Also I'd like to add that it's one thing to want an apology, it's another to threaten to boycott that channel's debates and rabidly keep the press away from your daughter (who has proven to be capable of handling them herself, and is the main person involved in the comment) after you've already had the person responsible suspended and who will probably end up being fired, and he's already given you the apology.
THAT is overreacting.
but someone on MSNBC said it seemed like Hilary was pimping her daughter around because her daughter was calling up every important person she can to talk about how great her mom is. Hilary pretty much demanded an apology and kept talking about how offensive it is. Also she took it LITERALLY (like, she thought they were saying she prostituted her daughter).
yeah these aren't the same at all. you said nothing about threatening to boycott the channel or anything like that.
they are not saying the same thing as whormongering at all
this is the definition he meant (straight from websters dictionary)
When your daughter calls every member of The View as well as important political figures to tell them how great you are, it is not out of place to think that you are probably putting her up to it. If he had said "using" instead of "pimping", there wouldn't have been a problem, so yeah, he fucked up there, but I don't see ANY way that you can say he was trying to use it to mean the other meaning of pimping at all. There is NO reason to think he meant that definition, and I don't see how so many people think he did unless they're unaware it can be used the other way.
hgfffff agdafdafffffff.
check this out:
nigger
3. a victim of prejudice similar to that suffered by blacks; a person who is economically, politically, or socially disenfranchised.
Senator Clinton, how will you deal with society's niggers?
WHOA WHOA WHOA WHAT DO YOU MEAN IMPLICATIONS.
the secondary definition
directly derives from the first. you do not use reinterpretated slang to make political points. Yoko Ono made a song called "Women are the Nigger of the World", but you won't see people using that terminology outside of that song or among certain groups. people like you and I can call what she did pimping, we have no social responsibility. a media figure does have a responsibility not to refer to presidential candidates with offensive slang,
regardless of how accurate it is. it's incredibly shady and yes it even is PIMPING HER DAUGHTER OUT, but being offended at being told that instead of "It seems to me Senator Clinton is using her daughter's connections to garner votes, which is morally ambiguous behavior at best" is not some crazy overreaction.
it's highly offensive to say anyone is pimping someone else out in the negative connotation, which is why I use it to describe people on these forums. it's a really cruel thing to say! being angry at that isn't some overreaction.
Velfarre pretty much summed it up.
crushed by a CaRRot CuSine, the word has many references to what a PIMP does, it was not a reference to a pimps whoremongering.
This is like a sport announcer commenting on a running back and saying "Whoa, he was like an animal in todays game." and him calling up and saying "I want an apology for you calling me a wild savage beast."
except a sportscaster is expected to talk in slang, animal has nowhere near the connotation pimp does, and the various other reasons!
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