[Beren]

It's nice to know that anytime I happen to throw a shoe I'm importing Arab behaviour, which is far worse than if I were a terrorist.

I agree that American democracy is supposed to be different though, especially if we take it into account that they throw their shoes at an image while the real person is not even there.

[Godstud]

Throwing a shoe is rude in most cultures, and even in Buddhism is seen as quite the insult. You want to really insult someone? Take off your shoe and hit them with it in SE Asia.

[noir]

I agree that American democracy is supposed to be different though, especially if we take it into account that they throw their shoes at an image while the real person is not even there.

The Muslims are not shy away from expressing deranged anger against a person who is not even there either. Rubbing shoulders with Muslim hate culture in the campuses eroded American democratic values.


Hate culture, an Indian minister speech at UN, this is Pakistanis reaction.

[Beren]

The Muslims are not shy away from expressing deranged anger against a person who is not even there either.

Sure, I'd find it more American if they threw their shoes directly at Trump.

However, I'm just wondering if how all this is related to Eminem and his fans. Did they throw shoes too?

[noir]

Relate to Trump. Now it's Hate Trump thread

[Beren]

Relate to Trump. Now it's Hate Trump thread

It's not a Hate Trump Thread, it's a Hate Arabs/Islam Thread, because you transform all threads you participate in into that.

[noir]

Ah, ok.

[Deutschmania]

Back on topic , I would say that if Eminem were to lose a percentage of his fan base over his strong political sentiments he would have alienated them before now , when he came out against then president George W. Bush , during the Iraq war . http://www.mtv.com/news/1493010/eminems-video-for-anti-bush-song-mosh-hits-the-internet/ I remember first overhearing this song of his at a neighbor's outdoor Fourth of July party . So I think that here in the U.S.A. people feel that they can celebrate the nation while still denigrating the head of state . As one time U.S. president , Theodore Roosevelt once put it . ,

[Hong Wu]

Sorry for the necro-post but this is pretty epic and perhaps not worthy of a new thread.

Eminem attacks Trump, the media praises him but his album bombs.

Kanye refuses to attack Trump (sort of endorses him), the media attacks him and some bad reviews of his new EP are released. But the top 7 tracks on iTunes and Spotify were all Kanye West after his album came out and it's selling well (his EP has 7 songs on it).

This is what some people are calling the "Trump curse."

[Beren]

The Trumps and the Wests are a perfect match.

[Hong Wu]

It reminds me of a joke I read on reddit. It went something like this: "Kanye West fans fear that Kanye's endorsement of Trump will harm his carefully cultivated reputation as a power-mad narcissist."

[Beren]

There's something Kanye will never forgive nor forget: