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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Feb 25, 2007 9:01:02 GMT -5
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Post by Andrew is Good on Feb 25, 2007 12:44:59 GMT -5
Ummm, what were the racist remarks. I know that racism was used back in the day to garner heat (because back then, people didn't get offended that easily and racism was blamed on the wrestler, and not the wrestling organization).
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Hiroshi Hase
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Feb 25, 2007 13:14:23 GMT -5
Ummm, what were the racist remarks. I know that racism was used back in the day to garner heat (because back then, people didn't get offended that easily and racism was blamed on the wrestler, and not the wrestling organization). I think the comment was "brown clown", which couldn't be said in this day and age, back then things indeed were easier to get away with. |
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Post by Kerry Von Erich is my hero on Feb 25, 2007 13:49:27 GMT -5
The late 70's/early 80's were less politically correct than it is today
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Post by darthpipes on Feb 25, 2007 15:29:32 GMT -5
I don't think you would hear them say "brown clown" now but the WWE can still get pretty bad with racist remarks. HHH and Orton saying how "those kind of people" (Booker T and Shelton Benjamin) didn't get title shots. Vince is huge on lazy stereotyping.
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Post by T Vang is a HO-DADDY~! on Feb 25, 2007 15:47:17 GMT -5
He also tells him to shine his shoes and calls him "boy"...which taken at face value might not appear racist but when you see that he's saying it to a black man it really seems like it.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Feb 25, 2007 15:53:06 GMT -5
Yea, the 'Boy' comment threw me off guard. But then when I heard the 'Brown clown' comment...I was like, "damn!"
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Post by Andrew is Good on Feb 25, 2007 15:53:20 GMT -5
He also tells him to shine his shoes and calls him "boy"...which taken at face value might not appear racist but when you see that he's saying it to a black man it really seems like it. Yeah, but that's really really really nitpikcing. I don't know. Back in the day, racism was used to get heat. And it wasn't like a white babyface was saying this to a black heel. Usually it was the white heel making fun of the black babyface, in which the black babyface would be cheered and they would want him to beat down the white heel because of that. So it was almost showing that morally, it's wrong to be racist as only the bad people are racist, if you get what I'm saying. |
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Post by Ultimo Chocula on Feb 25, 2007 17:06:15 GMT -5
I'm more concerned with Vince's fascination with Atlas posing.
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Feb 25, 2007 17:08:28 GMT -5
Did you see the way Vince gawks at him with those bedroom eyes?
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Post by darthpipes on Feb 25, 2007 23:44:48 GMT -5
Come on, you know Vince's fetish for big men. I've always thought Vince was a closet homosexual. His big man fetish and his desire to have men kiss his bare ass...
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Post by Will Has 'Til Five, Ref on Feb 26, 2007 10:45:05 GMT -5
Did you see the way Vince gawks at him with those bedroom eyes? He was probably thinking "Once I take over the company from Dad I'm going to find me a large piece of hot man chocolate even if it takes me, let's say, thirty years and then I'm going to revive a dead federation and make him champion and run non-stop video segments about how rough his life was growing up and push him to the moon, no matter how un-over he is and how lousy his promo skills are. He can call someone a bastard in his Cindy Brady-like voice and everyone can make fun of it for all I care." |
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