like to try ducking the responsibility that comes with their ability to be heard but any time you influence people, you bare some of the responsibility for their actions. History has taught us this. Sure, there is a difference and I’m not saying that Eminem is planning world domination with a race of bleached hair, “wife beater” wearing young white guys or anything but the Nazi movement did not start with the planned extermination of a race either. What he fuels may not lead to World War III but there is a little quote that some people may be familiar with that comes from a book written early in the last century: “So this is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.
Laugh all you want now but one day years from now you’ll hear something on the radio that you can in no way relate to and you’ll be amazed that people ever had a problem with Eminem. You’ll think it’s horrible and you’ll not believe that anybody could find it entertaining – sort of like the way some adults today look back on groups like 2 Live Crew…. They were just raunchy, they never alienated social groups or simulated murder on their albums… Perhaps one day we’ll get to listen to some real snuff audio from whoever comes along to replace the new guy in the spot light. Just imagine the video for that song! I can hardly wait!
:sohappy:
. I enjoy his music very much, if he wants to sing about his parents that way, then let him. Do you know the history of his family? His Mom was a drug addict. I have no problems with anything he says.
