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It sounds like the two of you have different coping strategies for trauma and that those two coping strategies are incompatible. You can’t make her do anything. Either she can be there for you the way you need her to, or she can’t.

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

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

only the definition that you prefer is valid. Not the actual meaning of the word

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

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.

Yes, and people calling him AIPAC Shakur are displaying their ignorance of the black power movement and honestly it’s just gross

Giving Jeffries the surname “Shakur” is an insult to the Shakur family. Look them up. The name is a political statement.

If only there was a Democrat president who had access to the full unredacted Epstein evidence and could have directed his DOJ to go after the criminals with the evidence therein!

It’s the economy, stupid