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Originally Posted by blueash
Originally Posted by YeOldeCurmudgeon View Post
Rap is crap ... I admit I dislike it. I don't listen but what I have heard of it, is that it's simply a beat with some "wise ass" lyrics that are not musical at all, just someone shouting something that is obscene or defiant -- and then you have the stupid performers grabbing their crotch. That gesture often has nothing to do with what they're shouting about. What do younger people find appealing about it? To me it seems it's a protest against music, against harmony because it's tone deaf, which is the opposite of music. Sure, our music sometimes became more noise than music, too -- think the acid rock of Pink Floyd. I went to a Pink Floyd concert in the early-70's and sat near the front row and it was so loud I thought my ear drums were going to burst and I had to move back it was so painful. Music is supposed to soothe the savage beast. Rap just brings it out.
What, did I hit a nerve? The difference is that a poster who is YeOldeCurmudgeon at least admits that their opinion is less than informed. You present yourself as the voice of wisdom and reason while spouting hate too often and defending it as humor. I am fairly certain that your patients who were not white, straight, and cis, were not treated with the same respect as those that met your requirements. You cannot get that kind of pre- judging to not influence your behavior. Why you even need to write "black" and stick in in quotes. I wonder if we were together you'd make cute little air quotes instead.
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Not at all. And you can rest assured that all patients regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation were treated equally and professionally. If we're slinging mud, did you treat your conservative or religious patients with the same respect?
The only topic that comes close to me "spouting hate" relates to the events of 9/11/01, and I have extremely good reasons for feeling the way I do. No amount of ecumenical kumbaya will ever change that.
Aside from that, I'm willing to bet we have tons more in common than these petty differences. So truce??????