I just find parroting of the most base, empty-headed, friviolous, hedonistic modes of western life ugly and not worth celebrating, but definitely worth condemning. And this is what Jay Sean and his ilk represent to me.

Slackness.

i agreed with him, didnt i? and disapprove is convenient shorthand instead of the tedious exactness of “the corrupted, decadent, immoral, sodom and gomorrah lifestyle of the modern westerner..”

i did. i said half of him.

Hyperbole is a very useful literary device you know?

i agree. this is why i used it.

He has every right to disapprove of the (sometimes) objectionable lyrics in mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop. It’s a concern that many people from many movements (including feminists and Black advocacy groups) happen to share. Trying to dismiss it as “Taliban-esque” is just lazy and unreflective.

Moreover, you clearly didn’t get the sarcasm implied when he said he was being half serious. Hyperbole is a very useful literary device you know?

it never ceases to amuse me how those who find nuance, semantics, culture and history in indian practices like dowry, casteism, and the otherwise horrible treatment of a large swath of women and underprivileged suddenly become ardent and absolute defenders of women’s rights when it comes to taliban.

for the corrupted, decadent, immoral, sodom and gomorrah lifestyle of the modern westerner.. yes sounds like simple, um, disapproval to me too.

Yes, because being disapproving of club culture is what makes the Taliban bad. It’s not the strapping bombs to their chests and blowing up buses, the treating women like chattel, or the killing everyone who doesn’t subscribe to their absurdly hardline and retrograde brand of Islam that makes them bad, but their disapproval of people getting their drink on and their smoke on and then going home with something to poke on.

Yes.

no worries, there is a place in the taliban for you. at least for half of you.

Oh I wasn’t referring to any Desi pride thing. I was just referring to how awesome and manly it would be if we all walked around sporting beards and handlebar mustaches.

It’s what Teddy Roosevelt would do.