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AIBU?

To consider these lyrics borderline racist?

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CherryPeakerr · 16/06/2017 22:32

I follow a YouTuber who makes lots of music videos. She has a song about leonardo dicaprio and says -

He can whip me every night like Django...

Racist? Or just ignorant?

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Neolara · 16/06/2017 22:36

I don't understand that reference at all. (Possibly because I am old.....) Can you explain why you think this is racist..

CommonSenseIsNotAllThatCommon · 16/06/2017 22:39

Wasn't he in Django Unchained?

SailAwayWithMeHoney · 16/06/2017 22:40

I'm not old or I'm in denial and I don't understand the reference either... can you explain the context and why you think it is racist?

steff13 · 16/06/2017 22:43

I haven't seen Django Unchained, and I don't know the plot, other than I think Django was a slave. Leonardo DiCaprio was in the movie.

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 16/06/2017 22:43

Another one who has no idea what django means - I even googled it

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design

ecuse · 16/06/2017 22:44

I haven't seen the film but isn't LDC a very cruel and violent slave owner? And Django his black slave?

If so, it's perhaps not racist insofar as it's an insult directed at someone, but I'd suggest that level of crass insensitivity and making light of a subject like that is racist, yes.

AdalindSchade · 16/06/2017 22:44

I think referring to a white slaver and a black slave character as a 'sexy bondage' scenario is gross and obviously also racist

britbat23 · 16/06/2017 22:45

Django is a fictional character, originally a white cowboy in a spaghetti western, more recently reimagined by Quentin Tarantino as a freed slave (a black character).

Django is the one doing the whipping so not sure how this lyric can be interpreted as racist.

Instead let's talk about whether the S&M implied by the lyric is problematic! AIBU to think S&M is profoundly feminist?

NSEA · 16/06/2017 22:46

Idiotic lyric. Ignorantly racist. IMO.

CherryPeakerr · 16/06/2017 23:00

Django is a film based on black slaves in the south.

It's turning slaves being whipped into something sexual.

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LockedOutOfMN · 16/06/2017 23:01

NSEA
Idiotic lyric. Ignorantly racist. IMO.

I agree.

BumWad · 16/06/2017 23:02

Fucking hell its a song lyric get a grip will you

FlossyMooToo · 16/06/2017 23:11

Its a crass referance but its not racist.

Rappers talk of their hoes often but they are not sexist.

If they sang about black people desreve nothing because they are black and white people deserve everything because they are white then that would be viewed as racist.

FlossyMooToo · 16/06/2017 23:13

It's turning slaves being whipped into something sexual.

Victoria Wood turned a hostess trolly and the Womens weekly in to something sexual in a song.....whats your take on that?

CherryPeakerr · 16/06/2017 23:16

I suppose this person has a history of being racist and was a very active Trump supporter.

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CherryPeakerr · 16/06/2017 23:19

She's also dressed up as one of the slaves in the video.

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TheStoic · 16/06/2017 23:19

If they sang about black people desreve nothing because they are black and white people deserve everything because they are white then that would be viewed as racist.

Crikey, it has to be that obvious before you understand something is racist??

TheStoic · 16/06/2017 23:20

Is she black or white herself, OP?

CherryPeakerr · 16/06/2017 23:21

She's white.

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FlossyMooToo · 16/06/2017 23:21

Why are you watching a racist you tuber and giving them "clicks"?

Madonna depicted a black jeasus on the cross in her like a prayer video.....people dress up as all kinds of things.

If you are really that bothered stop watching and report to youtube.

FlossyMooToo · 16/06/2017 23:22

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MrsJayy · 16/06/2017 23:24

Soo you follow a you tuber who is a known racist and trump supporter not sure what you expect from her? Django wasn't a slave though he did whip leos character

FlossyMooToo · 16/06/2017 23:26

No doubt you will report me for that but it was worth the deletion. Go cry to mnhq.

notknownatthisaddress · 16/06/2017 23:27

Just found the video/song on youtube. It's bleedin' awful!!!!!!!

It's Trisha Paytas.

Look it up PMSL! grin

If I was Leo and I saw it, I'd get a restraining order.

The lyrics are a bit racist.

notknownatthisaddress · 16/06/2017 23:27

Just found the video/song on youtube. It's bleedin' awful!!!!!!!

It's Trisha Paytas.

Look it up PMSL! grin

If I was Leo and I saw it, I'd get a restraining order.

The lyrics are a bit racist.

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