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[Rman]

So has ERA decided there will only one opinion is sanctioned there and any pushback will get you banned?

this has nothing to do bigotry.  saying will smith was out of pocket is no controversial take.

[ShutUp]

Celebrity slapping another celebrity over a shitty joke is a *sensitive* topic now   

Eat the rich!*



*when we say it’s ok

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post.567099/page-4#post-84347151

User banned (permanent): inappropriate rhetoric, ableism, accumulated infractions

I hope Wilk Smith get the help he needs and overcome his mental struggle. On the other hand, he has achieved the opposite of he was after, since every comedian is going to mock bald people in general and Jada Smith in particular from now on.

I hope you find jesus, ableist asshole

[benita]

Yet again era has done an incredible job demonstrating their inability to accept that multiple things can be true at once.

Was Rock's joke kinda shitty? Sure.

Is it the type of joke awards show hosts have been making for decades? Absolutely.

Did Will have a right to feel pissed? Yep.

Was there a better course of action than walking up on the stage at the Oscars and physically slapping someone....

What they've masterfully done is draw this line where either you support Will, or you're a sheltered white racist who is ok with verbally assaulting a woman about her horrific medical condition.

No grey area, no wiggle room, and of course the deck is stacked against anyone on the other side because whilst it's ok for the posters on Will's side to screech at others to fuck off, post "cracka" memes and dismiss any argument against physical violence as "sheltered yt nonsense", anyone who raises their head above the parapet to say that maybe slapping someone on live TV because they basically associated one shaved head with another is an overreaction, runs the risk of being instabanned for "trolling"

[nobody of note]

Will Smith has apologized on Instagram.

How long until the first Era ban of a yt person being racist by agreeing with the apology that his behavior was out of line?

[Snoopycat_]

Meanwhile -

In my country prostitution is legal,no judgement zone here,who has gone to a prostitute/sex worker to service his/her needs?I definitely have,no shame to admit it.

For all intents and purposes i consider this to be a serious thread,no troll answers,i legit believe sex workers/prostitutes do a serious benefit to society.And sex work should definitely be regulated as it has in my country.

 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/legal-prostitution-in-this-thread-lets-talk-about-prostitution.567093/#post-84344933

[benita]

That's actually a decent apology.

Can't wait for era to spin this as Will being forced into apologising by the racist Hollywood machine.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Will Smith has apologized on Instagram.

How long until the first Era ban of a yt person being racist by agreeing with the apology that his behavior was out of line?

I wonder how many crisis managers and publicists were involved in the crafting and approval of that statement. I'm just curious about the number.

[Rman]

Will Smith has apologized on Instagram.

How long until the first Era ban of a yt person being racist by agreeing with the apology that his behavior was out of line?

I wonder how many crisis managers and publicists were involved in the crafting and approval of that statement. I'm just curious about the number.

lol. era is so weird af.  you wonder if these guys have jobs. 

also lol.


Now Chris Rock absolutely needs to apologize for his offensive and shit joke.


a joke is not the same as assault, sorry. these assholes love to blame the victim.

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/post-84353309

https://today.yougov.com/topics/arts/survey-results/daily/2022/03/28/edb5e/3

welp, there goes the "only white people think Will did the wrong thing" argument.

[Averon]

The man they spent pages and two threads defending and banning users for admits what he did was wrong and even apologized to Rock at that. How will Nep and crew spin this

[Snoopycat_]

I wonder how Ree would've reacted if it had been Joanne instead of Will who slapped Chris

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-19#post-84353127

User Banned (1 Week): Mild concern trolling

Will posted an apology on his Instagram:

Will people now get mad at him for saying that violence isn't an answer?

Kinthey is going to end up getting blame_spaced.

