You are why the left has made the progress they have; congratulations! Communism in most countries pit the poor against the rich; they couldn’t do that here, because the poor admire and want to someday be the rich. In the 50’s they chose a new tactic— racism! It started with drumming up a common stigma against any who used certain words, then any who made comments against certain groups.. then they just became more easily offended, and widened the groups to be all of their fellow travelers... and now we are where we are. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. But when communists infiltrate every aspect of our government and society, they will hurt me. And you too.
So if I don’t want to be “death con 3’d” I’m a communist? When you’ve endured all the sh!t I have, you can preach to me about sticks and stones. I’ve gotten a few of those, too, though no bones broken yet. If Con Ye is determined to offend me, I’ll oblige him. He’s not doing it to unite us all in brotherhood. He’s doing it to regain some street cred in the ‘hood, which is not what a “creative genius” who marches to his own drummer ought to be doing. I can’t tell him how to do his job, but doing it this way loses my respect.
There is real racism. There is real Jew hatred. The two are related, different forms of bigotry. Expanding the definition to include any damned thing is what’s destructive, because thus cheapened, it ceases to hold any potency. There are racists who do not wear klan hoods and burn crosses. But Roseanne was definitely not one of them. There are anti-Semites who don’t sport swastikas and goose step, and Kanye has decided to pass for one of them to boost his record sales. That’s despicable.