Quote: (09-28-2013 03:05 PM)Enigma Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2013 02:53 PM)TheSlayer Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2013 02:50 PM)Enigma Wrote:
Quote: (09-28-2013 02:16 PM)TheSlayer Wrote:
Look at someone like Charles Barkley on Inside the NBA. He gets ripped on the most by everyone and he laughs the loudest. Kanye would do well to learn from Sir Charles.
Charles Barkley is one of the first people to call racism. You think if he was talking about a serious subject regarding that and Ernie says "what do you know, you're an alcoholic", Chuck wouldn't wild out?
Come on. You're comparing making fun of Barkley's weight to calling him a child for talking about racism. Also, Charles was extremely arrogant during his playing days and would even shit on his teammates regularly in the media.
Not the best example for this situation.
Actually Barkley is one of the last people to call racism. When everybody was shitting on the Zimmerman verdict crying racism, he said he didn't think the verdict was racist.
You really think making fun of Kanye for this had racial overtones? If you do, then that's extremely absurd.
Barkley was an arrogant player and if you watch Inside the NBA they make fun of everything. Every single thing about Barkley is on the table not just his weight.
Edit: Kimmel made fun of Kanye for calling himself the most famous rockstar, meaning he went after his talent. On Inside the NBA everyone constantly makes fun of Barkley for being ringless and you don't see him lose his shit.
Charles talks about racism fairly often. I think he is fair about it and he's also a vocal Republican but he does bring it up. I doubt he would take it well if one of the guys tried to clown him while he was talking about it.
No, I don't think this was racist but I do think it was in poor taste to mock someone who is describing racism and write them off as a child.
Man, to be honest I don't really care about Kanye or Kimmel. To me it's one rich asshole getting mad at another rick comedian for making a joke about him. Kimmel didn't make fun of the racism discussion by Kanye. He specifically targeted the leather jogging pants and world's #1 rockstar comment. That's it. Looking for racial overtones and connotations is realllllly reaching low in this case.
Plus, what's the saying? "Never engage a comedian or something. You will always lose." All Kanye's bitching did is give Kimmel more material and he did the piano gag the next day making fun of Kanye's tweets.
I disagree about it being in poor taste when he makes fun of jogging in leather pants.
I will say this about Barkley, I watch a lot of him on Inside the NBA and Open Court. Talking about racism vs. crying racism are two different things. Barkley often talks about racism but he also says the onus is on black communities to take action and solve their own problems. He hates the I only want to be a singer/athlete phenomenon in inner cities.
Look I am not gonna derail this thread since it was about a joke. Let's keep it about that.