ARGH STOP

For the love of all that is good, Australia, would you please stop with the slippery slope argument? I don’t know what else to say. We need as a country to not greet every social issue that crops up with an overwhelming

BUT WHERE DO YOU DRAW THE LINE THE LINE HAS TO BE THERE OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE NO LINE EVERYONE WILL DO EVERYTHING

Dude! There will always be a line! That’s how society- especially Australian society- works. It will just, ideally, be in a more humane and inclusive position. I have to assume you are working off the assumption that society is a stagnant thing? It’s not. It’s going to keep changing and breaking and we’re going to have to keep fixing it, which means we’re going to be constantly re-establishing where the lines are. I don’t know what to tell you. It’s going to be okay. More okay, in fact, if you will just relinquish your weird attachment to the way things are at this brief moment in history and let us break some ground here and keep up with who we've become and who we're going to be.

I love people. But when you are willfully ignorant like this it’s confusing. It makes me angry at you and admittedly somewhat dismissive of who you are as a person.

In conclusion I would like to, I don’t know, ban the slippery slope argument from all political and social discourse because it is stupid and holds no merit whatsoever and it derails everything and makes me spend an unreasonable amount of time thinking about how stupid the slippery slope argument is. Stop. Shhhhh.

Other people say these things better than I do. And who am I raging against? Not likely anyone who follows me on twitter and certainly no one who would come across my “blog”.

Ugh. I need to stop reading the Internet.

TOO LONG TO TWEET

I feel like saying we shouldn't export hip hop to other cultures because they don't have the same understanding of it that educated people do might be a little, er, condescending. For one, it's not like the culture is imported into a vacuum. What I have observed in China and Indonesia is that yes, Western popular culture is a big part of local popular culture but they usually project local values onto Western media- it's not like they absorb everything without question. And I am uncomfortable dictating what kind of music one culture I am not a part of should be making and another culture I am not a part of should be consuming.

Either way- of the two ways I see this argument going, I am more in favour of education than censorship.

I'm not saying that the common misogynistic/homophobic stuff is okay. I really don't think it is. I don't know what to do about this except to remain critical/be supportive of artists that go against the grain (eg Frank Ocean?) and a greater diversity of voices (more womenz). I'm not sure I'm the best person to make this argument as my understanding of hip hop and hip hop culture is not very deep.

You bring up an interesting point, though. And I will add "Influence of American hip hop on Chinese culture" to my list of potential honours topics. Surprisingly, not much research has been done on it already.

Also, what is the documentary? I want to watch it! I can never get enough media/identity politics.