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White Flight- a new piece of art from Sly and Reggie

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Huguenot

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Sly and Reggie aren't bright enough to make their point without drawing racial stereotypes, neither are they bright enough to realize that they're drawing their conclusions based on 1970s social memes.


I've no doubt they consider themselves part of the 'solution' to racial integration - along with their cliched acquisition of 'black' music - but in perpetuating outdated tribalism they're part of the problem.


The peculiar book/manifesto they unravel through the video is typically a weapon of extremist organizations - from Mein Kampf, through the Little Red Book to the NRA's hate list.


It's possible they're using it ironically, but since nothing they've done to date (including using street noise as a weapon) suggests they have the intellect for such nuance, I assume that they've reached the tipping point between activist and pillock.

Annette Curtain

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Unlike Ant & Dec (Ant always on the left) I don't know who's who with S & R. (I think the one with the Shredded Wheat hair is Reginald) Though to be honest, I don't really care, as they're as friggin tedious as each other.


I actually listened and watched the whole thing through. ( only turned it off once for a breather )


So, a few things:


Was "the one on the mic" trying to sound like Harry Hill ?


Can I have my 2.58 seconds of my wasted life back please ?


Is this what 2 middle aged blokes "do" when their wives go out ?



To sum up.

I'd rather drill holes and attach piano wire into my teeth, jam it into the mains & flick the switch - than watch/listen to that cark again. Are these two actually serious or am I missing the joke. And when people of East Dulwich mention S&R I honestly pretend I've never heard of them.


Though one good thing.

I'll keep it on stand-by for when my teenage son says "you're such an embarrassing parent"


To which i'll be able to repy "Yeah, really! take a look at these 2 then & get back to me"


And for that i'm greatful.

RosieH

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Huguenot Wrote:

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> The peculiar book/manifesto they unravel through

> the video is typically a weapon of extremist

> organizations - from Mein Kampf, through the

> Little Red Book to the NRA's hate list.


I call Godwin's - can I have my lolly?

Jeremy

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To be honest I wouldn't personally listen to S&R, but it really does surprise me that people are so quick to criticise what they're doing with such venom. I kind of hope that in a few years time, I'll be a middle-aged dad making music and embarrassing my kids too.


And I'm a little baffled by Huguenot's accusations. If the point they're making is that racial segregation is worsening due to white middle classes leaving the cities... maybe you don't agree with that, but there are better ways to discuss it than silly taunts of nazism.

maxxi

maxxi

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> To be honest I wouldn't personally listen to S&R


Me either - and it's the times when they make sure I have no choice in the matter that really ticks me off about this pair of fuck nuts.


>it really does surprise me that people are so quick to criticise what they're doing with such venom.


As long as they stay playing in their bedrooms my fangs remain retracted.

Huguenot

Huguenot

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I'm not saying they're Nazis, I'm saying they're idiots, and that you cannot escape the symbology associated with little books of hate.


Their politics is a particular mixture of schoolboy posing founded on binary interpretations of social interactions that are 30 years out of date.


By persisting in rolling these half baked aphorisms out, they are part of the problem, not the solution.


The only white privilege that their lyrics speak to is the one tossed around by people with an IQ of less than 60. The real white privilege is far more nuanced and complicated than that. It is also foolish to speak to white privilege in deprived working class areas of London where skin colour is irrelevant in the face of crashing poverty.


Either way I had to suffer years of listening to these lunatics driving around ED on a Saturday afternoon with their volume cranked up to 'assault'.

Jeremy

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Huguenot Wrote:

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> you cannot escape the symbology

> associated with little books of hate.


Wasn't the cardboard book thing supposed to be an ironic poke at our perceived differences? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's sophisticated or insightful, but I don't see the hatred there.


I can understand the PA-in-a-truck getting on peoples nerves though.

Otta

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Jeremy Wrote:

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> To be honest I wouldn't personally listen to S&R,

> but it really does surprise me that people are so

> quick to criticise what they're doing with such

> venom. I kind of hope that in a few years time,

> I'll be a middle-aged dad making music and

> embarrassing my kids too.



I may be biased, but I rather think the music you nake wilk be a bit more... like music than this particular piece of art.


However, I suspect that S&L like many a genius before them are merely unappreciated in their own lifetimes. I'm sure the future will be based on their work, much like Wikd Stallions.

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