Edit:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-19#post-84353281

User Banned (1 Month): Disingenuous concern trolling across multiple posts

The behavior isn’t okay, but I get it. I understand why he did it, and in the same situation with emotions running like that I can’t say I wouldn’t have done it myself like a lot of others are saying.

you can't say you wouldn't have done it, but you're also saying it's not ok. that's sending mixed signals in my opinion. maybe you're not confident in your own ability to control your actions? i sure as hell wouldn't have done it. to me, it comes across as excusing the behavior, but alright, i'll take your word for it and go with your explantion, that you're just not really in control of your behavior when it comes to physical violence (i hope you know how common of an excuse this is for physical abuse). not really any better tbh, but alright.

Maybe they just don't like the Ninja Turtles.

[benita]

lmfao we're grading the levels of concern trolling now.

[Rman]

these guys and their "vetted" jokes. they don't get comedy at all.  and gi jane.  that's the tamest shit ever.

[Taco Bell Tower]

Wtf at that Kinthey ban

[Rman]

Wtf at that Kinthey ban

Nep is on the warpath lol.

[joeboy101]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/post-84353309

https://today.yougov.com/topics/arts/survey-results/daily/2022/03/28/edb5e/3

welp, there goes the "only white people think Will did the wrong thing" argument.

Even better...

https://today.yougov.com/topics/arts/survey-results/daily/2022/03/28/edb5e/2

Is it ever OK to hit someone for something they said?

[Nintex]

After that public humiliation Will Smith should've left and taken Chris's job and house 5 years later to get back at him

[Averon]

Wtf at that Kinthey ban

He posted a question they couldn't easily answer, so just ban him and sweep it under the rug.

[joeboy101]

From NepNep's word salad staff post:

Should you slap people for insulting your loved ones? Probably not. Was it illegal? Yes; Rock has a case if he wanted to pursue it. Is it understandable that Smith had a moment where he hit someone? Sure, human beings hit others for insults all the time, and as a highly-scrutinized celebrity, it's not surprising his threshold was reached tonight. Should a single slap be considered some watershed moment in the conversation about violence in America? Probably fucking not, considering the history and current status quo of America. Should every single illegal action that ever takes place be pursued by police involvement? Also probably fucking not. In an ironically more chill world, that thread would've been full of memes and maybe dropped off. Instead, staff are having to mill through nearly 100 reports and having to address this with a big statement because people who are constantly online can't just not be at 11 all the time.

In short, just go outside.

A) Maybe it wasn't full of memes because some posters went racial warrior over people having any opinion on a NON racial issue.

B) 

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-20#post-84353583

Genuine question to the mods, based on some of the bans that are being handed out, is it a bannable offence to express the opinion that Will Smith was in the wrong for slapping Chris Rock?

Are you sure this is a genuine question? Did you read the staff post that said what Will did was illegal and generally shouldn't have been done? Have you seen the numerous people that have said what Will Smith did was wrong and yet didn't get banned?

[Klelk]

A fucking forum janny telling ANYONE to go outside 

[Rman]

From NepNep's word salad staff post:

Should you slap people for insulting your loved ones? Probably not. Was it illegal? Yes; Rock has a case if he wanted to pursue it. Is it understandable that Smith had a moment where he hit someone? Sure, human beings hit others for insults all the time, and as a highly-scrutinized celebrity, it's not surprising his threshold was reached tonight. Should a single slap be considered some watershed moment in the conversation about violence in America? Probably fucking not, considering the history and current status quo of America. Should every single illegal action that ever takes place be pursued by police involvement? Also probably fucking not. In an ironically more chill world, that thread would've been full of memes and maybe dropped off. Instead, staff are having to mill through nearly 100 reports and having to address this with a big statement because people who are constantly online can't just not be at 11 all the time.

In short, just go outside.

A) Maybe it wasn't full of memes because some posters went racial warrior over people having any opinion on a NON racial issue.

B) 

every other social media platform loooked at this whole thing with mirth. but era continues to be the no fun platform.

