• Queen HawlSera
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    144 months ago

    DEI has become the socially-acceptable way to say the N-Word

    And claiming someone is a DEI-Hire or “Won because of DEI”, has become the polite way to say that a black person’s accomplishments are invalid due to them being black.

  • 2ugly2live
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    74 months ago

    Please don’t make listening to Beyonce an act of rebellion. I’m not strong enough.

  • @[email protected]
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    264 months ago

    (White person gets a job or wins an award)

    GOP: I see no racism here

    (Anyone but a white person gets a job or wins an award)

    GOP: Reverse racism!!!

    • @[email protected]
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      114 months ago

      This is basically their “all fronts” approach to walk back perceptions. It’s about controlling the narrative so that it’s ingrained in the psyche that there’s an airs of illegitimacy around anything a minority does.

      It’s entirely rooted in their supremacist playbook.

  • @[email protected]
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    204 months ago

    I’m not really a fan of hers, but I’m pretty certain she won a Grammy because she’s fucking Beyonce not because she’s black.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      54 months ago

      These white supremacists are thrown into confusion whenever a white person isn’t chosen for anything at all. Which would just be pathetic, but they run the country so it’s a problem.

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    4 months ago

    Who cares? Of course they are going to say ridiculous things, that’s what they do. And the Grammys are stupid bullshit where mascots like beyoncé get to claim credit for the work actual musicians did. It isn’t dei, just capitalism. I don’t think beyoncé ever wrote a song in her life, so what is the award for being the best singer? Because she’s not that either…

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        Beyonce like many big pop artists gets a songwriting credit if she performs on the song. This is standard as it gets you a cut of 5e sales. That being said, I have a hard time believing someone else wrote Lemonade.

        • celeste
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          24 months ago

          I was curious if there was an industry reason why people don’t believe she participates in writing her songs, since I don’t know much about her or the industry.

          https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/112b88u/a_few_times_beyonce_claimed_to_have_written_songs/

          The conversation here is interesting, and now I know very slightly more than I did! I do still feel like if she added one word to all of those songs, she’s written at least one total song, haha. Plus the stuff that’s more personal.

          edit: i meant to say i genuinely appreciate your response

          • @[email protected]
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            34 months ago

            There’s a guy who has writing credit on “Uptown Funk” because he came up with one line “Don’t believe me? Just watch!” which is the hook. Sometimes that little contribution is what makes it work

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      I have a hard time believing “Lemonade” an album about her husband’s infidelity didn’t involve her contributions at the very least.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        You don’t have to believe anything. Go look up the credits. Beyoncé was probably the least talented out of dozens of people who made that album, and she did not write any song unless you count vanity credits.

  • @[email protected]
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    84 months ago

    The Grammys are awards for whoever spent the most money on recording and marketing anyway. They have little to do with any kind of artistic or technical merit or musicianship. Maybe never did.

  • IninewCrow
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    04 months ago

    America doesn’t have a problem … America is relapsing

  • shoulderoforion
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    64 months ago

    “America has a problem?” , Trump and his minions are feeding every Democratic institution into the woodchipper. American has cut off tens/hundreds of millions of real live Human beings, all across the world from foreign aid consisting of life sustaining food, clean water, and medications, the death toll will be astronomical.

    We’re posting “articles” about what one dipshit said about Beyonce?

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      It’s because race and politics are historically intrinsically tied in America, and DEI is essentially the new n word as coopted by racist bigots.

      I have no problem with this being considered politics as it’s parallel dehumanization and delegitimization tactics to those used in Nazi Germany.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        It’s politics because it’s blatant racism from a public figure but all political events are not created equal. Engaging with toxic (but ultimately shallow) headlines like this is amplifying the Flood of Shit.

        Your outrage is a smoke screen keeping the actual dismantling of democracy out of the public eye.

        I’d even go so far as to say too much political gravity is conceded to tariffs and other international Trump panic. America loses credibility but tariffs can be rescinded and alliances slowly rebuilt. It’s not so easy to regain control of a government with no opposition after a political purge.

        Trump’s last term quietly expanded ICE resources in one forgettable 24 hour news cycle. Now we’re seeing how they use the GOP Gestapo as a federal police force against undesirables. People need to see that, but it won’t get through their (sometimes literal) Trump content filter.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      I believe ‘America Has a Problem’ is in the title because it’s the title of a song written by Beyonce. It’s just a reference that’s also relevant.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 months ago

    Racist Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) has joined the disproportionately vocal minority of racists who were unimpressed by Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards last Sunday because she’s black.

    Write it like the truth, because anything else downplays how awful these people are.

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    4 months ago

    When someone who’s never accomplished anything impressive sees someone who has, if they’re a piece of shit, their reaction is to attack that person.

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    so fucking crazy and illogical that it’s just a distraction and not real

    “look over here while we implement Project 2025! Beyonce! DEI! What’s your opinion?! Let’s engage in a racist and pointless debate about whether Beyonce deserves singing accolades while we ready the wall for women who get abortions.”

  • Elaine Cortez
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    64 months ago

    Or maybe she’s really good and worked hard to deserve that grammy. Congratulations Beyoncé!! 😃

  • @[email protected]
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    204 months ago

    DEI is the reason I have a pimple on my face. It’s the reason why it’s only a slightly nice day. It’s because of DEI that that I have an itch in a hard fo reach place on my back. It’s because of DEI I didn’t properly time that roll in Dark Souls. It’s because of DEI my wife is allergic to polen.

    And so on, and ao forth. What’s your X reason to blame DEI?

  • @[email protected]
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    104 months ago

    It’s hard to imagine anyone more corporate than Beyonce: a soulless, money-driven try-hard record-company employee of the month.