“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader said on Fox News Sunday.
“I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living,” the House minority leader said on Fox News Sunday.
So you missed the entire history of the contemporary black American Shakur family, where the name was adopted by Black Panther James Coston as part of his conversion to Islam after Malcolm X’s assassination? Where that others in the Panthers choose to adopt that name for themselves as a sign of solidarity, respect, and commitment to black liberation? Where Tupac’s mother changed her name for this reason, and changed her son’s name as well.
The only thing linking Jeffries’s moniker and the Shakur family name is that AIPAC and Tupac end in the same three letters. It both assigns a very specific radical revolutionary name to an opponent, which in and of itself is disrespectful to the name and the family, but then does so simply because Jeffries is black, because none of the white people in Congress that take money from AIPAC are called “AIPAC Shakur”.
There’s really not a single legitimate reason to use the moniker, and there are at least 2 reasons not to.
To be clear, Jeffries deserve an insult. Using Shakur as part of the insult is insulting to the Shakurs. Jeffries has not earned that name.
So only the definition that you prefer is valid. Not the actual meaning of the word.
Who gets to decide what words mean?
Do you also get bent out of shape when someone says Uncle Tom? Is that not insulting to historical Toms? This is your argument.
Maybe wait for the family to tell people that they are offended instead of you pretending to be offended for them.
Virtue signaling – Expressing outrage to demonstrate one’s moral superiority or social awareness.
Vicarious offense-taking – Taking offense on behalf of someone else, particularly when that person isn’t offended.
Manufactured outrage – Deliberately pretending to be offended to create controversy.
You’re working off some random definition he found on some bullshit name site to argue why he should not just ignore the family that made the name famous, but take it away from them. Let’s not pretend like you’re not using “AIPAC Shakur” as a loose Tupac reference.
And now you’re likening being against this to somehow also thinking referring to codifying fictional character must mean it’s an insult to all people named Tom? You know that’s not an equivalent situation.
It’s possible to be personally offended by someone being so fucking obtuse and neckbeardy about justifying a shitty thing they said. Your amorality is not a good enough defense, and it’s downright stupid to not consider how trying to rip away a famous name from a famous family just so you can use a racially coded insult is perfectly okay.
It would have been infinitely more respectable if you demonstrated the capacity to take a step back and see what the mistake was rather than doubling down off the back of some stupid baby name meaning site as if it’s a legitimate source.
Jeffries is called AIPAC Shakur because he’s a corporate and AIPAC sellout and because he’s always doing goofy middle school level raps in his speeches.
I don’t know what to tell you but being so sensitive over something so innocuous is silly.
So the meaning of a word is how it’s used. This case with Jefferies, the meaning of the word is “famous black man like Tupac”. That’s the meaning. We know this because the person assigning it to him is not speaking in Arabic, and not applying the same moniker to white people.
So even in that basis alone, the moniker may as well be “AIPAC Blackman”. Because that’s literally the extent of thought being put into it.
The problem is that Tupac’s name is not just some accident of history. It is a deliberate choice. Therefore it comes with meaning.
Meaning is constructed. It’s not something found in a dictionary, it’s a participatory process.
This is true for plenty of other names: Hitler, Trump, Gandhi, etc. Imagine calling JD Vance’s wife “A Hot Ma Gandhi”. Not only is it offensive simply by virtue of the dehumanization that comes from decontextualizing a name based on ethnicity or race and just applying a famous name of one member of that community to another (like calling all Chinese people Lee or Ching), but it’s ALSO applying a name with the baggage if honor to a person who doesn’t deserve that honor.
I wouldn’t be offended on behalf of the Gandhi family. I would just find it offensive and ignorant.
This is like that. I am not upset on behalf of the Shakur’s, I am upset as me, because it’s an ignorant and offensive name for all of these reasons. And you defending it is a lot like the good old boys saying “what are you some kind of Indian lover? If they don’t like it let them come tell me to my face that they don’t like it”. It’s not a good look
You do go through so much effort to be offended.
You’re really trying hard to twist something that isn’t meant to be a racial insult into one.
Jeffries likes to rap in public events so the AIPAC Shakur is more directly making fun of his sold out nature plus making fun of how bad of a rapper he is. As in, he’s a fake Tupac.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him rapping in public events. Quoting hip-hop lyrics, yes, but not actually trying to rap. If that’s the reference, then yeah, that’s a whoosh on my part. I would love to see a video of Jeffries rapping
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZLXje0iBkKc?is=qcdR6hMvFomUuAxa
He likes rapping platitudes but always forgets to include his AIPAC handlers in his rhymes.
Rhyming days of the week is, uh, wow. Fucking contrived news coverage. It’s as though they know the only people watching them are old white people who think a black person listing days of the week is rapping
What a stupid thing to double down on.