[HaughtyFrank]

From NepNep's word salad staff post:

Should you slap people for insulting your loved ones? Probably not. Was it illegal? Yes; Rock has a case if he wanted to pursue it. Is it understandable that Smith had a moment where he hit someone? Sure, human beings hit others for insults all the time, and as a highly-scrutinized celebrity, it's not surprising his threshold was reached tonight. Should a single slap be considered some watershed moment in the conversation about violence in America? Probably fucking not, considering the history and current status quo of America. Should every single illegal action that ever takes place be pursued by police involvement? Also probably fucking not. In an ironically more chill world, that thread would've been full of memes and maybe dropped off. Instead, staff are having to mill through nearly 100 reports and having to address this with a big statement because people who are constantly online can't just not be at 11 all the time.

In short, just go outside.

A) Maybe it wasn't full of memes because some posters went racial warrior over people having any opinion on a NON racial issue.

B) 

It's almost like the mods could have easily turned it into this direction. Instead they gave the keys to the people who were obsessed with absolving Smith of any guilt and declare that all of this is a racist witch hunt

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-6#post-84348049

Official Staff Communication

Staff are continuing to go through reports in the original thread, and we probably will for awhile considering that thread's size. It will also likely not be reopened, but that isn't determined at this point in time. Still, we have a lot to address since discussion has moved here, so sit down and get comfortable kids.

It is firstly most important to recognize the largest victim in this scenario: Jada Pinkett Smith. What happened to her last night is that, in a mostly white space, a Black woman was directly targeted by a person in a temporary position of power over her and made to feel lesser over an issue that not only is very personal for her, but one she cannot control. It's also an issue that, even if she could control it, inevitably plays into the sociopolitical ramifications of Black hair, especially Black women's hair, which is irrevocably tied to Black oppression. Look at the CROWN Act. Look at John Oliver's take on the matter. Hell, look at Rock's own documentary about the very subject. This is not a subject equivalent to the treatment of male pattern baldness in men, especially white men, and to treat it as such shows a telling ignorance of the matter. Pile on top of this all of the glaringly inappropriate comments about her relationship to her husband, which is all rooted in the realms of sexism and bias against those in open relationships, and what you have left at the end of it all is textbook misogynoir.

Ultimately, all Jada did last night was show up to support her husband in one of the most pivotal moments of his professional career, and she was not only attacked twice for it, but she has primarily been brought up only as a way to emasculate her husband. Jada was humiliated and then further dehumanized as a mere weapon, and that is unacceptable.

What is also unacceptable is the rampant ableism that has occurred in that thread. Of course the use of her alopecia in Chris Rock's set qualifies as this, but just as well, any psychological professional will tell you that a single moment of lost control or lack of inhibition is not any serious indicator or symptom of mental illness, or of more inappropriate terms such as being "unhinged" or "dangerous." All this kind of concern trolling and armchair diagnosis does is reinforce stereotypes that physical violence is strictly the realm of the mentally unwell, it upholds people to impossible and unrealistic standards, and it pushes away uncomfortable conversations about violence's role in the establishment and maintenance of modern society.

It cannot also be understated that these sorts of sentiments are further escalated when you factor in the Blackness of both Will Smith and Chris Rock. Black people are seen as more predominantly predisposed to violence than white people are, and thus any moment of violence on part of a Black person, especially in a predominantly white space, is amplified as an important moment, something to be outrageously afraid of, something that permanently stains not just the persons involved, but the Black community as a whole. And when you recall the fact that this is not even the first time that the Oscars have turned violent, and how little a moment where a white man had to be restrained by security from barreling down on a Native woman, actually mattered to both the lack of collective racialization of white people and an uptick in sociopolitical concern by entertainers about their safety on stage, then the double standard becomes even more obvious. Let's not even go down the road of the insistence that Rock should utilize the police against Smith, regardless of how he feels, in the aftermath of the police violence protests two years ago.

