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"Compare Richard Pryor to Chris Rock: they both say fuck; they both say nigger, but the effect is totally different because the context is different and the intention is different. Chris Rock took the form but the content is completely changed, because Pryor came out of a different culture, a mass movement radical culture. On the radio, the first shock jock, that guy out in Colorado who was killed, wasn't even funny or incisive from jump. He was just disgusting, the forward edge of the general exhaustion, a degraded expression of a degraded culture. He came out of a backlash culture, a right wing culture. But it paid, so it flourished, because it also came out of a hyper-corporate culture. Now the only time it creeps up on anyone that there's something really degraded about all this is when it's applied to their wife, their daughter, but that's very particular."
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SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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