So when you get down to brass tacks, what happened last night? What happened is that Chris Rock made a dumb, dated joke about Jada Smith's lack of hair, which angered Will Smith enough to get up, open-hand slap him once, leave, and verbally berate him afterwards. Rock was understandably shocked but brushed off the incident with a calm reserve and jokes aimed at his own expense to continue on, and he ultimately decided not to press charges for the assault. Really... this is a nothingburger of an incident, beyond the fact that it happened between two multimillionaires at an awards show watched by millions around the globe.

Should you slap people for insulting your loved ones? Probably not. Was it illegal? Yes; Rock has a case if he wanted to pursue it. Is it understandable that Smith had a moment where he hit someone? Sure, human beings hit others for insults all the time, and as a highly-scrutinized celebrity, it's not surprising his threshold was reached tonight. Should a single slap be considered some watershed moment in the conversation about violence in America? Probably fucking not, considering the history and current status quo of America. Should every single illegal action that ever takes place be pursued by police involvement? Also probably fucking not. In an ironically more chill world, that thread would've been full of memes and maybe dropped off. Instead, staff are having to mill through nearly 100 reports and having to address this with a big statement because people who are constantly online can't just not be at 11 all the time.

In short, just go outside.

[Taco Bell Tower]

NepNep

Can't wait until some 60 year old racist gets decked again for terrorizing a Black person by hurling the N-word and the conversation magically switches over to "what about redemption uwu? 😔"

Well, I wasn't noting Rock's joke, but rather Smith's behavior. People came out swiftly wanting his career to completely cease and for him to face legal consequences for a slap. Meanwhile, ol' Grandpappy Jeremiah has gone through a much longer life than Smith's lived calling Black folks savage distinguished black fellows left and right, and Era members always want BlackEra to place faith in these folks that they can change and don't deserve any consequences for even the most heinous displays of hatred (mainly because a lot of these idiots are folks' family members, and they are terrified of having them laid out in the street, although curiously enough that terror usually doesn't extend to checking them in private.)

It is exhausting dealing with this level of double standard, and it's also why I tire at the "it's just words!" crowd.

[Tuckers Law]

 

Baldness as a disability

[bork]

So has ERA decided there will only one opinion is sanctioned there and any pushback will get you banned?

Well, yeah- it has been like that since the neogaf days.

[ShutUp]

Still trying to decipher how one black man slapping another black man over a joke made about his black wife’s baldness has anything whatsoever to do with white people.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Genuine question to the mods, based on some of the bans that are being handed out, is it a bannable offence to express the opinion that Will Smith was in the wrong for slapping Chris Rock?

If it is, that would be ridiculous. Stifling other’s opinions is not constructive at all, it becomes an echo chamber.

lol come on. Demonstrably false, read the thread before posting this kind of concern trolling or you're gonna catch a vacation too

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-21#post-84354059

The toxicity in this post is laughable. I’ve been reading and positing here all day. I’m just saying that stifling opposing opinions to your own is not constructive at all.

silence, cracker

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-21#post-84354059

The toxicity in this post is laughable. I’ve been reading and positing here all day. I’m just saying that stifling opposing opinions to your own is not constructive at all.

silence, cracker

Nothing to see here. Mods are too busy banning mild trolling

[Boredfrom]

I can’t wait when Will Smith gets a divorce and we heard how crazy he and rest of his family is. You can’t tell me he is in a happy marriage.

Oh yeah, is white people fault or something.

[Rman]

Genuine question to the mods, based on some of the bans that are being handed out, is it a bannable offence to express the opinion that Will Smith was in the wrong for slapping Chris Rock?

If it is, that would be ridiculous. Stifling other’s opinions is not constructive at all, it becomes an echo chamber.

lol come on. Demonstrably false, read the thread before posting this kind of concern trolling or you're gonna catch a vacation too

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-21#post-84354059

The toxicity in this post is laughable. I’ve been reading and positing here all day. I’m just saying that stifling opposing opinions to your own is not constructive at all.

silence, cracker

one of the things about that "community" is their sheer glee they get from having people banned.  i really blame bishoptl and his nonsense for creating that culture. 

[railGUN]

Still trying to decipher how one black man slapping another black man over a joke made about his black wife’s baldness has anything whatsoever to do with white people.

There, everything has something to do with white people. It's pretty funny tbh.

[ShutUp]

Why does this loser with an NJPW wrestler in his avatar think it’s acceptable to tell people to shut up? Goddamn I would pay some money to watch people like that get their jaw shattered for daring to try and speak to someone that way.

[Boredfrom]

. Certain people aren't gonna like that first line.

EDIT: probably fake, so deleting in case 

 

Bitch ass Beef gets fooled by fake news.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dont-say-gay-bill-signed-into-law-in-florida-by-gov-desantis.567053/page-4#post-84349597

I’m a person. LGBT are people, not political points, not opinions. And your posts in this thread are wicked sketchy and show you don’t know what the fuck your talking about. I knew I was transgender even if I didn’t have the words for it by 5 years old. And if you talk to the community though it’s not everybody’s story it’s not rare.

Desantis hates gay people. Conservatives want us dead or dissapeared. It’s multiple states in multiple ways, it’s a concerted effort to roll back all progress made by LGBT people and to take away any rights we have. And you are basically boxing people like me into “political points” and ”opinions and issues”never mind you basically said you agree with this law even though you have no clue what you are talking about with kids and sense of gender identity.

You know maybe you shouldn’t be telling a trans person they are nothing more than a polling statistic while caping does someone who would be doing this anyways no matter how it affects the vote.

People like you are at least a quarter of the reason I have spent my life loathing myself and convinced there was something wrong with myself when it s people that want to reduce me to a statistic that have a problem.

More importantly I don’t want to thread whine or tone police but if your not American with English as a second language maybe just maybe you shouldn’t be telling an American LGBT person who knows exactly what is going on because it affects my life directly that you know more than me. They would (and are) doing this im multiple states no matter what the polls are, and by your logic if the voters hated this bill he wouldn’t do this, and of you honestly believe that you really don’t know anything about American Republican Conservatives, and again maybe you just shouldn’t argue with people that both know what’s going on and is directly affected by anti-lgbt laws.

[Taco Bell Tower]

. Certain people aren't gonna like that first line.

EDIT: probably fake, so deleting in case 

 

Bitch ass Beef gets fooled by fake news.

Link pls, Beef? 🙏 Would like to distribute this

[BadAss2961]

From NepNep's word salad staff post:

Should you slap people for insulting your loved ones? Probably not. Was it illegal? Yes; Rock has a case if he wanted to pursue it. Is it understandable that Smith had a moment where he hit someone? Sure, human beings hit others for insults all the time, and as a highly-scrutinized celebrity, it's not surprising his threshold was reached tonight. Should a single slap be considered some watershed moment in the conversation about violence in America? Probably fucking not, considering the history and current status quo of America. Should every single illegal action that ever takes place be pursued by police involvement? Also probably fucking not. In an ironically more chill world, that thread would've been full of memes and maybe dropped off. Instead, staff are having to mill through nearly 100 reports and having to address this with a big statement because people who are constantly online can't just not be at 11 all the time.

In short, just go outside.

A) Maybe it wasn't full of memes because some posters went racial warrior over people having any opinion on a NON racial issue.

B) 

I'll never understand the amount of reporting that goes on at REE. Who the fuck has the time and the thin skin to take that place so seriously?

[Hap Shaughnessy]

. Certain people aren't gonna like that first line.

EDIT: probably fake, so deleting in case 

 

Bitch ass Beef gets fooled by fake news.

Link pls, Beef? 🙏 Would like to distribute this

Here you go:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FO-JD9rX0AMD_MJ?format=jpg&name=small

[Boredfrom]

Why does people keep falling for obvious shit? The fact there was no link was an obvious sign.

[Taco Bell Tower]

What will probably happen is that Smith will be banned from attending the Oscars for a year or two (but he would still be eligible for nominations). The real issue the Oscars are gonna contend with is that Smith interrupted the presentation and walked on stage. Had he slapped Rock off stage and out of the public eye, it would've been a non-story. But for reasons of decorum, the Oscars will lay down some sort of punishment.

Of course, had anyone less famous did this, it would likely be a lifetime ban from attending. But someone less famous would've been stopped before getting to the stage so.... Hmm

[benita]

Those morons really think Rock would fall all over himself like that?

He got smacked/humiliated/emasculated in front of millions for telling a joke.

He doesn't owe Will, or by extension Jada, a single fucking thing.

[Rman]

Those morons really think Rock would fall all over himself like that?

He got smacked/humiliated/emasculated in front of millions for telling a joke.

He doesn't owe Will, or by extension Jada, a single fucking thing.

Exactly.  these idiots really don't get it.  they really think a bad joke is the same thing as public assault on national TV.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/did-you-save-things-from-prior-relationships.567115/

I burned all the gifts my Exes have given me, don't see the point in keeping stuff from past relationships.

OP:

Burning stuff isn't that weird, we do it here all the time , I just used my exes stuff as kindling for a good old bonfire and then we roasted marshmallows over it

[ShutUp]

Yeah that didn’t happen.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Baldness as a disability

Chris Rock committed a hate crime last night.

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/post-84355865

I can’t honestly say I would have acted any differently if I was in Will’s shoes.

Hmm, I can pretty honestly say you would have.

[Polident Hive]

Did someone really write a fanfic apology as Chris Rock

[Jansen]

SILENCE, CRACKA has to be one of my favorite reee posts

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap.567099/page-13#post-84351075

My focus is on Smith because Rock is already getting rightfully dragged. Meanwhile a large contingent of this forum are defending Smith’s actions as warranted and acceptable - which is absolutely fucking insane.

He's going to get banned.

Hammer that report button cuz this one is somehow still alive 

[Taco Bell Tower]

In one night we saw someone throw a shitty joke that should have been discussed and addressed. Then it was immediately over shadowed by clear display of physical violence and a lack of control. Then, because it involved two celebrities, it somehow completely takes over the news cycle despite Russia actively bombing Ukrainian citizens. And to top it off, we now get to deal with insufferable takes on how it isn't a big thing and it's just funny, because people like anime and videogame memes about a slap.

It's an excellent example of societal decline.

NepNep

- Black people still being treated like shit the world over in general

"I sleep."

- One Black man slaps another Black man for insulting his wife

"SOCIETAL DECLINE."

Is that not my point though? Read my post. I'd prefer we were talking about the former rather than the latter. I can't help but feel this is enriched by you responding in a meme format too.

NepNep

Then you are free to post in, say, the thread regarding the racist treatment of Black immigrants trying to leave the Ukraine, for once.

[Jansen]

And yet you're here concern trolling and thread whining that people are giving this too much airtime in lieu of more important issues. Surely you can see how hypocritical you are being right now, and might want to make better use of your time.

Plax you are so fucked the queen of hypocrites hath spoken

[Boredfrom]

BCT really hates Ukraine.

[joeboy101]

Jesus Christ, that fucking board.

So, let's take a journey back to January this year. Slayven posts a thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/student-loses-rhodes-scholarship-after-revealed-she-lied-about-childhood-poverty-and-abuse-30k-a-year-private-school-skydiving-pic-in-yearbook.541709/

A 24-year-old Missouri woman who won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University has left the program following accusations that she misrepresented her life experience on her application form about being poor, according to The Times.

ERA being ERA, they have their usual fun being all misogynistic towards a woman identified as a legitimate target:
 

Never trust a person named Mackenzie.

How could anyone poor be named Mackenize Fierceton

Hahahaha she changed her name to Fierceton!?!?!

And that's what pisses me off the most.

She clearly didn't need the help.

That's the kind of name that keeps horses and and a vacation house.

first rule of scamming, never sit down and talk about the scamming

and she was just gonna ride that train on behalf of all the kids who've been in the foster care system.

Mackenzie ain't shit. Hope she enjoys this dishonorable L.

got_shame_march.gif

It on to her new life as a Republican politician!

Wow all she had to do was take "experimental tanning pills" and this would be the Soul Man movie.

I mean, the woman brought it all on herself right, why would we empathize wit- *record scratch*

https://www.resetera.com/threads/how-an-ivy-league-school-turned-against-a-student-the-new-yorker-cw-for-descriptions-of-physical-and-sexual-assault.567091/#post-84351805

In September, 2014, early in her junior year, Mackenzie drove to school and looked for her history teacher, who had become one of the few people in whom she felt comfortable confiding. "She showed up at my classroom door with a bloodied and battered face and then fainted," the teacher wrote. An ambulance was called, and Mackenzie was taken to Mercy Hospital, in St. Louis, and admitted into the pediatric intensive-care unit. Sherry McLain, a nurse assigned to her, told me, "She had two black eyes, and her hair was full of blood. She had bruises all over her body in different stages of healing—an obvious sign of child abuse."

Within a half hour, police officers arrived at the hospital. They learned that, the previous day, the history teacher had called Missouri's Child Abuse and Neglect hotline, because Mackenzie had revealed details to her about being sexually abused by Lovelace. (A hotline caseworker had notified the police.) When Mackenzie had come home that night, she said, her mother told her, "I know you have been talking," and pushed her down their staircase and struck her several times in the face.

In short, the girl was brutally abused and much of the previous 'lying' was her abusive mother and mother's boyfriend trying to ruin her.

And this tool has the nerve...

Honestly this is a pretty blatant example of how the timbre and the presentation of news can color people's reactions to that news to an almost absurd degree.

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/oscars-launch-formal-review-of-will-smith-after-chris-rock-slap-read-staff-post-update-smith-apologizes.567099/page-24#post-84356859

Uhhh, yeah, that image sits uneasy with me. I'm not concerned about the respectability angle of it though. Just hate seeing one brother (especially of that pedigree) put hands on another over some trivial shit in front of that large of an audience. Maybe it shouldn't bother me (and at first it didn't) but now I'm like, damn, he a real [expletive] for that. Especially when his actions are being framed as "protect black women" all over social media. Please, that is not "protecting" your lady. Fuck around and slap somebody like that in everyday life if you want to. You'll find out real quick. Especially as a black man.

Uh oh, this guy is at it again.  Let's see what the BCT have to say
Deepwater

you not concerned about the respectability cause you have no shame

NepNep

If this is the situation that you want to make a larger remark about regarding society's ills, to literally say that the social media fervor is a sign of that things are going downhill, beyond the fact people are simply terminally online, you do you. In general, I do my best not to let non-Black people's opinions of Black individuals matter all that much to how I feel about a given situation, especially if those individuals are white. We're human too and we deserve the freedom to fuck up, to get emotional, and to get checked, without people making every single instance some example of the White Man's Burden. We don't exist here to justify ourselves to people who obviously could not give a flying fuck about us, as exemplified by most people's post histories here.

NepNep

I am also curious how people reconcile this belief that only the rich ever gets away with assault, and that such behavior would likely earn you a criminal record outside of Hollywood, and yet we follow the gaming industry where much more anonymous, much less successful white folks get away with outright sexual assault on the daily with the repercussions most of the time being a goddamn office shift.

[Boredfrom]

Bill Cosby and Jussie Smollett say hi, Nephente.

[Boredfrom]

In general, I do my best not to let non-Black people's opinions of Black individuals matter all that much to how I feel about a given situation, especially if those individuals are white. 

Most people will say that you are a racist borderline black supremacist. I hope people remember this quote every time you try too imply you care about other minorities.

[clothedmacuser]

Lol, that's all mepenthe does is speculate how people REALLY feel about her